At The Verge, Chris Welch reported on this interesting rumor today about an update to Apple’s AirPods:

Apple’s next version of AirPods are expected to have noise-cancellation capabilities, and the new iOS 13.2 beta offers an early preview of what they’ll look like. As discovered by 9to5Mac, the beta build contains a glyph image of the upcoming AirPods. It’s just a 2D gray-and-white icon, but even that is enough to show that design changes are on the way.
The noise-canceling AirPods seem to have traditional ear tips that extend out from the white stems for a better fit in your ears. That’s a change from the first two models, which rest in your ears and allow in a lot of ambient noise.

I bought the original AirPods back when they came out in December 2016. Almost immediately, I fell in love with them. They’re some of the best earbuds I’ve ever had. Even if their sound quality isn’t stellar, there’s something so compelling about the fact that they just pop out of their little case and slip right into my ears.

At least, that’s the ideal. In reality, their shape doesn’t quite fit my ears, so they’re never really secure. They do okay if I’m walking and keeping my head relatively still, but I wouldn’t trust them if I were moving quickly, let alone running. In fact, I tend to just keep them in their case.

I’d be delighted if they came out with a redesign that used custom tips. That would give them a better fit for a lot more people, myself included. I’d probably order them on day one.