zroger73

I ordered a 32 GB silver SE a couple of weeks ago for no particular reason (nostalgia, perhaps?). My current phone is an XS Plus while my previous phone was a 6S Plus. I hadn't realized how HEAVY and clumsy the Plus-sized phones are until I pulled the dainty, feather-light, lilliputian SE out of the box. I like it, though, as a throwback to simpler times and may move my SIM card over and ditch my bloated and unnecessary XS Plus.

Good gravy. If someone goes through THIS much trouble to get my Wi-Fi password, they've EARNED access to it!  

lordjohnwhorfin said:

Mine survived a full cycle in the washing machine and work as good as new months later. 
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My brother ruined a left AirPod in a laundry cycle. The right AirPod and case survived, but he threw everything away, and bought a new set. Not long after, he ruined a right AirPod in another laundry cycle. Too bad he threw the original set away!

AppleExposed said:

I wonder if debris can cover the sensors?

Ear detection is accomplished with two infrared transceivers on each AirPod. I can hold the AirPods in front of the foward-facing camera on my iPhone and can see the IR light. The AirPods are clean and the circular windows for these sensors are flat and flush. I can only assume some type of electronic failure. I've tried all the usual resets to no avail. No big deal since I don't use this feature, but it is worth noting that the feature did stop functioning at some point causing me to have to disable "automatic ear detection" in my devices.

LOVE my AirPods. Echoing others, they are my favorite Apple product/accessory EVER.

Since the day I bought them a year and a half ago, I promised that if anything ever happened to them, I wouldn't hesitate to drop another $160 on a pair and that still holds true to this day.

They've survived several drops on concrete floors, sweat, rain, the case is stained from blue jean dye, and the ear sensors no longer work (they think they're in my ears anytime they're out of the case), but the batteries still last longer than advertised and they sound like new.

I'll definitely grab a fresh pair of version 2 of the AirPods as long as they retain the core values of the originals.

HomePod 12.1.3 "Addresses an issue that could cause Siri to stop listening". Good. I've experienced that.