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ipekss Author

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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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ipekss Author

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Posted on Jan 29, 2023 3:50 AM

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

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Jan 15, 2023 6:44 AM in response to ipekss

I found solution for this issue on mac rumors forum, and it fixed it for me.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/solution-for-airpods-pro-2-case-battery-drain.2363995/

Jan 24, 2023 12:27 PM in response to Sled_hed20

how to make the case totally dead? when It reaches 1% case doesn't give power to headphones and stays alive

Mar 6, 2023 3:36 PM in response to Fredo48

Mar 16, 2023 6:50 AM in response to Kotiko10

It should be there, "notify me when left behind" and the problem is within that function because my airpods case last days now without losing not even 1%

Jan 19, 2023 9:26 PM in response to mihajlo32

I saw that too. It didn’t work for me.

Jan 19, 2023 9:28 PM in response to Sled_hed20

It doesn’t make sense but I’ll try that. Is your case still connecting on find my? If not, it’s just find my not working. If that’s the case, battery won’t drain. Which defeats the purpose.

Jan 20, 2023 5:27 AM in response to SkyHopper888

Yes, my case is still connecting to Find My.

ipekss Author

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Jan 25, 2023 3:59 AM in response to SkyHopper888

I tried this as well but no help. And it is such a shame if we will not be able to use a feature that we paid for to use another feature which we paid for as well:/

ipekss Author

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21 points

Jan 25, 2023 4:00 AM in response to Sled_hed20

will def. try this bunt I hope it will not "damage" the battery as the battery health/life is counted by full battery charge cycles, as well as I am concerned.

Fredo48

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Feb 7, 2023 3:52 AM in response to ipekss

But with Find My off don’t you have to reconnect/add the Airpods to Bluetooth every time you want to use tgem, then the need to remove when done using??

Feb 7, 2023 8:24 AM in response to Fredo48

Turning off Find My does not turn off Bluetooth. It just disables Find My.

xbvsm

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Feb 8, 2023 9:37 PM in response to ipekss

My case lose around 10-25% per night without using airpods.Went to service and after 1 day they replace the case with a new one.They said it's a case problem.

Fredo48

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Feb 10, 2023 11:14 AM in response to SkyHopper888

Frustrating! Let us know what they tell you but I am not optimistic that there is a solution. Still no new upgrade of airpods 2 version number - other airpods have the newest version.

Feb 25, 2023 8:15 AM in response to randyfromwatertown

I don’t get it after unpairing and repairing the ipods I only lost 15% of the case battery ???? In two days ,

but it’s true that I didn’t use the AirPods at all during those two days !

Feb 26, 2023 1:21 AM in response to bournandel

Forget to mention find my is turned on for the AirPods , and firmware is 5b58…

Airpods Pro 2nd gen case battery drain