Airpods Pro 2nd gen case battery drain

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.

Is that an airpod firmware or are you talking about the ios firmware? Also if you read through the thread, youll see that Im the one who discovered turning off the "notify me when left behind" would fix the issue, all other "fixes" are placebos. Not draining the battery, not resetting the airpods, nothing else works but turning off "notify me when left behind". Obviously turning off "find my" will also work, because you are actually turning off the "notify when left behind" by doing that. But the pinpoint problem is "notify me when left behind" by turning that off, you dont have to turn off the entire "find my" feature.

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.

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%.

The bug could well be that it was just not reporting correctly the battery percentage and not that it was actually draining the battery for reals? Who knows, I already updated in the early morning and i am doing some testing as we speak. I have "notify me when left behind" the case is at 95% and been sitting at that for a few hours now. Ill wait till the end of the day to see where its at, ill post my results. Either way, everybody should update to the latest firmware. It should fix something.

Today my airpods are working great since the firmware update. There are no battery drain after fully charged and surprisingly the optimized charging does back online!

note : I have turned on everything like normal even with the ‘notify left me behind’ feature

Yesterday after the update the case was at 100% and the airpods at 100%. I used the airpods for a while, they dropped to 79% charged them to 100% and the case dropped to 94%. So I left them like that for the rest of the day without touching them. In the next hours the case dropped to 92% then to 89%, at the time of my post it was when it reached 89%, that all happened within 5 hours without touching the airpods nor the case at all. Now after the 89%, it stopped! Did not lose any charge till after about 8-9 hours later it dropped to 88% and has hold there till now. Seems like it stopped draining, at least the extreme part of the drain. If it drops a 1% per 24 hours, I would call that acceptable. Im still testing as we speak.

Yes im also testing with everything on like they should be. Up until this post 6:27 AM my time, im reaching about 12 hours on 88% on the case. So it seems like its working properly. Lets cross out fingers.

Yeah, mines just dropped 1% since yesterday around 6pm, its 2pm the next day. So, 1% in more than 22 hours is pretty decent. Its obvious it has tu drain some battery with all the find my features, but 25% in 24 hours was really massive.

I have the Airpods Pro 1 gen and noticed a drain also recently. I updated to the latest firmware 5E133, but there were no update for the case like there was for those with Airpods Pro gen 2. I tried one of the tips mentioned by someone a while back saying to unpair the airpods and reset the case and set it all up again, will have to wait and see if it has helped. Will leave the airpods/case untouched for now and check again tomorrow to see how much it has drained. When I checked today after the reset both the buds and the case was at 98%.

So how is it going for you? As far as I can tell, case drops 2% within 24 hours. Thats pretty decent given im 80-90% of the time next to my airpods and the connection to my phone is always active and showing battery percentage, that must drain minimum battery. Im happy with these results

Yes the drain seems to be fixed for sure. But im having to issues, one is old and another one is new (new to me) the first one is that the percentage to the case on the settings, it disappeared again, no more battery percentage to the case, that problem was there and it seemed it got fixed with the update, buy now itd back. 2. Is now my airpods are not charging to 100%, they get stuck at 99%. Its not a big issue but its still a bug, not sure if both issues are related. Im going to drain my airpods and fully charge them to see if it fixes anything.

frustratedcstmr wrote:

Yes the drain seems to be fixed for sure. But im having to issues, one is old and another one is new (new to me) the first one is that the percentage to the case on the settings, it disappeared again, no more battery percentage to the case, that problem was there and it seemed it got fixed with the update, buy now itd back. 2. Is now my airpods are not charging to 100%, they get stuck at 99%. Its not a big issue but its still a bug, not sure if both issues are related. Im going to drain my airpods and fully charge them to see if it fixes anything.

I strongly recommend against fully discharging the batteries because Lithium batteries do not respond well to deep discharge. It worked for NiCd batteries but they were 30 year-old technology. The accepted wisdom for Lithium cells amongst experienced users is to try and maintain the batteries between about 30% and 80% for best overall performance. The consensus is for prolonged storage Lithium cells should be maintained in the 40-80% range by periodic charging.

You should also remember your Apple devices are mass produced without individual calibration, and the battery estimates are only an estimate. As a guide, expect the absolute accuracy to be within about +/- 5%, but the repeatability for any one device and measurement may be more like 1-2%. There is also an inherent +/- 1 digit error in the conversion from a measured analog value into a digital (numeric) value. In other words, your 99% display could be anywhere between 98% and 100% true value.

Going up above 80% is unlikely to cause immediate problems. It is acceptable if the device is going to use that power rather than remain at 100% for a long period, provided the cells are never allowed to charge above 100% capacity, because that is when thermal runaway becomes a risk. Everyone is familiar with the photos of a Tesla with fire trucks around it...

Going below 30% down to about 15-20% occasionally to meet a service need is unlikely to cause a problem, but I would never go (intentionally) below 10% unless it was needed for safety of life. Discharge of Lithium cells to the point where equipment shuts down tends to knock lumps out of the overall capacity.

I updated to latest update and turned off ‘find my’ as well.

I have recently only just purchased and after a day or 2 on old firmware, I opened case in morning and it showed 1% even though it was fully charged and showed individual battery percentage for each bud and one was like 13%

I updated and seemed much better as both charged to 100% and case charged too. I left about 2 days without using and opened again and said 100% for both the airpods and charging case so fixed I thought. But over night, the case has dropped 16%.

any ideas?