Apple on Tuesday seeded new beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 3 wireless earbuds to developers for testing. The firmware has a build number of 8B5025a.
The firmware beta comes as Apple is beta testing iOS 26.2. While the beta firmware doesn’t include release notes, iOS 26.2 expands Live Translation for the AirPods to the European Union, so the firmware could lay the groundwork that.
With iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe, Apple has added a beta firmware update installation option in the AirPods settings interface. Developers can use the beta option to turn on beta downloads.
