Change These AirPods Settings to Improve Their Sound and Fix Your iPhone Audio Issues

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more.

You can improve the audio of your AirPods by changing a few settings in your iPhone. These settings can improve the audio of other Apple headphones as well, including many Beats models. All you need is one of the compatible models, most recent ones will work, as well as a fairly recent iPhone or iPad.

What can these changes do? Well, if you find it difficult to understand others when you're on a phone call or the music just doesn't sound right to you, these settings will let you adjust both. You can also adjust features like Transparency and Adaptive Audio modes, to help tailor the audio to your ...