Open earbuds support many of the same features found in traditional earbuds such as multi-point pairing to connect to multiple devices at once, automatically shut down, waterproof and even spatial audio. Most people offer an app for additional features like EQ or Earbuds Finder, and you'll find touch or push controls on board. Due to the limitations of its physical design
One feature you shouldn't look for in open earbuds is noise reduction, which relies on a mix of passive sound isolation and microphones to measure your environment and reverse the polarity of external sound frequencies to “cancel” them. The basic physics of the process needs to work effectively. While there are indeed some semi-open earbuds (such as the AirPods 4), and even some fully open earbuds offer noise reduction, usually only lower frequencies see noise reduction, which is usually very limited. If you need to cancel noise, you'd better choose options like AirPods Pro, Bose's highest ranking Ultra, or any other noise favorites for us.
