The best Black Friday AirPods deals are already here folks. It was hard to say what we were going to get this year with the brand new AirPods Pro 3 in the mix and with early deals all focused on AirPods Pro 2, but the entire lineup of Apple's current-generation buds are now sitting down a the lowest prices ever - AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4 with ANC, and AirPods 4.
As mentioned above, there was a bit of a frenzy for the previous AirPods Pro as part of the early Black Friday deals nearer the top of the month - there are still plenty of folks out there that love a deep deal on the, frankly, still quite compelling AirPods Pro 2 (at the right price anyway). But with the major Black Friday Week sale now live at Amazon, Apple's latest and greatest are sitting at the lowest prices we have ever tracked.
While we have seen Amazon's official listing linked above already sell out once on the AirPods Pro 3, it remains the most reliable source for these deals. The Best Buy Black Friday Week sale is matching the price on the AirPods Pro 3 right now, but its deals on the two AirPods 4 sets have jumped up in price now and are no longer competitive enough to even consider (unless you have some Best Buy store credit laying around anyway).
Yes, yes they very much are...as you can see above. Deals on Apple's current-generation lineup of AirPods started to go live earlier in the month, but it wasn't until 1 a.m. ET on Thursday when we saw our first notable discount on the highly-sought after AirPods Pro 3, and the deals on AirPods 4 there after.
Again, yes, very much so.
There is this whole "early" BlackFriday thing to worry about every year - retailers launch deals waaaaay ahead of Thanksgiving and you can't help but wonder if it's just some ploy to get you to pull the trigger at a higher price than they will be in the coming weeks. This is, in some cases, true, and a good reason to keep an eye on 9to5Toys where we literally do nothing but track prices and feature deals on the most popular gear every day of the year for the better part of two decades, but these Black Friday AirPods deals that are live right are good - very good.
We did not expect much in terms of price drops on AirPods Pro 3 - they are after all one of the newest and most popular items on the internet, so landing any kind of discount here is notable. But AirPods 4 from $80 is wild. AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation at $100 is nearly insane. That's current-generation Apple tech at 44% off - landing current-generation Apple anything this close to 50% off in brand new condition from a trusted retailer is very rare.
It is Black Friday, and the AirPods (along with anything else on the internet) could drop lower at anytime, anywhere, but it is very hard to imagine the AirPods 4 models dropping any lower than this - this is already the second drop of the week, and the best prices ever offered at Amazon, and even if the AirPods Pro 3 go any lower, it can't possibly be by more than $20 - we will be very, very surprised if they drop below $200.