How to Set Up Every Feature of Your Powerbeats Pro 2

Pro 2 PowerBeats are a Pair of impressive headphonesBut you need a configuration to use all their features, especially if you want to try the monitoring of the heart rate. Here is a complete ventilation on how to associate the headphones with Android and iPhone phones, as well as how to get the best fit with your ears.

Associating the PowerBeats Pro 2 with an iPhone

Apple has facilitated the twinning of the PowerBeats Pro 2 with iPhones, at least for sound – the cardiac frequency function is a little more complicated, and I will talk about it in a minute. But to combine your PowerBeats Pro 2, you have just opened the case while the phone is nearby. That’s it!

Follow the prompts you see on the screen of your phone. He may ask you to keep the button just inside the housing cover. The other prompts will ask you if you want to do an adjustment test (you can do it later) and if you want Siri to announce your calls and notifications.

Combine the PowerBeats Pro 2 with an Android phone

To use PowerBeats Pro 2 with an Android phone, first install the Beats applicationPress Connect and choose the PowerBeats Pro 2. (My application has just called the two “PowerBeats Pro” versions, but each had a photo of the correct model.) Select the option to connect the audio and follow the prompts. You will be asked to open the case, and if the torque does not start automatically, you hold the button just inside the lid of the case to put the PowerBeats in torque mode.

Once the PowerBeats Pro 2 has been connected, the prompts will ask you if you want to do an adjustment test and configure heart rate features. I also received a small message telling me how to cut the audio and put an end to a call. (A press the main mute button, a double press the end.)

Get a good adjustment with the ear tips and the sound test

To obtain the best sound quality and the best noise management (like the active noise objective), you will want the headphones to form a good seal in your ear. This implies two things: the choice of the right size of the ear of the ear and the adjustment of the angle of the earpiece to find the best position.

The PowerBeats Pro 2 comes with five tips, from size XS to XL. These are fairly standard and fit silicone advice, but you can always exchange them with spare advice from other brands. For example, A Redditor said they got a better seal with These Azla tips. Out of curiosity, I exchanged mine with the silicone advice that came with my earrbee traffic jams, and they adapt too.

If you find it hard to raise the silicone tip on the earpiece, turn the silicone cup inside. It becomes much easier to manage this way, especially on the smallest.

Then do a sound test. You can find it in the Settings on iPhone, or the Beats app on Android, under Ear tip adjustment test. You will have to be in a calm environment; The application refused to take the test when I was in a noisy gymnasium. You will hear a few seconds of music, then the application will give you comments on the adjustment on each ear.

If you have not got a good seal, it’s up to you to experiment and try again. You may need a different size from the tip of the ear, or you may just have to change the head of headphones in your ears and try again. I found that I had my best seal with the headphones tilted forward.

A significant warning here: adjustment which is the best for sound quality is not necessarily the adjustment which is the best for the cardiac frequency function! As I wrote in my reviewI found that a pre-before position gave me the best audio quality, but the heart rate sensor could not take my heart rate precisely in this position. Beat and apple do not provide any information on obtaining a good adjustment for heart rate outside of direct you to the tip of the ear adjustmentWhich is not necessarily useful.

Associate the cardiac frequency sensor on iPhone

When it comes to associating the heart rate sensor, things are ironically a little difficult due to Apple’s efforts for everything to work transparently. You cannot twin this sensor as a normal bluetooth heart rate monitor; Instead, you should use certain specific partner applications that will automatically collect the heart rate.

These applications are, at the time of writing: Open, Nike Run Club, Runna, scale, slopes, podometer ++, Lazyfit and five other fitness applications with vague names like “Workout for Women”. This list is likely to change, so Check the official list here.

The heart rate sensor is on by default, but you can deactivate it. If you cannot reveal your heart rate in these applications, check the settings to make sure that the heart rate function is activated.

Combining the heart rate sensor on Android

On Android, the heart rate function works like any other Bluetooth heart rate sensor. Above all, this is a distinct twinning stage of the pairing of headphones for sound. Hearing your music through the buds does not mean that your heart rate sensor is connected.

Make sure that the heart rate function is activated in the settings of your beats. Go to My beats And scroll down the page to find the heart rate. Enable.

To put the heart rate sensor in twinning mode, press twice and hold it on the side of the earphone. The sensor is now available for applications and devices to be coupled. For example, in the Strava application, you can use PowerBeats as a heart rate sensor in the same way you use a chest strap.

If you connect the heart rate sensor to other equipment, such as a treadmill at the gymnasium, you will not be able to play audio from your phone at the same time.

Settings you may want to modify

With your PowerBeats Pro 2 all connected, you will probably want to modify a few things. Consider these elements:

• Exchange between listening modes: Maintain the lateral button rocks between the cancellation of noise and the mode of transparency. But there is actually three Listening modes available in your Settings application. The other is “extinguished”, without noise management. You can choose the options available from your side button, all three or two of your choice.

• Reprogram the side button: By default, the two headphones use a press the side button for noise management. But if you prefer, you can modify one or both to trigger the voice assistant on your phone (Siri on iPhone, or the equivalent on your Android phone).

• Reprograms call checks: By default, you press the side button once to answer a call, press it during a mute or responsiveness call, and press twice to finish a call. You can exchange these last two if you wish.

• Use a earphor: Normally, you must have both headphones to use noise cancellation, but there is a parameter to allow this even when you only use one earpiece at a time. (The heart rate always needs the two headphones, however.)

• Configure the personalized space audio (iPhone / Apple apparent only): Audio of Facetime calls, and supported shows and videos, can be made to have the impression that this surrounds you. There is a special configuration process for that; Apple has more information here.

• Ask Siri to announce your notifications, or not (iPhone / Apple devices only): What it looks like. Siri will interrupt your training tunes to let you know that your husband sends you a text about something. I don’t know if I like this functionality.

• Share pairing on all your devices (iPhone / Apple devices only): After having twinned the PowerBeats with your iPhone, they will automatically connect to all your other devices, such as, for example, your Mac laptop. If you don’t like it, deselect “Connect automatically” and choose the other option, which is only to connect to this iPhone when the last connection to this iPhone.