H2O Audio Interval Waterproof Swimming Headphones for Apple Watch – Bluetooth IPX8 Underwater Sports Earbuds with Bass-Amplified Surge S+, 6-Hour Playtime

This is the only option for listening to Audiobooks (Audible) while you swim. Audible requires a registered device and there are no waterproof devices any more. Several years ago, I bought the AudioFlood waterproof iPod Nano. Last year, it finally gave up the ghost. So, the only option is to use a Bluetooth device with the Apple Watch. I find I swim longer when I am caught up in a good book. I bought the H2O Interval and loved them. After almost a year, the earbuds started to crackle became barely audible. I contacted support at H2O Audo hoping to get them repaired. The people were very helpful and pointed out that they were still under warranty. During my conversations with them, I mentioned that I wear hearing aids (Old guy swimming for 60 years) and if they needed to be replaced them, I would probably buy the newer bone conducting option. I returned them on RMA. They came back a week later and... They sent the bone conduction version! Wow! Better than ever! Observation: The wires connecting the bone conduction speakers are heavier and appear to be sturdy and more durable. At first, there was some concern because the sound was a little fuzzy when held by my goggle strap. As soon as my head went under the water, the sound quality was great. My theory is that with my head out of the water, the goggle straps don't hold them securely against the bone so they vibrate on both inner and outer surfaces. Once in the water, the water acts a backup to dampen the reflected vibration. The apple watch will not track laps while it is not on your wrist (bummer). H2O Audio now has a "My Swim Tracker" app you can download so you can count laps while swimming and listening to books. Summary: 1. Great product. 2. Tech support is helpful and amazing. 3. Get the app.

I purchased my first H2O interval on 6/27/21. It had the best sound quality and comfort of any swimming music player I had previously purchased. It completely stopped functioning on 2/13/22 and I immediately ordered another H2O interval and it functioned very well until 3/7/22 when the left earbud stopped producing sound. I then purchased my third H2O interval and paid an additional $10.99 for the 3 year ASURION warranty. It had the same failure mode as my second failed H2O interval 2 months later with the left side producing no sound. I thought the 3 year warranty would be honored and it wasn't. Amazon told me it was still under manufacturer warranty and I needed to contact the manufacturer to resolve the problem. I then got the run around and gave up. I spliced a good earbud from the first failed H2O interval onto the second failed H2O interval and I had swimming music again. But the left earbud stopped producing sound last week. Since the manufacture warranty was now expired on my third failed H2O interval, I though Amazon would now honor the the 3 year warranty and they did not. So I ordered my fourth H2O interval today. I did not buy the warranty since it is the essence of consumer fraud. I never thought music for swimming would get so expensive.

