Apple just announced that one of the longest-requested features from AirPods users is finally coming as part of iOS 27: a custom EQ. Announced during the WWDC 2026 keynote, Apple hasn’t revealed full details of the feature, but we did get a first glimpse.
There will be a screen that looks like the image at the top of this page, and if you tap ‘Custom’ then a blue line is overlaid on the frequency graph. You appear to be able to move the blue line to increase or decrease the frequency bands.
There’s a live waveform that plays, so it appears that you’ll be able to see the result on the sound signature live, as well as hearing it, obviously.
In the past, it’s been possible to make some changes to AirPods’ sound using accessibility tools, but this really isn’t designed for making subtle changes to your music profile, it’s designed for the hard of hearing to boost frequencies they struggle with.
There’s also been an EQ in Apple Music, but that doesn’t help if you use another app for music, and doesn’t preserve the EQ when you switch devices or other apps in general.
The obvious thing that’s missing in the images we’ve seen so far is a clear option to save presets, though this might be in the final version, of course.
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