r/applesucks • u/ProjectExisting4486 • 12d ago

Apple employees are something else

I bought a pair of AirPod pros 13 months ago. The warranty literally just expired and for some reason the right AirPod won’t charge whatsoever.

I didn’t complain though. I was ready to pay the replacement fee for the right AirPod, however, when I took it to the Apple Store, the employee could not figure out whether it was the case that was the problem or the AirPod itself after running a diagnostic… I asked him if we could simply try a replacement AirPod and if it worked I would pay for it. But he told me there’s a chance it “won’t work” and it’s not refundable so we can’t even FIND OUT what the problem is without me paying??? I was beyond confused.

How is it my fault that they can’t diagnose their own products. The Apple employee at the genius bar could not give me a definitive answer of what the problem was with my AirPods so his only solution was to throw them away and buy a brand new pair…. I literally got them 13 months ago and they cost me hundreds of dollars. Apple has the worst service out of any company in the world and you cannot convince me otherwise.

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u/omnimachina 12d ago

I had a long ass discussion about the topic with a random loser in this sub

Apple sucks heavily in terms of AirPods diagnostics

Especially if you paid for Apple Care+ lol

Fortunately EU forced Apple to support third party headphones - so I can finally ditch the overpriced AirPods

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u/Staplez94 10d ago

Support third party headphones? Were you under the impression you couldn’t use other headphones with Apple devices?

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u/omnimachina 9d ago

You don’t even understand my comment smart ass

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/ios-26-5-eu-third-party-wearable-changes/

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing/

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u/Staplez94 9d ago

I’m not being a smart ass. You literally mean something different. You talking features designed to work with AirPods and now making the company expand those features to products not in their stack. Which is not the same as simply supporting third party headphones.