We provide tips for technology and for life which you can use to make yourself more productive, with an emphasis on free software and tools you can put to use online. RSS | Twitter | Facebook Part technology guide, part productivity tool, Lifehacker helps you organise your workday and maximise your playtime. About h1 Email tips or questions to the: Lifehacker Tips Box Phone: +61 2 8667 5444 How to contact our team.I don’t know about you, but my mind is blown, and my Amazon cart is full. Watch the cleaning putty in action on TikTok right here. This morning I discovered AirPods cleaning putty, and folks, it’s like ASMR for your eyeballs.Īirpod cleaning putty is kind of like Blu Tack but much, much less sticky, and basically, all you have to do is press a square of it over the opening of your Airpod speaker, and it pulls out all the little grainy things (and ear wax) that gets stuck in the speaker bit. It has led me to buy some of the most weird and wonderful gadgets on the internet, most of which have completely changed my life ( button pins, anyone?). If you come here often, you’d know that I’m actually obsessed with the AmazonFinds hashtag on TikTok. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. I am so happy that Apple fixed the problem as soon as I took it to them.At Lifehacker, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too.

If you are having trouble getting your AirPods Pros to pass the Ear Tip Fit Test, I would take them back and exchange them. It was clear that the original pair had some type of issue. At the end of the Genius session - the very nice Apple Store employee took a new pair off the shelf and exchanged them for my bad pair. It failed every single time despite adjusting and pressing them into my ears between tries. I placed the medium demo tips onto my personal AirPods and tried the test 10 times. I switched to the large ear tips and repeated the test. I switched to the small tips and tried again. They passed both left and right immediately. I paired the store demo AirPods Pro with my iPhone and placed them into my ear. They had me try the demo pair (which was pre-installed with medium tips on left and right). Out of frustration I took them into the Apple Store where I purchased them. I would adjust the right and then the right would pass and the left would fail. Long story short, I tried every possible combination of tip sizes and was never able to get both to pass the Ear Tip Fit Test. Sometimes better in one ear than the other. The noise reduction seemed to work sometimes and just stop working and then start working again. I purchased a set of AirPods Pro on the day they became available in store. I shower every day and wash my ears out just like everybody else, but this shows it may be time to start Q-Tipping each day as well, to further my effort in keeping the AirPods clean.īefore: Note the crud stuck in the sensor grooves/dimples, and also around the perimeter:įor those of you doing the 'suck out the crud' method, after seeing this you may think twice about that now :D (The 'before' looks pretty gross - the grooves are filled with dead skin, oil, wax, whatever it is). Note that you can't see any of this with the naked eye, you really need to magnify it. I did that at first but was able to get it back out).įor a comparison, like I mentioned above, I used the Magnifier tool on iPhone to view a 'before' and 'after'. (note: don't press so hard that you get putty stuck in the grooves. A combination of those techniques cleared the crud out. I also did some rapid-fire dabbing as well. What I found best was covering the sensor with the putty, apply some pressure, and quickly rip it off (like a stuck band-aid). I finally ended up with a 100% clean sensor screen, and the fit test started working. It was a trial and error, as I didn't know how much I had to press and pull, I used the magnifier on iPhone to check my progress. I picked up some Loctite Fun-Tak and went to work.

I had the same deal as a lot of people on here - the fit test worked for the first few weeks, then failing each time I've tried since then. I now have the good seal on Fit Test for first time since week 1 of owning them. I can confirm the Loctite Fun-Tak solution worked for me.

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