The AirPods Pro 2 have been out since 2022, and that is exactly the problem: most pairs in use today are a few years old, still wearing their very first eartips. If yours started slipping after months or years of decent fit, you're in the right place. The fixes below run from free to a few euros, in that order.
Why AirPods Pro 2 start falling out over time
Two things go wrong slowly. First, silicone ages: skin oils make the surface slick, and the constant squeezing in and out of your ears stretches the dome. A stretched size medium grips like a small. Second, the AirPods Pro's oval opening means the eartip can't rotate to find a better position; once the grip fades, it's gone everywhere.
And even when the eartips are new, silicone only touches your ear canal in a few spots. Every jaw movement flexes the canal, breaks the seal a little and walks the earbud outwards.
Free fixes, in the order to try them
- Wash the eartips. Pull them off, rinse lukewarm, dry completely. Removing the oil layer alone fixes a lot of slipping.
- Run the Ear Tip Fit Test. Settings, Bluetooth, tap your AirPods. If an eartip stretched, the test now fails where it used to pass.
- Go up a size. A worn medium often needs to become a large. Bigger presses on more skin and grips better.
- Twist-lock them in. Insert, then rotate slightly back and up so the eartip sits behind the ridge of your ear canal.
- Mix sizes per ear. Left and right ear canals are rarely identical.
The structural fix: memory foam eartips
New silicone buys you time; foam changes the physics. Memory foam expands slowly after you insert it and fills the exact shape of your ear canal, so grip comes from the whole surface instead of a few contact points. The seal also boosts what the AirPods Pro 2 are famous for: noise cancelling works measurably better on a sealed ear.
Generic foam eartips don't fit the AirPods Pro's oval opening, so we developed a version specifically for the AirPods Pro 2, shaped to keep fitting the charging case:
Foam Eartips for AirPods Pro 1 + 2 - Memory Foam Eartips - foamigo®from €14.95View ear tips
Fitting goes like this:
Sport, sweat and the AirPods Pro 2
Sweat is silicone's worst enemy: it turns a marginal grip into none at all. Foam behaves the opposite way, holding on when slightly damp. Dry your ears before a run, fit the eartips with the twist-lock, and they'll survive an interval session.
Not sure what fits your model? The fit finder matches eartips to any earbud; everything for the AirPods Pro 2 is listed there too.
About foamigo
From selling earbuds to fixing them
We sold thousands of wireless earbuds and kept hearing the same thing: great sound, shame they slip out. So we made memory-foam ear tips that take the shape of your ear. Straight from Amsterdam.
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