Life & fun · September 9, 2026
AirPods 5
1.5x Active Noise Cancellation, AI Siri, Live Translation
AirPods 5 launched on September 9, 2026 with 202 votes, #17 of 5,356 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
What it does
AirPods 5 brings better active noise cancellation to the open-ear design, along with a smarter Siri that can hold real conversations and live translation for talking across languages. Built for calls, workouts, and everyday listening. Available September 18, 2026.
AirPods 5. Discover the magic of Active Noise Cancellation. Featuring a new acoustic architecture, Live Translation, and Siri AI.
Get the highlights. Watch the AirPods 5 film A person enabling Active Noise Cancellation by touching the stem of AirPods 5 Animation of AirPods 5 twisting around and becoming transparent to showcase internal architecture, with blue lines used as an indication of air and sound coming through the earbud. Animation of Siri AI icon opening up to a wave of color symbolizing conversations with AI assistant AirPods 5 earbud, Live Translation changes characters reading from another language to English in 'Hello' Animation of AirPod earbud, twisting around and becoming see through, H2 chip highlighted inside the stem of an AirPods 5 Animation of green battery icon filling up indicating charging Up…from apple.com
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