Its difficult to review an item when there aren't really any other in direct comparison to it. Sure, there's a whole swath of waterproof and swimming music choices, but there are no other that use an Apple Watch as its main source of audio (at least at time of this review). Generally speaking, you have your choice of a .00001 cent MP3 player from 1999 encased in plastic that you have to drag files onto like you're on the family computer at 9PM in the early 2000s - nervously wondering if that download from Limewire is 'actually' going to be NSYNC's latest album or something more nefarious. Alternative to that being the exact same MP3 player but this time wedged into the earpiece of a bone conducting headphone, complete with a horribly outdated proprietary USB A cable that provides the convenience of super slow charging + file transfers at a whopping 45kb/s. These headphones - while being lightyears ahead of most of the competition do have their drawbacks amongst their strengths. For this review I'm going to be sticking with the wired 'earbud' version, and not the bone conducting flavor, for reasons I'll describe later. Form wise, they're fine. They grip your Apple Watch snugly, they fit onto the straps of most goggles without much hassle, and they're contoured on the back to seat perfectly against the gentle curve of a homosapian skull. I have had my Apple Watch fall out once before, but I can attribute that to user error - because I was trying to fiddle with it while it was on the back of my head like Robocop trying to remove his brain inhibitor and it popped out and dropped connection while in the pool. Not a big concern. What is however more of a regular annoyance is putting the thing on at the start of my swim. about 4 out of 10 times its small plastic inserts that allow for a goggle strap to slide through works in reverse, and lets my goggles slip right out of it. I have tied a small piece of elastic around those connections so that my goggles don't do it anymore, but I think that depending on what goggles you have (I use the Speedo Vanquishers just in case you wanted to know) you may have thinner straps that just don't 'strap-on' so to speak. Battery life is good. No complaints. It'll outlast your Apple Watch 1000x over, but when you do have to charge it, it is annoying that you now have two separate things to charge instead of one. Additionally the proprietary charger (which I understand, you can't just put a USB port onto something that gets dunked into the water) sucks and is insanely easy to lose, which good luck finding a replacement. I suggest you superglue that thing into an outlet and never remove it just to be sure. The bluetooth connection is rock solid - with one MAJOR exception. I, like most millennials, am impatient and just can't spare the extra 30 seconds of waiting time because I have avocado toasts to devour and jobs to hop. Once you turn on the device (after the initial pairing setup), do NOT fiddle with ANYTHING for like...a minute or two. The more you fiddle with it, the slower and more painful the process is going to be to get it going. I think it takes that time to actually boot up whatever little tiny logic board its got in there and establish an actual bluetooth connection, and even though the device itself may say 'pairing' in that uncomfortable female robotic voice, she is NOT ready to pair until you've paid the time tax. I almost returned this device thinking it was dysfunctional because every time I turned it on, I expected it to start and pair as quickly as my AirPods or whatever, and instead was met with my music being stuttery, laggy, and intermittently disconnecting. This is a little tiny poor device, made out of cobbled Chinese grab bag assorted bits and bobs doing its very best to get you bluetooth. Just give it a minute once you turn it on before actually trying to start your music on your Apple Watch. Once it actually establishes connection it's there for good, and you won't have any problems. Music quality is where there is a STARK difference between the earbuds and the bone conducting. I've had both, and there aren't many pros to the bone conducting ones. The only reason I could see for one choosing the bone conducting is if you have wimpy baby ears made of tissue paper skin. The earbuds are sliiiiiightly more uncomfortable to wear, but have infinitely better audio quality, weigh less, are easier to finagle, don't flop around, and you look ever so slightly less like a dork wearing it than the bone conducting ones. Seriously, get the in ear ones, they come with like 8 different ear tips that you can swap out, so you can more than likely find one that works for you if the stock ones are too uncomfortable. These guys do work, and I appreciate that the connection from my Apple Watch lets me not have to download a bunch of random crap music to listen to with a bad USB cable. I can just let my swimming playlist on Apple Music auto sync to my watch and it's there for me, updated and unique every single time I swim. I swim a lot, and these do help with the monotony, and the drawback for having this luxury is minimal with this device. Yes, you look like a fart wearing these in the lap pool - but I will die on this hill that swimming headphones are worth it. I also think that for $100 it's well worth it in build quality, as I've tormented my set for a while now and its still running strong.

Reasonable price and works very well. This is the third one I have purchased. I swim a mile 5 days a week, so it gets heavy use. The first one lasted longer than I expected. The rubber seal eventually failed on the on-off switch. The second one failed at two months, with one earbud failing to function. I think it was fine, but be careful handling the device as it may be delicate. I have tried them all, and this device is as good as I have found, so I ordered a third. Avoid the Delphine. I had two of those, and they were devilishly hard to use and failed within a few months of use.

I ordered this about 2 months ago and I loved it. It worked exactly as expected, and made it really easy to listen to podcasts while swimming, without having to constantly be transferring files back and forth between my computer and an mp3 players. Unfortunately, the right ear bud has gone bad, and I fear the left ear bud is not far behind. It’s practically unusable at this point. I’m going to have to replace the whole thing after only a few weeks of use. It’s disappointing because at the beginning it really was a great product.

This product came highly recommended from a buddy of mine, who has been using it while swimming in a home swim spa. I was very excited to give this a try as I also have a home swim spa, and the monotony of swimming in it, despite being good exercise, was becoming more apparent to me. I wanted to be able to either listen to music, or listen to audiobooks through Libby. Unfortunately, there’s not an Apple Watch app for Libby, and trying to stream through the watch while swimming did not work properly. The watch kept disconnecting and reconnecting while I was listening which was very annoying. I ultimately settled on trying to listen to music downloaded to my Apple Watch, but because I could not keep the earbuds properly positioned, and because I continually got water between the earbuds and my eardrums, the music was muffled, and it was a continual frustration that interrupted my swimming workout multiple times. I spent as much time repositioning the earbuds and clearing them of water as I did swimming. Even trying to put the earbuds underneath a water polo style swim cap to keep them positioned and more water proof did not work. I ultimately returned this product in frustration. The Delphin with Hydroactive swim buds has been a much better option for me. The earbuds stay properly positioned and the sound is crystal clear. The down side is that this set up is $310, vs $99.

