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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Jan 29, 2023 3:50 AM in response to kurlik279

yesterday i tried this method. My case was 21% and the pods were at 100% when i started listening to music. Then i drained the pods till 72% and put them back into the case. I check an hour later and the pods were at 96% and the case was at 8%. Then i did not touch them again. After 18 hours i checked the airpods. The right airpod had 52% battery while the left one was at 0% and the case was completely dead. I don’t understand this at all. How can they lose so much battery and completely drain even when they are idle. The apple store is really far from my town and last time i went they claimed that everything was fine wit my airpods but this is really frustrating. I hope it resets itself somehow after this complete battery drain

Mar 15, 2023 11:40 AM in response to frustratedcstmr

I have bought AirPods Pro gen 2 from Amazon on sale 2 weeks ago , so I’m facing the same issue but there is no option like this , only “notify when found”

Also I found that, when I tried to kill case for new fully charge somehow earbuds loosing percentage without using, so I think if the earbuds loosing percentage without using that means earbuds is the problem for the case and not the case because case is trying to keep earbuds on 100% so it becomes that case draining the battery…


Mar 20, 2023 5:46 PM in response to nicss8

nicss8 Said:

"[...]in my mind, I am also thinking that it could be the hardware faulty that’s why I consider to buy a new pair. Strangely, the rest of apple audio devices has new software but not with airpods pro 2nd gen. I think it was not fair to us who are facing this issue."

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To the OP and ALL Participants...

Leave Apple feedback, as I mentioned in my previous reply. They will not know of this, if you do not report it. Period.

Mar 21, 2023 3:46 PM in response to nicss8

Keep trying it, leave the airpods fully charged in the case. The case doesnt matter if its somewhat drained, as long as it has some charge. Write down the percentage of the case and wait a few hours, it might lose 1% because it might have been almost about to change: example, if the case was at 92%, it could be almost at 91%, so you can probably see that drop pretty fast, but it shouldnt drop anymore till maybe a day or 2 after.

Apr 11, 2023 6:32 PM in response to Heffy301

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.

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