It’s literally as simple as them behaving far worse and different to APP1, I can make a direct comparison. You cannot explain that difference and haven’t so far.
With Find My on, mine are noticeably worse than my older iterations. By a lot. With Find My off, they’re mildly worse than older AirPods I’ve owned, but I chalked that up to the case broadcasting its battery life now, whereas in the past it only did that via the AirPods when they were in the case.
Yes, but they started working normally 7 or 8 days ago, it wasn't anything related to 16.2. I had tried everything that everyone had been suggesting on here and none of it ever worked so I just gave up on it and was just waiting for a new firmware update to hopefully fix it, but then suddenly they just started working normally without any sort of software or firmware update or anything at all. And I'm not one of those people that just thinks things have changed when they really haven't. My battery drain was super severe and it has literally just completely disappeared out of nowhere. Super weird.
40% during the night is excessive! What do you consider therefore as normal? If it is a drop of 1% per hour I would not consider that as normal. I still have turned the find-my feature off and I'm just loosing no more then 1 to 2% in 12 hours.
Every single night for the past week they have shown the exact same percent in the morning as they did when I went to bed. No drain at all whatsoever. I usually charge them to 100% before bed so that they're ready to use in the morning, and every day they've still been at 100% when I woke up. And the one night that I went to bed with them at 90%, they were still at 90% in the morning. It has been a real life Christmas miracle. haha Because before this it was a massive inconvenience with how dramatic the battery drain was. Whenever I had long flights I had to leave them on the charger until right when I was about to leave, otherwise half of the battery would be gone before I even got to the airport. It was ridiculous.
It is related to that because everyone’s AirPods are always draining battery, even in the case. But losing half the case in two days is evidence of a problem. While in the case, the AirPods enter a sleep mode and drain much slower than out of the case, and then the case tops them off so that when you do use them they’re at 99 or 100 percent.
Everyone’s AirPods are constantly draining and charging in the case. That’s normal. What’s not normal is losing 20+ percent over night. Normal is closer to 5-6 percent.
They should not be charging if they are already at 100% and if you turn off Find My, they don’t charge any longer and your battery case lasts much longer.
That’s not accurate. Just like the AirPods Max and every AirPods that came before these (with or without Find My), they’re constantly draining battery, but when in the case they drain less because it’s more of a sleep mode. Back when I first bought AirPods 2 years ago, I was confused about the battery drain when not in use as well, but I was set straight on the Apple forums. The only way to kill that drain is to remove the AirPods from your account and then hold the reset button on the back of the case.
Green lightning = fully charged/not charging but in case
