Airpods Pro 2nd gen case battery drain

Hello everyone, I have recently got AirPods pro 2nd generation and I believe I am experiencing case battery drain issues to some extent. I used the AirPods without ANC and listened to music for 2 hours and realized that the case dropped from 85% to 72% to charge the AirPods from 95% to 100%. With this pace, I can never reach the advertised 30 hours of play time even without ANC. Interestingly, it seems like the case is not losing much battery when it is in idle mode, so not being used. Is this normal behavior or do you think there is smt wrong with my AirPods?

Posted on Dec 12, 2022 2:59 AM

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Posted on Apr 12, 2023 6:13 AM

I had the battery drain issue but no longer have it. I still have “find my” and “notify when left behind” on. I charged my AirPods yesterday morning and they’ve just been sitting since and I’m still at 100%. The solution for me was draining the batteries in the case and AirPods completely then charging them. I waited for the case to no longer light up before charging. I tried everything else mentioned in this string and this was the only thing that worked. It seems to give the AirPods and case a hard reset. Unlike the iPhone there isn’t a way to just hit a few buttons in a certain sequence to trigger the hard reset.

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Sep 4, 2023 2:36 PM in response to ipekss

Has anyone noticed with the newest 6A299B the battery is lasting incredibly long, while AirPods are in the case, and not being used. I fully charged the case Sunday evening around five or 6 PM. It is now 534 Monday evening the day after and they’re still at 100% I have not charged or use them but usually they lose 5 to 10% charge average while not being used just sitting in the case. I know this is the complete opposite of batteries drain however, I’m a little confused, but yet happy that the battery is not being drained when the AirPods themselves don’t need a charge. I don’t know if they are just not taking charge now draining the case I don’t know if anyone does know what is going on I would love to find out.

Sep 5, 2023 3:38 PM in response to AlexD2291

I have not tested in use, for the moment I just want to measure the gap of how long it takes to drain all in idle mode vs. before they went to 0.

what I noticed is the first week I only lost 11% but now in 2 days I already lost another 6 as I am now down to 85.

the the lower the case level the faster it seems to loose, I guess to some extent it’s logic…

Nov 16, 2023 10:33 AM in response to ipekss

Well I bought them and l thought I’m so lucky because they said was an campaign and got it cheaper than usual.After I’m reading almost all the comments the issue comes from the factory, someone didn’t make the quality control. I am also very disappointed as I’ve been already once back to the store and told them about the issue which after the inspection is not wrong with them. How it’s possible from 100% overnight I’m finding the battery case with 62%. Now I went back to that shop to fix it, which probably won’t happen. If I’m not happy with this product why they don’t want to replace the AirPods or to give my money back? I have to travel 1 hour to the store and also they expect me to pay for the repair, this isn’t my fault and so far they won’t give me a solution for it.

Jan 16, 2024 11:21 AM in response to ipekss

I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE FOR ME TOO. Bought these AirPods within this year. This last few weeks they’ve been increasingly failing to hold a charge. Today for example, my AirPods were charging all night in a charged case. I opened them up in the morning for class at 10AM at 11:15 they gave me a 10% warning. They’re supposed to last 4-6 hours… CHINGATE APPLE. YOUD THINK YOUR TERRIBLE ETHICS WOULD AT LEAST PRODUCE GOOD PRODUCTS BUT NO THEYRE TRASH.

Apr 13, 2024 12:38 PM in response to ipekss

It’s like whenever my AirPods case is not on charge it’s completely off, the case Has 100% battery, but when I take it off charge the case is unresponsive, meaning that my AirPods will lose charge because the case isn’t on.


i have no clue why this is the case, when I press the button at the back I get no response, but when I plug it in to charge it shows on my screen that I have 100% charge. I’ve tried factory restarting, turning off my phone, as well as completely disconnecting, I just don’t know what to do

May 27, 2024 2:46 PM in response to dlealval

"it is like having a car in your garage for a week and then the battery is drained without using the car. This is not acceptable."

Uhhhhh... leaving your car sitting around for a while without using it DOES drain the battery, depending on what type of battery you have. But most people have a car battery that will drain rapidly without use. That's like the whole point of trickle chargers and why cars have really powerful alternators in them (a single alternator can produce power up to 2500 Watt, and put out up to 300 amps)

May 27, 2024 11:05 PM in response to ipekss

Heyy, My AirPod pro case stoped charging since December last year, I remember always giving one more chance to you know let it charge for some time and nothing. I charged it for the first time in a long time and the case wouldn't turn orange(me thinking that it wasn't charging) boy was I wrong.. I opened the case and surprisingly it was at 3% but it was charging, the AirPods both were at 100% which has me thinking. Usually when the case is at 3% or lower the AirPods are like at 6% or 2%. I have no idea if its the case, or something but I wanna know if Apple can help me out.

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