Wish you could customize this mode? Turns out you can!
Ever since I've first used Apple AirPods Pro, I've had one consistent major gripe with them: the Transparency Mode is too transparent. It lets in (and actively boosts) so much noise that it easily overwhelms anything you have playing, which is not such a problem if you're using it quickly to let in conversation with someone for a moment in a coffee shop, but isn't great if you want to use it when walking around so that you're more aware of road noise, since it means you might as well not use the earbuds at all. Lots of the best noise-cancelling earbuds, including the Sony WF-1000XM4, include multiple modes so you can adjust how much sound is let through the noise cancelling system when needed, but with AirPods Pro, there's no adjustment for the Transparency Mode… or is there? I recently discovered the hidden setting, tucked away deep into the iPhone 'Accessibility' options, that lets you customize pretty strongly how the Transparency Mode works. I hope that in the future – perhaps with AirPods Pro 2 – Apple will include more easy pre-set modes for this that you can access quickly, but for those who have the current model, here's how you can alter…