Latest Pixel Buds Pro 2 Update Adds 4 Cool Features You've Been Waiting For

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google is pushing an update for its Pixel Buds Pro 2.
• New features see adaptive audio and caput motion support.
• The features should get complete nan adjacent fewer weeks.

If you ain Pixel Buds Pro 2, you soon mightiness announcement a large upgrade successful your audio quality.

At past month's Made by Google event, nan institution revealed its caller budget-friendly Pixel 2a buds and teased immoderate upgrades for its Pixel Buds Pro 2 that debuted successful 2024. 

Also: These Google earbuds connection nan eventual listening acquisition for Android users

Those upgrades are yet arriving arsenic Google has announced that it's pushing its latest update to eligible devices. Here's a look astatine what's connected nan measurement for your earbuds. 

What's caller for your Pixel Buds Pro 2

1. Adaptive Audio: Your earbuds will now thief you enactment alert of your surroundings while still keeping retired unwanted noise. Whether you're running, biking, riding nan subway, aliases moving out, your Pixel Buds Pro 2 will accommodate to nan level of sound astir you. Apple's AirPods Pro 2 debuted a akin characteristic successful 2023. Apple's AirPods Pro 2 debuted a akin feature in 2023.  

2. Loud Noise Protection: If a large sound occurs abruptly astir you, for illustration a occurrence truck's siren blaring, your earbuds will thief trim nan level of sound that reaches your ears. However, Google explains that it's not suitable to defender against "sudden impulse sounds" for illustration gunshots, explosions, aliases fireworks.

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3. Head gestures for calls and texts: Google says you tin now negociate calls and matter messages without lifting a finger. By utilizing circumstantial caput gestures, you tin power your Pixel Buds pinch elemental caput movements. You tin motion to reply a telephone aliases reply to a text, aliases shingle your caput to decline. 

4. Improved Gemini Live interactions successful noisy environments: If you've ever had problem being heard by Gemini Live because of sound astir you, you'll announcement an betterment pinch this update. Google explains that precocious audio processing will now prioritize your sound and destruct inheritance noise, meaning your conversations pinch Gemini Live will beryllium uninterrupted, moreover if group are talking astir you. 

Google says nan update pinch these features, which will return astir 10 minutes to install, will rotation retired to each users gradually and automatically -- conscionable make judge you person your earbuds charged and connected. If you person automatic updates turned off, you tin cheque manually by going to nan Google Pixel Buds app, uncovering "More settings" and tapping "Firmware update."