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Airpods case battery drain

Hi all,

start the morning with 100% of charge for airpods and case.

Never use them for 1 day. Now I have airpods 100% charge but the case have 70%. Is normal????


Sorry for my english...

iPhone 7, iOS 10.2

Posted on Dec 22, 2016 3:41 AM

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Dec 27, 2016 11:55 PM in response to Alex_Florence

I read all this thread and I don't know what is a "normal" drain.

Yesterday I used my airpods exactly twice during 1 hour and yesterday evening Airpods was at 100% and case at 72%.

Based on these data, impossible to charge 5 times the Airpods from 0% to 100% as Apple says!

But is it normal compared to all of you? Or do somebody have better results, for example case at 90% for this kind of use? I don't speak about the drain while we aren't used them.

Dec 28, 2016 3:11 AM in response to ingybingy

Ok so I've tried a few things now. Basically I was seeing a 100% case and Pods goto a 50% case and 100% pods (having fluctuated between 95-100% constantly while in the case) after 24 hrs no use. Checking the case at intervals and not checking the case for 24 hrs made negligible difference. Turning phone off at night etc also had no effect. While in the case the AirPods seem to remain on continually drawing from the case battery. Removing the pods from the case for 24 hrs and the case held its charge further support my theory that the pods aren't shutting down despite the Apple manual saying they do while in the case. Therefore the only way I could get 5 charges from the case would be to have the pods out, drain, charge in the case and remove as soon as at 100% etc and repeat. So either this is what Apple mean when they say you can get those n

Dec 28, 2016 5:58 AM in response to Alex_Florence

i'm seeing this too, rapid battery discharge when not in use. it appears to be the pods discharging constantly.


first off let me state that it is normal for the pods to charge themselves while in case, that's even in the paper guide. they top off to 100% while in case.


so i did a test, i let case discharge to 0 then left pods in closed case and monitored pods before bed: 88%, and in morning: 53%. about 8 hours.


would not expect this amount of energy usage when inactive. my other point of reference are bluetooth Platronics which have a 10-hour lifespan and last about a week of gym use before charging.

Dec 28, 2016 9:00 AM in response to deggie

I gave up on this iPhone battery issue. Apple support seems to have no clue. My iPhone 7 has this hissing sound and all i have been getting is lame responses. So instead of cribbing i started living with it.


I so very excited for AirPods, need to figure out this battery drain problem. It would get really annoying if every product from apple(few in the lot) is weak on battery.

Dec 29, 2016 1:40 AM in response to amarendranath

I'd disagree with the support monkeys. I'm still gathering facts and evidence to bash them with before raising my case. They'll just be following a stock script as no one will have approved any other kind of response as it's been Christmas / New Years etc.


I've posted earlier saying that in 24 hrs I loose 50% case charge while the pods fluctuate between 95-100% charge. This implies they aren't shutting down when in the case.


So 50% over 24 hrs is approx 2% per hour drop. Which is high to me for something that should just be trickle charging.


I've charged them back up to 100% and unpaired them on the phone and case (forgetting this device on phone and holding the button on the case so both ends of the connection are reset) after 12 hrs I've only lost 2% off the case. So a loss of 0.16% per hour. Much more acceptable! Implying when unpaired the pods are shutting down in the case as there is no connection and they're just getting trickle charged. That's more what I'd expect to be normal.

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