Airpods Pro 3 - Battery Bugginess

Purchase date/location: Best Buy, Sep 19


I started using them this morning with the Airpods and case battery at 100%. After about two hours of use in ANC mode (music playing for about one hour), the left Airpod was down to 54% but the right one was still at 93%. Both Airpods were in my ears the entire time.


  1. Is it normal for the left one to drain so much faster than the right one?
  2. Why is the battery status indicator going crazy on my phone? See screen recording gif below.
  3. Bonus question: how come the 3s have the generic headphone icon, while my pros 1 have a custom Airpods icon? It's a bad look on that iphone status widget seeing three generic headphone icons. Can't tell which one is the left Airpod and which is the right..



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AirPods Pro 3

Posted on Sep 22, 2025 10:53 AM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2025 1:06 PM

They must be fake airpods, because there is no such thing as thing as “AirPods Pro 3s” (Unless it was you who named it that) and the fact that the widget is going nuts and it is coming up with earphone logo.

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