Sony’s best ANC headphones and earbuds are getting Google’s Find My Device

Sony has released caller firmware updates for its premium wireless WF-1000XM5 earbuds and WH-1000XM5 headphones that adds enactment for caller features introduced with the company’s LinkBuds Speaker, arsenic good arsenic compatibility with Google’s Find My Device network, perchance making them easier to find if they spell missing distant from home.

Sony announced its refreshed LinkBuds earbuds lineup a fewer days agone and introduced a wireless speaker. The LinkBuds Speaker is notable for a caller Auto Switch feature allowing it to instrumentality implicit playback from wireless headphones erstwhile users halt utilizing them. Currently lone 5 pairs of Sony wireless headphones are compatible with the Auto Switch feature, including the WH-1000XM5 and WF-1000XM5, erstwhile the caller firmware is installed.

The updates, which besides necessitate Sony’s caller Sound Connect app that was rolled retired this week, volition perchance besides marque it easier to find either instrumentality utilizing Google’s Find My Device network. However, Sony’s update notes that this diagnostic is disposable “only during dedicated Classic Audio connection.” Sony doesn’t elaborate, but that could mean that lone the headphone’s last known location volition beryllium disposable if they aren’t powered connected oregon actively connected to an Android device, oregon that Find My Device is not disposable erstwhile utilizing different Bluetooth transportation modes similar debased latency.

The version 2.3.1 update for the WH-1000XM5 headphones besides includes enhanced information features, portion the version 4.0.2 update for the WF-1000XM5 earbuds adds enactment for “Google Fast Pair done LE Audio precedence connection,” streamlining the process of pairing them to an Android device.