AirPods 3 Review: Easy Mode! 

Normally people would get AirPods for their iPhone.. I actually got an iPhone for my AirPods

Shout out to the matte black lamp shade, screams MKBHD💯

These 3rd gens sound great and fit my ears perfectly. For some reason, the AirPod Pro model with the silicon tips wouldn’t stay in my ears at all despite trying the different sizes Apple bundled with them, so I couldn’t use those. Much happier now with the new standard AirPods. I don’t really care for noise cancelling as a feature at all, in fact, I prefer hearing some of the outside noise for situational awareness when walking outside

I REALLY appreciate this review, especially you're rapid fire review of some of the other 'comparable' products. Its great to get a quick look at the options and where their strengths and weaknesses are. It really locates these AirPods within the market.

They’re my favorite earbuds now. I tried to like AirPods Pro, but I can’t get used to silicon tips. I have cursed ears in that only AirPods fit well. Apple is like one of the only companies making solid quality, non-silicon tipped earbuds.

Oh man, I feel you Marques! I’ve always wanted to use AirPods (and even the old regular earbuds), but they just fall right out of my ears every time I breath 🙃

MKB Amazing video and look forward to seeing much more.Great job as usual. Thanks so much Deb ✌️

Had mine for about over a week coming back to this vid to confirm your not cheating out by going for these as they are just as good as pros if not better really enjoying spatial audio

“Airpods are meant to sit right in the middle of the road” made me go oof.. The other day my airpod fell out of my pocket and I found it crushed into the road cement 😂

"The left one happens to stay in pretty well but the right one slides out" I FEEL SEEN.

I agree with you totally! I love the hard tips, they just work better for me. Silicone tips never stay put! Sound quality is awesome, as well.

Great review! I just picked up gen 3s yesterday. I am impressed with the bass quality! I look forward to getting to know them better. I would have gladly bought the pros, but I wear hearing aids and don’t want to have to take them out every time I use my Airpods. There are a great product for me!

"It is officially, official now". - Brownlee

Man I’ve been waiting on that MacBook Pro video… can’t wait for an authentic MKBHD review

I loved the original air pod fit. I upgraded last year to the pros and really liked them but they weren’t as comfortable as the regular airpods were. I though I’d go back to the original and get the AirPods 3. I’m finding them to be 10x more uncomfortable than the pros ever were, and I’m definitely thinking about returning these and just going back to my pros.

I feel so greatful for these coming out. I feel like I'm the only one who can't stand silicone tip earbuds even though they're spreading everywhere. With the Airpods pro I thought that every company had moved over to silicone tip only earbuds and I had to stick with my older AirPods. Thankfully with the Gen 3 that isnt an issue anymore although I would like to see more companies have more options for different people. I'm the odd one in my family where my ear can only comfortably fit the hard plastic type and I have no problem wearing them, unlike silicone tips where they immediately fall out within 30 seconds.

Have been waiting for this review! Thank you, no one else can point out what really matters as good as you do!

I’ve been waiting for you to do a review on these, finally 😌

Just brought these yesterday! The sound on them, I’m loving it.

the way you explain this is out of this world. thank you!

“…so they may have survived water in the past..” Yeah my pros have gone through the washer twice and amazingly still work. Definitely the best earbuds I’ve ever had.

Finally was honestly waiting on this

I went from the 2nd gen to the third when they came out for a long term review: I get worse battery life, issues with connecting/dropping, fit for me is awful. I used to be able to run and even mountain bike with one pod in and, because of the fit, it falls out super easy.

Have always wanted to buy true wireless earbuds for quite some months now and the cheaper options have scared me because of hella mixed reviews and the expensive ones have repulsed me because of budget and also because of their size and touch UI. Somehow, Apple's ones are what I had been looking out for (even though they are also expensive, seesh) and I'm glad I waited long enough to not buy the gen 1 airpods. I'm currently watching reviews because I have 80% made up my mind to buy them v soon and I prefer hard-tips (not for long hours of use perhaps) over silicon ones because they don't give off that 'suffocating' feeling inside my ears and also I can still hear ambient sounds when outside without really being too anxious. Thank you for your brilliant review as always. My 1st Techtuber to watch for any new tech-related info!

