Airpods Pro 2nd gen case battery drain

On your iphone's settings app, under your profile/icloud account, there is an airpods setting that pops up when you either have the case opened or the airpods are in use, if the airpods are in the case and the case is opened, you wont see it. Thats where you control the airpods settings, it has accessibility, audio accessibility, headphone accommodation, if headphone accommodation is turned on, turn it off.

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 solved the problem, sort of! Go into the settings for the AirPods and turn off the “find my” setting. It doesn’t take affect immediately. It took about two days before my phone popped-up that it was still tracking my AirPods. I said do not track anymore and my battery is maintaining power as it should. If you have to track your AirPods then you may have to deal with the battery drain issue.

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.

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

I did that I drain the AirPods to zero and the case to about 1% turn off notify me in the find me app and I’m still losing 18 to 20% a day.

I have now turned off find me completely, and it’s slowed to about 5% a day.

i bought my first AirPods ever like 5 month ago, had no experience, thought it’s okay. But after my case battery get to 4% after 3 hours of music and 3 days of not using them at all I start to google and found this topic. Trying to fix problem with turning off notification on find me app and it’s not really worked. I think good way to find out is this case or pods itself is to just leave pods not in case (turn off bt) and see if the case drops battery by itself alone

Have you tried already? How it goes? I was thinking to do the same and yeah I still think that it’s about pods not the case, main reason is that case try to keep the pods at 100% always , at the begging on pods it was showing charging even at 100% but somehow I fixed that and now it shows green icon when it’s fully charged. I’m gonna test it like you said above gonna put out the pods and leave case alone for awhile, I’ll be back with the answer later on

Yes, so what I did, I off this function to tell you when AirPods is too far and also I turn off Bluetooth completely in settings of my phone when not use pods. It stopped draining when I’m not using AirPods completely. In evening it was 71% and after turn off all this in the morning (after about 10-12 hours) it was still 71. Somehow when you turn off your Bluetooth only through bar (icon became grey) AirPods still connecting to phone and drain battery

This is a huge issue and I suspect Apple now knows it. I have first gen AirPods Pro and 2nd gen. If I charge both to 100% and leave them in a drawer, the first gen will remain at 100% for weeks, If not months. The 2nd gen lose 20% over a few days and keep dropping.

I spoke to Apple support and kept asking them for some documentation about what the standby time should be on the 2nd gen and they couldn’t refer me to anything but the pages that say you should get 30 hours of talk time.

I argued that it’s not 30 hours of talk time if you wait a week to start talking and this is a huge problem for people like me who don’t use them every day and don’t expect to charge them until they’ve used them for 30 hours.

Multiple phone and chat support assistants were useless and I eventually got a Genius Bar appointment where they swapped them there and then. I suspect they know there are issues.

I immediately charged the brand new ones to 100% and left them. The first 2 days they showed 100% when I checked and I thought I was in the clear. The next day they showed 78%.

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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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So here’s how I finally fixed it on my AirPods. I did turn off “show in find my”. After that, I kept my AirPods in the case, turned off ear detection, and played music until both the case, and the AirPods were completely out of battery. The case would no longer light up. It took a while for that case to no longer light up. I let them rest for about a half an hour. I charged everything back up. It’s been three days. I’ve lost 2% of the battery. So far I’m going to say that’s a fix. I’ll follow up if it’s no longer a solution. This is the longest I’ve ever had them running with the least amount of loss. I also used them for about 15 minutes so some of that loss is based on the recharge.

I saw that 16.4 has a firmware update for the AirPods. Hoping that's going to fix things.

Re all the hacks of turning on and off "show in find my" and completely running the batteries down, it seems like a joke that we should have to do something like that to make a product work as it's supposed to. If you played music until they were out of battery, did you have a device sitting there playing music for 30 hours!?

What I found strange was that for the first 48 hours it would say 100% when I'd check, then the next morning it had dropped to 78%. I haven't yet seen it report anything in the 90% range.

It didn’t take 30 hours but it was probably close! I did have a dedicated device playing l music until they died. I agree that it’s ridiculous that we have to do all this to make them work but I want them to work so I’m willing to work on figuring it out! So far this seems like my best solution.

I just updated to the latest firmware 5E133.

It now has a “paused” state for Notify When Left Behind and when you tap it, it says:

“Notify When Left Behind is Temporarily Paused

You have not connected to your AirPods recently. This feature is temporarily paused to save battery life.

To resume using this feature, reconnect to your AirPods.”

so, I guess they’re aware of the issue and hopefully this update will result in an improvement.