{"video_id":"Kj6koS2AH9o","title":"Your AirPods Aren't Actually Broken","channel":"Mac Address","show":"Mac Address","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":722,"segments":[{"start_s":8.32,"end_s":12.48,"text":"hey jonathan do you think you can help me out with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.92,"end_s":22.24,"text":"these these are fully","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.24,"end_s":29.359,"text":"earwax i've noticed this myself when using my old earpods over the years","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.519,"end_s":33.28,"text":"they clog up in the mesh of these headphones and at points i got so bad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":31.679,"end_s":36.64,"text":"that i couldn't even hear out of them in fact these are sarah's second pair","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.76,"end_s":39.76,"text":"after clogging up her last set so i think this is 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too","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":706.56,"end_s":712.8,"text":"are a producer of earwax give us a like and if you've clogged up a set of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":710.399,"end_s":716.56,"text":"earbuds before might as well subscribe i'm also curious if any of you have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":714.639,"end_s":718.88,"text":"found a really great working solution to this problem","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":717.76,"end_s":723.44,"text":"let me know in the comments below because i'm desperate to figure this thing out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"hey jonathan do you think you can help me out with these these are fully earwax i've noticed this myself when using my old earpods over the years they clog up in the mesh of these headphones and at points i got so bad that i couldn't even hear out of them in fact these are sarah's second pair after clogging up her last set so i think this is probably a pretty common problem being a bit of an earwax producer myself i've often wondered if seeing a bunch of ear wax on my airpods meant that i'm ruining my ears but after reaching up to a local hearing specialist he told me in an email that one everyone has different earwax some softer some harder having no earwax is the genetic anomaly two i always worry that i'm pushing earwax further in my ear but he said that oftentimes you're actually helping remove earwax from your ears hence this mess three also if you are someone who cleans their ears frequently that could be causing your ear wax to become softer making it all the more easy to clog your earbuds and four if you're seeing lots of earwax you don't need to worry about your health just the health of your airpods obviously the easiest and most wasteful solution to the problem is to just buy a new set of airpods which is what sarah did the first time hers got clogged but that's untenable apple does service airpods but it's 70 each for a repair or replacement or it's 50 just to get a battery service from what i can tell it's the same service just one's cheaper so make sure to say battery service to save 20 bucks so between 100 and 140 to deal with a naturally occurring body excretion it all seems steep there have got to be better ways but before that let me introduce you to our sponsor pdf element by wondershare newly updated pdf element 8 features a brand new ui with friendly iconography and a dark and light mode convert pdfs to and from any popular formats like microsoft word powerpoint epub html pages and more sign documents with the trackpad signature feature or use their advanced ocr function to make old scanned documents searchable download pdf element on your mac or iOS device and use our special offer with the link below now where was i ah yes wax filled air pods in doing this research i came across a little startup called podswap founded by florida entrepreneurs emily alpert and emma stritzinger the company swaps your old airpods with refurbished ones and then they refurbish yours remarkably they worked out how to replace the battery and clean airpods at fifty 50 to swap a pair of first gen airpods and 60 for a second gen set they're certainly a compelling option so i got this pair of air pods from a colleague i can just show you uh what they look like um how often do you deal with airpods like this it's nothing we haven't seen before yeah um yeah i mean it's no secret that airpods are pretty gross um so this is something we deal with every day at pod swap like it's no surprise that people have um sound issues when they send their earpods to us because they're so filled with ear wax so this actually um is one of the reasons why you might experience issues with sound on your ear pods does the earwax like get really smushed through the mesh yes we've seen air pods that we're shocked people can even hear out of because they're so clogged up like from the back through the front it's just um it's unbelievable but you know they've been out since 2016 so it makes sense that someone's using them for the past four years and it just builds up we have to open them up and really get in