The move from Apple comes after it introduced hearing health features to its AirPods Pro 2 last year, which includes a hearing test, hearing aid feature and active hearing protect

Granted, this new AirPod ability will still heavily rely on the Translate app; thus, you’ll still have to have your iPhone in hand. In this way, it’s more of an extension of your iPhone’s live-translation feature rather than a new AirPod feature … but it’s still cool nonetheless.