{"id":593,"date":"2025-08-06T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:54:38","slug":"ios-26-gives-airpods-charging-case-a-new-expanded-lighting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/ios-26-gives-airpods-charging-case-a-new-expanded-lighting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 gives AirPods charging case a new, expanded lighting system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/airpods-4.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s become common for AirPods to get new features with each major version of iOS. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/04\/airpods-pro-2-keep-getting-better-and-ios-26-continues-the-trend\/\">That\u2019s true with iOS 26<\/a>, especially for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. But it seems iOS 26 also introduces a rarity: an update to how the AirPods charging case works.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"airpods,ios-26\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1013124\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/06\/ios-26-gives-airpods-charging-case-a-new-expanded-lighting-system\/#more-1013124\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s become common for AirPods to get new features with each major version of iOS. That\u2019s true with iOS 26, especially for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. But it seems iOS 26 also introduces a rarity: an update to how the AirPods charging case works. more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilykristine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}