Today, we did a tour of a train station in Madrid, and the tour was in Spanish. Brad and I both took the opportunity to use the auto-translate feature on our AirPods, and it worked fantastically. We popped them in our ears, and if you hold down with two fingers on each AirPod at the same time, it goes into translate mode. You have to have the language you're translating already downloaded in the Translate app on your iPhone.
The noise-canceling goes on, and as the guide spoke in Spanish, seconds later we would hear the English version in our ear. It was actually pretty good. We were both pretty amazed by it.
Airpod Live Translation Actually Works!!!
Thursday, July 9, 2026 · Madrid