Really love this swim earbud product. Pairs great with my old Apple Watch. Earbuds fit well and come with multiple sizes. Sound quality is excellent. Use several times a week for Iron Man training swim distances makes the time go much faster! Have recommended to other friends in my triathlete training group, who also fell in love with this product. Better than an integrated MP3, because it pairs to Apple Watch through which you can stream Apple Music. Had one minor issue and customer service was excellent to deal with.

I bought this after careful consideration and research of many underwater mp3 types. The first unit arrived and it was already broken, with very unpleasant cackling in one earbud before I had even tried it in the water. After a long exchange with Amazon, I ordered a replacement unit rather than refund as I had already invested a lot of time and research into finding the right unit for me, and still hadn't even had the chance to swim with it. The replacement unit arrived but Amazon or the seller had tried to get me to ship the first broken unit back, but would not refund the full shipping cost, or provide a prepaid box. The buyer should not be expected to spend significant time, energy and their own money, finding a solution when the seller has shipped a faulty unit through their own poor quality control. The second unit arrived a few week later, and I finally got to use this one in the pool. With an over-ear swim cap the sound quality was fairly good (for an underwater player). Sadly, after THREE times swimming with it (around 45 minutes each time), one of the ear buds is again broken, giving off an extremely unpleasant cackling sound. Only THREE times!!! This product should never have gone to market. I have never written an Amazon review in over 10 years of using their website, but i am compelled to here. Please do not purchase this product. I am on vacation now, with 2 weeks of swimming ahead of me, and this broke within the first few minutes. I treated the product with great care, and yet it still broke in less than a few hours of use. Extremely disappointing when I had a whole holiday of swimming with music and podcasts to look forward to. One broken unit could be put down to chance. Two broken units is unacceptably shoddy!

Purtroppo grande errore. Il segnale è discontinuo e di pessima qualità. In più noto che le cuffie non si possono cambiare, quindi se si lesiona il filetto delle cuffie devi buttare tutto. Prezzo di 129 ma la mia valutazione é di 15 euro. Sconsigliato assolutamente

I originally (~1 year ago) purchased the H2O interval in ear headphone set; unfortunately it only worked for two weeks and developed a fault. The left channel ear plug was hardly audible, whilst the right channel is normal volume. I recently purchased the h2o bone conducting headset and have been very pleased with them over the last 3 months. They work very well connected to my Apple Watch and have proved totally waterproof down to swimming pool depths. They are used every day. The sound in the water is very clear.

Sounds amazing! Easy to use and ear buds stay in

Tienes que tener tu i Watch para que funcione

If you happen to own an Apple Watch and like swimming, this is a brilliant product !!! I've had several sets of swimming auido equipments over the last 10 years or so. Mostly I used an iPod Shuffle in a waterproof pouch with and audio jack through the pouch and special waterproof earphones. At times I had the H2O audio phones, which is where I learned of their good quality in water. This product is better than any I have used for swimming, The basic unit is good quality. I remove the beand from my Apple Watch and with a bit of fiddling at first, until I got used to it, I clip my Apple Watch into the unit. The unit then clips onto the rear band of my swim mask or snorkel. The initial bluetooth set-up was realtively easy and connecting to via blue tooth for each swim is very quick and easy. One connected via bluetooth I can easily start playing one of my special swim music playlists before I get in the water (starting a playlist once in the water is hard due to wet hands). The controls on the back og the unit strapped behind my head are easy to use in the water to stop/start music and adjust volume. The headphone quality is, at first, a bit tinny out of the water but amazingly good in the water. And after a few swims the sound (especially the bass) seams to improve as the waterproof diaphragms in the ear buds gain more flexibility. The one drawback is not with the unit, but with the swim app they make available. Its not great as it gives me lap totals at seemingly random times. I normally just use a timer on my watch. Overall an amazingly good product that greatly improves the quality and enjoyment of my swimming and snorkelling.