Comment by ffsm8
5 hours ago
Personally the thing that really surprised me about mine was the amount of condense water builds up under the pads when I'm wearing it over a workday.
My noise cancelling started to go flaky until I stumbled upon that - after I've dried it off after every use and stopped using the "case" /store pads separately from headphone things improved a lot again.
It feels like a serious design issue, I'm really confused why so few people talk about it, but I guess it's because most are just casual users of the headphones with people only wearing it a few minutes a day... And the water only really build up when you're wearing it several hours without taking it off
Yeah, the condensation issue was a problem for me too. I ended up having to take them in for repair to Apple several times.
The noise cancellation went flakey, the auto-switching went flakey, they would crash [1] if lifted one cup from the side of my head. Apple ended up replacing them completely, but then the new pair eventually developed all the same faults.
I hope some of these are addressed in the new models, because despite all this I really enjoy them as headphones.
[1] Playing audio would stop, the noise cancellation would shut off, they would disconnect from my phone, seemingly reboot, then reconnect again.
Yeah, between the weight, no real power‑off, they feel like way too much hassle for something this expensive. Kinda wild that this "refresh" doesn’t really fix any of that