Airpods Pro 2nd gen case battery drain

This seems to be a problem with Find My draining the batteries on the Airpod Pro Gen 2 case. I disabled Find My under the AirPod Pro 2 Bluetooth settings. Now, the batteries on the case don't seem to be draining fast.

Although this is a work around, I don't believe that this is an acceptable workaround since Find My for the AirPod Pro 2nd Gen is one of it's key impacting features.

Yeah lol. Well the strange thing is that after I turned it on again, I had the airpods themselves and the case charged to 100% and it didnt drain at all for like 5 hours, but then I used the airpods and dropped the charge to like 49% then I put them in the case and the case dropped to 91% which to that point everything seemed about right. Then I left them sit there and 5 hours later the battery in the case was at 85%, so it dropped 6% in 5 hours without touching them and the actual airpods already been charged to 100%. Now after posting "never mind dont turn on notify me when left behind" I turned it off again and the drain stopped. At least we are pinpointing the problem, just hope Apple reads this lol

I have the same issue.

here is the fix that worked for me.

Forget Airpods Pro 2nd Gen from your bluetooth.

reconnect. Boom it’s fixed

basically the battery in case is always rights, its just the numbers which are showing wrong in the settings, its a software issue not a hardware issue.

I think this is the price to pay if you want to be able to find your case since the case has always to talk to the network to show its location however I find it s using way too much battery doing this to bad I turn find my off for the AirPods and I don’t have that battery drain again … sad this is not communicated by Apple …

It sounds about normal if it stops draining there. When you charge the airpods, it can well finish charging at the end of a % and will drop that 1% like right away even if the airpods are fully charged, thats normal. That extra 1% is sketchy, but if it stopped discharging, then it seems to be fine now. Give it more time without touching neither the airpods or open and closing the case, just check battery percentage on your phone.

Make sure to drain the AirPods all the way to zero also. I left both the case and AirPods at 0 for about 18 hours before charging them to full again. This method fixed my battery drain issues as it seems to give the case and AirPods a full reset. I also have Find My active and don’t get any drain issues.

Try draining the airpods to 0% then fully charging them, then make sure the "notify me when left behind" is off. The case doesnt matter if you drain it or not, it wont make any difference. I jad the same problem you did one time, turned off the "notify me when left behind" and the battery kept draining, drained the airpods to 0%, made sure the "notify me when left behind" and its fixed now, no issues since

Yeah, it loses about 1.5% per hour. There is no way it will give you 30hours of talk time at that rate. The quick "fix" is turning off "notify me when left behind" sometimes it wont work on the first try, turn it on again then turn it right off again. It will get fixed. Also sometimes it will return again, so just repeat the process and you are good to go. Its not a permanent fix as it is firmware problem. But at least the battery wont drain and have excessive wear for charging more than what you need.

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It’s an AirPod firmware update that pauses the Notify Me When Left Behind if you haven’t used them for a while. I guess that was the culprit.

After installing on both my 1st and 2nd gen AirPods Pro they’re now experiencing similar battery drain of 3% or 4% overnight.

I realised that I’d had “notify me when left behind” turned off for my 1st gen when I was doing previous comparisons. I don’t think I need that feature so I’m turning it off permanently.

I think the update must also involve some more granular battery reporting because previously I’d see 100% for 48 hours then it would suddenly drop by 20%.

Did you already update them to the new firmware? If so, forget the airpods on your iphone bluetooth connection and reset the airpods to factory setting (youtube on how to factory reset) then do the pairing process once again. The airpods pro2 have been fixed already with this new update

Yeah I noticed last week the battery drain was gone, and I double checked that parameter, notify when left behind, I did turn it off last week and since that the battery drain is gone.

Find My is not the problem, the problem is "notify me when left behind" Do you have "notify me when left behind" on?

I just discovered that you can turn it back on and all stays fixed, so your airpods can work as they should with no handicaps. 👍🏼 I been testing it for about 5 hours and my case has not drained at all, its been at 100% ever since. So thats the real permanent fix, turn off "notify me when left behind" and just turn it back on if you need/want it on. The fix stays fixed

I drained the airpods all the way to 0%, Did not do it with the case and this fixed the whole issue, now everything works properly with "notify when left behind" turned on an all. Seems like a permanent fix, lets cross our fingers something doesnt trigger it to come back again. SO YES, THE PERMANENT FIX IS TO DRAIN THE AIRPODS TO 0% CHARGE THEM FULLY AND THEY SHOULD BE PERMANENTLY FIXED!

I'm having the same issue, this thread at least reassured me that it's not just the fault of my particular airpods.

Reseting the pods & turning off the Find My seems to work for me as a workaround - I'm on 2nd day after doing so and so far so good, no excess drain.

Still hoping that Apple will fix it with future firmware update.