This AirPods hack is a game-changer for frequent flyers – how to find it in your iPhone settings

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Your AirPods can detect when you’ve fallen asleep and pause your media.
• The AirPods likely use an accelerometer, not a heart rate sensor, to detect when you’ve fallen asleep.
• The feature requires a pair of AirPods Pro 2, Pro 3, or AirPods 4, and iOS 26.

If you’re like me, the one place you can fall asleep upright is on an airplane, but you need a pair of noise-canceling headphones to do so. Most of the time,…