These are the differences between Apple's AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2

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While the iPhone 16 and Apple’s AI strategy got the bulk of the attention at Monday’s launch event, the rollout of new AirPods caused plenty of excitement as well.

For the first time in years, Apple has updated its base model AirPods and added even more features to its AirPods Pro line. And unlike the iPhone, the two lines of AirPods have different numbers, which only makes things more confusing, since consumers have been trained to believe a higher number at the end of a product name means a more technologically advanced product.