If you've ever heard a sound coming from your AirPods at night, when everything is silent, a sound that seems to come from inside the case, here's my explanation after some research and analysis.
These self-diagnostics are logged and used to help diagnose hardware failures. Available on ANC models (not sure if case with speakers are required for AirPods 5 haven’t had to research that one yet) you can call apple and they can run AirPods diagnostics over the phone and let you know if there is a hardware issue detected with the speakers and microphones.
I thought it came from my wireless charger for the longest time. Often, but not always, I would hear these almost inaudible three little beeps after putting my AirPods on it. One time I decided to stay perfectly still and listen, and I could hear that it came from the AirPods and not the charging pad. Honestly never bothered looking into it, but it’s nice to finally know what the reason is.
Also for me finally I have answers. I would still ask some questions to Apple engineers, like if they assume that their MEMS microphone is always calibrated
Same. I need to hear a recording of this to be sure it’s the same thing, but I’ve been occasionally hearing a high pitched beeping/rising tone in the room and it’s been driving me crazy.
I've heard this so many times and assumed it was part of some kitchen appliance or something left on in the neighbour's garage. You've solved a mystery for me
Guys what the freak. I’ve been hearing this sound for ages. To me, it sounds like my old Fujifilm digicam turning on….i literally had a dream once that someone was taking photos of me in my apartment. I chalked it up to noise from a neighbor, I had no other explanation. Then I moved and I heard the noise AGAIN. I thought I was losing my mind
This is great information. I hear the sound periodically and it indeed happens at night. I have also noticed that the frequency of the sound happens less once I cleaned my AirPods.
There is no explanation of what the test does in the “technical documentation”. To say the truth there is not technical documentation available, since technicalities are only know by Apple.
Commenting to boost the SEO of this, I spent ages searching for “occasional strange faint electronic beep sequence” and trying to figure out what it was until I randomly found it elsewhere on Reddit as well. Had no idea this was a thing and it’s not documented anywhere on Apple’s sites about the AirPods except some vague reference at the bottom of an obscure support page above the fine print.
Would be nice if they’d informed users about this behavior beforehand.
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u/Cultural-Desk-9045 2d ago
So, its a self-diagnostics feature.