There’s a massive cold front moving across much of the United States, and temperatures in New York City are in the low 20s – but it feels more like the teens with the wind chill. I’m still rocking AirPods Pro 3 on my walks, of course, listening to Bruce Springsteen, but I’m keen to keep my hands in my coat pockets and rely on hands-free controls.
Alongside keeping my fingers crossed that the AirPods’ microphones are good enough to pick up my voice and transcribe things properly, I’ve also been relying on a lesser-known feature: gesture controls. Yes, they might make me look a little weird to folks passing me on the sidewalk, but shaking my head up and down or left and right is a surprisingly simple way to have a notification read aloud – or not – as well as to respond to a message or ignore it entirely.
