If we can conceive the latest rumours on Twitter , the launch of the second - generation AirPods Pro has been pushed back from an expected second quarter to the third quarter of 2022 . In other words , next autumn .

The info comes from the Twitter user FrontTron . The tech leaker is n’t especially well known – they do n’t look in AppleTrack’ssource leaderboard , even in the section for “ modified record ” – but was early to reveal the date of thethird - contemporaries AirPods .

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AirPods 3 : – 2021 Q3 ✅

AirPods Pro 2 : – At least 2022 Q2 ❎ ➡ ️ Changed to 2022 Q3https://t.co/YaP39JoC0 MT

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FrontTron simply quotes their own original prognostication and puts a hybridizing next to the antecedently exact Q2 prognosis . It is n’t clear , therefore , if the leaker ’s rootage but draw it wrong – in other word , it ’s the prediction that has “ interchange ” , rather than the launch schedule – or if Apple has actually alter its plans .

Either way , it ’s an astonishingly farseeing wait between generations of a successful intersection . Theoriginal AirPods Procame out in the autumn of 2019 ; a Q3 2022 launching would mean a gap of three years .

So far , few details about the AirPods Pro 2 have leaked , but fit in to Bloomberg ’s Apple expert Mark Gurman , we ’ll be getting a new design without come out fore . There are also rumours of updated sensors , which could be used to keep good track of how much we move , among other things .

In all likelihood , we can anticipate more rumours about the Modern headphones to emerge in the coming months . you could keep up with the belated rumours with ournew AirPods Prohub .

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This clause originally appeared onMacworld Sweden . Translation ( usingDeepL ) and additional reporting by David Price .