I’ve never been so hyped for a review than the macbook pro reviews

Holy hell my favorite part of this, is you low key just showed me how to turn spacial audio OFF for spotify. THANK YOU!!!!!

Awesome review as usual! Hope you can also do a quick review of Beats Fit Pro. More power to your channel! 💪🏻

The sound is really better, but that’s noticeable only inside, not outside (when it’s quiet). The biggest dealbreaker for me and other friends is that when you run, you can’t just quickly hit your ear to skip next track. You have to either use watch or Siri (which is kinda okay, but not always convenient). I hope they will bring this feature back in gen4 Also, when using these for calls, you hear your own voice too much (that’s why I don’t want to buy pro, but thought that gen3 would have the same feel as gen2, where everything is fine). I bought them, but will probably give them away because of these drawbacks

For years I told myself I can’t use silicone tipped airpods, but bit the bullet and bought some Pros - best purchase I ever bought. Fits perfectly, and the noise cancellation is something that has to be experienced to really understand and appreciate. Can’t live without them now.

Appreciate how you brought up some competitors for comparison, love it when reviews do that!

Love your input on tech man, your the best have a good one

I bought these on a whim today without knowing much about them and you came in clutch and taught me a few things about them. Thanks mkbhd!!

Just got my pair today, upgrading from Gen 2. Honestly these sound amazing and fit perfect. And wireless charging is a big thing for me as well. (I know Gen 2 had a Wireless option too)

These are my favorites now especially at the gym. The pros always fell out no matter what tips I used. I think these sound better too

The review was straight to the point. thanks

Just got them, I’m fan already! Sound is excellent and I don’t like fully blocking my ear from outside noises. But these still keep enough out as well. Deep bass also!

That fun fact is what I'm here for. Amazing research man.

“They might have survived some water in the past” I have sent AirPods in the case through the washing machine with no problem lmao

This is always the man that I come to when I see some thing I'm interested in technology wise

This was legit the best review I’ve ever watched ! Thank you .

I have never liked silicon tipped ear buds. So I was very happy to see there’s air pods that are basically pros but without the tips/noise cancellation. I already purchased them.

I had the first edition airpods, and now I have the pros, and I LOVE them. I use them everyday. I was a bit skeptical on the silicone tips to begin with, since I’m usually a hard tip guy, but damn they changed my mind about silicone tips

I love the Pro and Standard for different reasons. If I need to block out a bunch of noise up to running a lawnmower or sitting in a plane, the pros are fantastic. I use the standards for listening to podcasts while falling asleep since my ears breath better with them. They standards are also much better for surrounding sounds than transparency mode is in the pros.

I wish I could use silicon tipped earbuds. No matter what I do, they always fall out. It’s incredible how subjective and different headphones can be for each person. Great review!

I have been using them for about a week now. They sound super amazing💯. The sound actually does move with head position, however, they hurt my ears. Each time i take them off i can feel the subtle pain pressure on my tragus. I do recommend them compared to my earlier version (Gen 1 ) but 8/10 for me.

Can’t believe each time, this RED quality is dawn good

I have come to use your videos as a go to for tech reviews now, good work.

I've had my propulse pods 3 since the first week that 3rd gen airpods dropped and to this day i don't regret going clone! apple is waay to greedy with their earpods lol

first time ever on RU-vid that i actually eager and waiting for a review from a specific youtuber:)

Finally Man it's time to see your review waiting for such a long time

I love how the Pros fit in my ears, but when it came down to it I needed the longer battery life of the 3rd gen AirPods for making calls at work. And TBH the ANC and Transparency modes weren’t that essential to me. So for that reason I’m rocking the Gen 3 AirPods and loving them so far.

