Apple’s much-rumored camera-equipped AirPods are apparently nearly read for release, based on a video shared by MacRumors that it discovered in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate.
The video, posted on X is a short demo of a man holding up a book so the AirPods camera can see the title. “With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later,” says the voiceover text.
Here is your first look at AirPods with Cameras in action using Visual Intelligence.
This video file came from macOS 26.7 RC pic.twitter.com/yo7RI4MCeu
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The cameras on the AirPods will feed information to Visual Intelligence on the user’s iPhone, allowing Siri to answer questions about the wearer’s surroundings, while also logging information. There is a direct reference to setting up Visual Intelligence on the AirPods.
If hair is covering the AirPods up, you’ll receive an alert. “To get the most accurate information about things in your environment, make sure AirPods are not covered,” it says.
The person in the video has short hair that doesn’t get in the way.
The camera-equipped AirPods have the codename B790, which was also previously mentioned by Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, who suggested the AirPods could launch as soon as September.
macOS Tahoe 26.7 also contains multiple other mentions of the B790 product, as well as references to an impressive list of other as yet unreleased Apple products.
