Apple also introduced a new USB-C to 3.5mm cable for the AirPods Max last week, and it’s worth noting you can use that without any new firmware; it works right out of the box for connecting the headphones to devices with a traditional headphone jack — and it’s a pretty good cable as these things go. (You’d hope so for $39.)

That’s the capability to connect AirPods Max to analog sources such as the inflight entertainment on an airplane which, almost universally, still requires a cable link to a 3.5m

Apple has updated an AirPods support page to indicate that the AirPods Max (USB-C) firmware update version 7E99 is now