This is such a cool background for the video, I love it!

Tips hurt some people ears especially mine and I can’t keep ‘em on that long. It’s based on the ear type and these new pods are for me. Good video M

I still love my airpods pro. Though I was hesitant at first, because I was so used to the wired ones (they fit easily to my ears and hated any silicone tip earphones). Then I bought it and the first few weeks, quite hated them because they always fell from my ears. But after a more few weeks/months of using it (a bit of research on how to use it 101), 😅 I have grown to love it. 😍 And couldn’t be more satisfied especially with the noise cancelling feature. For me, that was the best part. ❤️❤️❤️

Just switched from the airpods Pro to gen 3 and I'm impressed with sound quality. Since I don't usually use noise cancelling. Also got the blacked out icons case!

Got these today for Christmas and I love them so far!

I see you casually showing the new Beats Fit Pro on the table at 1:00, can't wait for a review!

I love the fact they got rid of the silicon tip, in my case specifically, silicon never fits and it keeps falling.

loving the 4k vids👌 looks fantastic.

I recently got the Pro's for my birthday on Black Friday. I had the choice between the 3rd Generation and the Pro's. I got the pro's because I heavily wanted the noise cancellation and the customization with the rubbers tips was something that I thought I would find useful. And I do.

Finally I’ve been waiting for your review 😇

I remember being so skeptical when the 1st gen AirPods came out half decade ago with the iPhone 7 ..boy was I shocked how low they were able to get the latency on those. I’ve never looked back. I also preferred them to the pros initially but was gifted a pair last year and now don’t want to go back to not having noise-cancelling.

Just got myself a set of 3rd gen headphones. Super happy with them. That spatial audio stuff is pretty cool!

The design of the older airpods fits better.. I recently switched, its good but i wish they stick to the previous design and they should have had volume control on the pods... And keep tapping options

I love how Marques starts talking about how other headphones which do other things better

Always liked your videos. They are so clean with professional looking a and b roll and every video is a treat. Gotta watch em all🤾 Keep it up ❤️

The quality on your videos lately are just 🔥and very crisp

Great review mate, thanks lots 🙏

Waiting for the beats fit review those are on a whole other level

One of the big wins for Airpods has always been the mics. How about a review video on wireless buds mic results? For example, Pixel Buds sound awful for recording... Airpods (even old ones) are 100% better for this. I'd love to hear which buds are best for audio recording and conference call mic output.

Thanks for helping me pick I was upgradeing from gen 1’s and I wanted to see what I could do but the 3 was way better then 2’s so tysm for helping me pick

Thanks for the info at the end! 💯

Nice smooth delivery, non salesperson evaluations , honest, accurate, a little futuristic at times, bring on more

Marquees always coming in with that High Quality Content It’s the little details that really set his videos apart.

From someone who first had the OG air pods, went to the pros, hated them immensely bc of the silicon tips they legit fell out without me moving at all, to see the 3rd gen without them is a blessing to me

Even if I’m not interested in the product, Marques’ video are still so satisfying 😍

would have loved to see what the Airpods Magsafe case looked like under magnet paper

Can’t believe you’re almost at 15mil!! Congrats MKBHD team!

I did like having my AirPods Pro for a while with the noise-cancelling feature… that is, until they started falling out of my ears every time I put them in. I also found the silicone tips to be very uncomfortable. So I just brought the 3rd gen AirPods and I absolutely love them 😍

just ordered mine. i'm so excited! thanks for the great video, man. i clicked it before looking at the creator cause it came up first and i thought "i hope it's-" and then saw your face and was like wooo

Excited about these, I prefer the hard tip, i use the original pods at work because they stay put. The pros sounds better, the noise cancellation is amazing, but they do not stay no matter which size fitting i use. These seem like the best of both worlds to me personally. Can’t wait to check them out.

