<story><title>Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/yfc5xw/airpods_max_active_noise_cancelation_confirmed_to/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c7b</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t be the first time that Apple is nerfing perfectly well-working hardware.&lt;p&gt;I never thought about Airpod updates, but according to their site they are applied automatically if you&amp;#x27;re in the vicinity of an iPhone&amp;#x2F;iPad&amp;#x2F;Mac and they&amp;#x27;re being charged. Does anyone know more details about it &amp;#x2F; how to prevent updates? Do you need to keep them away from Apple devices while charging? Does it matter whether they&amp;#x27;re paired via Bluetooth?</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/yfc5xw/airpods_max_active_noise_cancelation_confirmed_to/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>A better link directly to the rumor: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;airpods&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;yfc5xw&amp;#x2F;airpods_max_active_noise_cancelation_confirmed_to&amp;#x2F;iu5fjip&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;old.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;airpods&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;yfc5xw&amp;#x2F;airpods_max...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>