there let's just say that so then um what does it mean for me as i embark and try and clean these airpods often times when you attempt to clean them yourself like we have a lot of people who damage them ultimately so careful out there yeah well thanks for all the help okay so let's see what these pod swap airpods look like and how clean they are oh yeah okay let's see this other one okay these are pretty clean so i wonder what's going on behind the mesh let's find out so one of the concerns i have with cleaning air pods is that the earwax has been pushed through the mesh and so all i'm going to be doing is cleaning the surface and not actually addressing the problem so i want to know how bad it can get behind the mesh so i'm going to sacrifice these old earpods that i've had since my iphone 5 and see what's what key the music i have no idea what i'm doing so uh there's a seam here and i wanna get into it looking at i fix it they used a knife i believe that these are glued together and with a bit of heat and a bit of pressure maybe i can uh pry these apart let's just see it's warm um oh yeah it's warm oh yes yes it worked hey oh okay but i do need to get the speaker off now yes oh i got it okay here we go interesting it's not full of ear wax but it has gone through ever so lightly oh but when the light goes through it it's orange so that's delicious all right so i think this is a design issue with the release of the airpods in 2012 apple made a big deal about how these headphones could fit comfortably in more people's ears they use this funnel shape to help but what doesn't help is where the mesh is placed right near the tip so if you're a waxy individual you can probably see the problem so what about cleaning them well i discovered this cute little thing recently it's an earbuds washing machine from a company called cardlax who also make a portable muscle stimulator no matter now this is a kickstarter and they kindly sent over a prototype to try cleaning one of these airpods so let's see what it can do and if you want to pre-order one they're currently going for about 50 on kickstarter all right gloves not bad still some residue here and there it looks like it was used it's probably good for maintenance but what if you want to try it the manual way looking at some videos on youtube i also learned of a irish phone repair shop called phone fix crap that's been posting very gross microscopic videos of airpods being cleaned it looks like he has a thin pick he uses to clear out the wax and scrubs it with some sort of liquid and brush and sucks it out with a vacuum if it's really bad oh god i can't i can't watch this anymore also when in my interaction with the ear specials he mentioned hearing aid cleaning tools which is interesting so we ordered a set off amazon for about twelve dollars look at these fine picks and brushes it might be a big help oh my gosh it's really coming out all right uh let's go up to sarah and uh get her to see how well i've done sarah i think i've cleaned them oh my gosh let's see if you can guess which one i cleaned manually and which one i cleaned with the earbuds washing machine all right what do you think of how they look this one looks way cleaner than this one for sure okay i guess the real test is by trying them out yes let's see if you actually hear music okay let's try this side first okay so i still have to like turn it up a fair bit to see it does it sound better it does sound better okay let me try the other side i don't know if they sound better okay here's the thing is i have to still turn my audio up to like more than halfway to hear something right now put them both in okay there's one sound better than the other this one does sound a little better okay but they're still not like they were when they were brand new yeah so i hope these are charged up enough these are from pod swap let's see if we can oh wow it's way louder already oh really yeah insane difference oh this sounds way better like i can turn it down to here and it sounds loud enough clearly i've failed haven't i yeah i'd say so okay well we have a conclusion very sad one so i wasn't able to do it myself i'm quite surprised and disappointed emma and emily at pod swaps certainly know what they're doing me on the other hand don't god this makes me want to keep on trying until i get it the disposability of airpods has been an issue since they came out almost five years ago so it's no surprise that we'd want to keep them running as long as possible and as annoying as it may seem i think maintenance is an important way to reduce the likelihood of your airpods getting filled with earwax so if things do get bad and your batteries thin pot swap offers what seems to be the most cost effective and environmentally friendly way of breathing new life into older airpods which is remarkable considering how tightly these things are glued together thank you for listening into this Mac Address if you too are a producer of earwax give us a like and if you've clogged up a set of earbuds before might as well subscribe i'm also curious if any of you have found a really great working solution to this problem let me know in the comments below because i'm desperate to figure this thing out"}