I’m the other way around, I can’t handle the silicone tips from the pros, I gave them a try for a month and they gave me horrible headaches while the regular ones stay pretty good in my ears and they fit so perfect they even create a seal, so I’m looking forward for these, pretty excited!

Thanks marques! just got the new airpods 3 and this video made me very excited to use them! :)

I´ve had 1gen for almost 3 years now, and I change to 3 gen yesterday. It was like going from Sony walkman in the 90´s to Bose QC 45. Blew my mind. Specially if you crank up the bass and diskant in EQ settings on Spotify....... Hallelujah....

I'm with you, MB. I can't wear airpods at all because they're literally falling out of my ears if I so much as turn my head.

I’ll still stick to my Gen2 AirPods these things are tough, they’ve been dropped many times and even went through the full wash cycle and drying timer and still work perfectly fine. Pretty impressive

I actually got the Sony ones you've mentioned and the sound quality is absolutely incredible!

Apple totally missed the opportunity to have removable silicone tips so you can either opt to have ANC or not any time of the day. I would love to have the airpods pro but I use headphones all the time now especially due to online classes so those silicone tips will definitely hurt. On the other hand using the airpods 3 doesnt feel immersive when I want to listen to music or watch a movie and you can still hear noise. The airpods 3 design is basically just a pro without the silicone tips.

Hey Marques, this is the first time you didn't make a video on the Bose QC. They have a new QC 45. I have been looking forward for the same. Are they not worth reviewing?

The first time I’m using something even before an MKBHD review comes out. Loving my AirPods 3. Spacial audio is something else👌🏼

Thanks for this review. Very useful 👍🏻

Planning to buy one so this is a great review

honestly the main advantage of the airpods is the fast and reliable connectivity. i've used other brands where they look the same and feel the same, but the connection is hit and miss. airpods work everytime, all the time, and that's largely because of the chip, which is hard to imitate. so i still prefer them over other ones because it's frustrating as hell to have to wait for a connection everytime you use wireless earbuds.

Got mine last Tuesday and I’ve been mostly very pleased with them. I’m the opposite of Marques, the Pros just wouldn’t fit in my ears and I could never get a good seal with the silicone tips whereas the AirPods 1 and 2 would always sit very firmly in my ears with even vigorous rowing and running not able to unseat them. The AirPods 3 fit pretty much as well as before, I think the slightly more bulbous head of each bud makes them slightly tighter but they aren’t uncomfortable or anything. The charging case is good, it’s only fractionally larger than the AirPods 2 case, the only difference is it’s landscape rather than portrait now. Sound quality is better, with a fair bit more bass in the sound compared to the AirPods 2. I think they leak less sound too, I’ve taken them out and covered the sensors and slowly increased the volume until I could hear them and you can turn them up quite a bit before they’re audible. The only real criticism I have are the squeezable stems, which I didn’t like on the Pros either. With such small stems trying to quickly squeeze them 2 or 3 times to repeat or skip a track is quite fiddly and normally requires me to stop if I’m on exercise equipment. With the AirPods 1 and 2, I could just slap my left or right ear to go forward or back a track. It was much, much quicker and didn’t take so long that I’d have to stop exercising. Ideally, I’d like Apple to include both in the AirPods 4 so I can map volume up/down to the squeezable stems and I can carry on using the tap gestures for next/previous track.

I’ve been checking your channel ever since they dropped for the review! 😂💃🏻

Thanks for the great review!

I’ve had my third gen for about a week and at first they hurt my ears and I felt like they were always falling out, but after a few days I got more comfortable with them and they don’t really fall out anymore. Ig it depends on ur ear shape tho.

As an AirPod Pro user, I could never got back after having this NC and transparency mode, they're so so so good.

Marques waggin’ his head getting that real world demo. Love it!

The best review I've ever seen😍🤩