How to Share One Pair of Powerbeats Pro Earphones With a Friend

Splitting a pair of Powerbreats Pro earphones between two people is perfectly possible thanks to their integrated H1 Apple chip, and it's a neat way of using the wireless features of the earpieces to share your listening experience.



Listen Together With One Pair of Powerbeats ProEarphones

There's nothing stopping you and a friend from each wearing a Powerbeats Pro earpiece to enjoy music or watch a movie together on your iPhone or iPad. Thanks to Automatic Ear Detection, both earphones sense when they're placed in an ear, regardless of whether they're attached to the same head.






The only caveat to sharing Powerbeats Pro between two people is that you're effectively splitting stereo channels, so you'll want to convert to mono audio. You can do that by following these steps:


Open up the Settings app.


Tap General and then tap Accessibility.


Scroll down to where it says "Mono Audio" and toggle it on.

When you're done sharing your AirPods with a friend, make sure to turn the Mono Audio setting back off so you get regular stereo sound when you're using both of your AirPods.



Share a Call With a Friend Using One Pair of Powerbeats Pro

Splitting a pair of Powerbeats Pro earphones between two people to take a phone call is a different situation that has one important drawback.




Although both earphones have built-in microphones, only a single mic can be active at any one time, so if you're sharing a pair with a friend, both of you can listen in on the call but only one of you will be able to talk back to the caller.




If you want to get to decide who take part in the conversation during a shared call, you can select which Powerbeats Pro earbud has the active mic.






To do so, open the Settings app on your connected iOS device and tap Bluetooth, then tap the circled 'i' icon alongside Powerbeats Pro in the Devices List. Then tap Microphoneand choose either the left or right earpiece.Also Read:Best free Beat making software

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iFixit’s 2019 MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals Minor Changes to Butterfly Keyboard Material

Earlier this week, Apple announced a surprised 2019 MacBook Pro refresh with the focus primarily being on faster 6-core and 8-core Intel processors. There was another smaller change that Apple did not even talk about in its press release — a more reliable butterfly keyboard.

Apple said that it is using newer materials for the butterfly keyboard on the 2019 MacBook Pro which should make it more reliable in nature.

A teardown from iFixit has now revealed what underlying changes Apple has made to its butterfly keyboard. The design of the dome switch has been updated and there is a new clearer material for the keyboard cover switch. The older one was semi-opaque, “somewhat tacky, and feels like silicone.” The new material is “clearer and smooth to the touch.” Based on an FITR analysis, the new material is nylon while the older material was a complex polymer.



The keyboard dome switch has also been changed slightly. Apple is seemingly “using a revised heat treatment, or alloy, or possibly both.” iFixit is unable to determine the exact changes with their current equipment and it requires a deeper analysis.

iFixit does attribute some of the reliability issues with the butterfly keyboard to the metal switches.

If anything changes about the dome—if it’s cracked or deformed—the key may behave erratically. Likewise, if the prongs break or bend, the key stops working.

Ultimately, Apple seems to have made some minor changes to the materials it is using to make the butterfly keyboard on the 2019 MacBook Pro. It is unclear if these changes will also be applicable on the replacement 2018 and older MacBook models which use the butterfly keyboard.

The bigger issue, however, is that just like previous MacBook Pro models, the 2019 MacBook Pro requires replacing one entire half of the laptop instead of just the keyboard if anything goes wrong with it. No wonder then that the 2019 MacBook Pro has received a measly repairability score of 1 out 10.
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Are you willing to buy the 2019 MacBook Pro despite the unreliable history of butterfly keyboards? Or are you willing to wait and watch as to how the new butterfly keyboard holds up in terms of reliability before making a decision?

[Via iFixit]

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Concept Envisions iPhone 11 without the Ugly Camera Bump We All Hate

Leaked renders have already given us a look at how the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max will look like. From a design viewpoint, they are not really going to stand out, with the camera bump at the rear actually increasing in width due to the introduction of a third new ultra-wide angle lens.

It is understandable that due to physical limitations, Apple has to include a camera bump on its iPhones. But what if the 2019 iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Max shipped without a camera bump? How would the triple camera setup then look like?

As envisioned by @PhoneDesigner in a couple of concept photos, pretty darn beautiful. Look at the concept photos below in which the iPhone 11 despite feature triple cameras has no hump…



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The #iPhoneXI without an hump and a subtle flash. Not that bad.

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…and now have a look at one of the leaked renders of how the iPhone 11 Max is actually going to look like.



The difference a lack of a camera hump at the rear makes is kind of crazy. Without the hump, the iPhone 11 in the concept has a very clean and modern looking design.

Now, granted the final iPhone 11 is definitely going to look much better than how it looks like in the renders. But even then, the concept photos definitely make us wish that Apple got around to releasing iPhones without a camera hump.
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