These instructions apply to most earbud models with removable tips or covers.

How Do You Change Ear Tips on Earbuds?

Heres how to change earbud tips.

Four replaceable earbud tips.

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Locate your earbud tip replacements.

Many earphones include free replacement tips in the package or box.

For example, if Sony makes your earphones, buy Sony earbud tips.

Four new earbud tips.

Remove the earbud tips you want to use from their packaging.

Pick up one of your earbuds.

Holding the earbud firmly in one hand, firmly rotate the removable tip.

A pink Sony earbud being held in a hand.

While rotating the tip, begin to pull it off of the earbud.

The process is like pulling a washing glove off of a hand.

Pick up the replacement tip and insert the earbuds stick into its center.

An ear tip being removed from a pink earbud.

you’re free to now repeat the process for the second earbud.

How Should Earbud Tips Fit?

Earbuds usually fall out due to the tip or the earbud itself being an odd fit for the ear.

An ear tip being twisted off of an earbud by two hands.

Changing the earbud tip for a larger-sized one can often prevent the earbud from falling out.

If your earbuds always fall out, a pair of sports earbuds may be an ideal solution.

Switching toearphones rather than earbudsorheadphonesis also a solid option.

An earbud and an ear tip being help in two hands.

Press on the new tips until they snap into place.

Remove your earbud tips.

Take a cotton swab and drench it in a solution of isopropyl alcohol slightly diluted with distilled water.

A new ear tip being placed on an earbud by two hands.

Rub the swab over and around the earbud tip until it’s clean and sanitized.

An earbud with a new tip on it.

Sony’s WI-SP510 Wireless In Ear Headphones for Sports

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