AirPods Pro 2 Mic Quality – Very Bad

After a lot of testing and tweaking various settings – I seem to have much better call quality. I found it by testing Microsoft Teams which is what is exclusively used for my work. If you swipe down Control Center DURING a Teams call you’ll see a “Mic Mode” on the top right. By default this is set to “Voice Isolation” which works fine for iPhone/Speaker and indeed many other bluetooth headsets (including my Airpods Max and my previous Beats Fit Pro). But it’s terrible with the APP2. As soon as I set this to “Standard” the voice quality became “acceptable”. No sounding underwater or in high wind (even in a closed room). Just tested this on a 1 hour conference call and none of the other attendees complained this time.

I then made a few calls using Google Meet and Facetime – both showed the Mic Mode when in an active within a call – and it was set to Standard now. As soon as I flipped to “Voice Isolation” my APP2 audio sounded worse.

I dont believe the setting is available in standard phone calls. But Phew. I hope this is a bug that can be easily resolved, but for now the workaround seems to be fine for me.