When I first saw the Live Translation feature during yesterday's AirPods Pro 3 announcement, I asked myself a question. "Does this mean," I thought, "that if you want to have a conversation with someone else in two different languages without the need to pull my phone out, we both need AirPods Pro 3?"
So I did some digging, and after a visit to the Apple support page for Apple Intelligence, I discovered that no, you won't both need $249 worth of earbuds. Good news!
You can also use your existing AirPods 4 or AirPods Pro 2 models and order that delicious-looking paella with the unpronounceable name.
How does it work?
Because all the AI translation is handled by your iPhone, it's not reliant on any hardware inside AirPods Pro 3 specifically. The only thing you do need is a phone that sup