Source please? Never heard they were designed that way. All batteries will degrade over time, so yeah after year or two there will be some level of degradation.
All batteries do degrade over time, mostly through use. Airpods are always draining battery (when connected to an Apple account). That's why when they're out of the case and not being used they drain quickly and it's why when they're in the case, the case drops battery percentage because it has to constantly top the AirPods off. Every other bluetooth earbuds I own go to sleep when in the case and barely hit the batteries whereas Airpods do it constantly.
Li-ion are not Ni-Cad.
From my testing, yes it appears to be the case. I've tried to remove them from my Find My account, and you can do it if you hide the Airpods from being detected, but the minute you use them again they're added right back to the Find My account. There's no way to turn it off completely.
They're not designed specifically to kill the battery. They're designed to work in a way that does kill the battery much much quicker than normal. Draining the battery constantly even when not in use and not giving the user a means for stopping it from happening is awful design. And again, it's why AirPods batteries are at 40-50 percent capacity after a year or two of use.
Prove me wrong. You can't. Because guess who agrees with me? Yep, Apple support are the ones who verified the behavior I was seeing was normal.
There's absolutely no reason to not be able to turn off Find MY if I dont want to use it in order to save battery. And there's no reason it should be listening for Siri when it's in the case. The amount of battery drain I, and many others on many forums discussing AirPods, am seeing is excessive. So yes, if they were designed to constantly drain the battery, then yes they WERE designed to be that way. But I'm done having a battle of semantics with you. The fact remains that if they were designed to constantly be using FIND MY even when in a case, then they were absolutely designed to constantly drain the battery.
What more proof do I need other than the countless battery threads here, on Apple Official forums, and reddit's AirPods forum? What more proof do I need than actually using these things for years and seeing the same behavior. If anything, prove yours don't exhibit this behavior. I won't hold my breath, because you can't. This is how they're designed to work, and that's fine if you know it going in. It's those of us who didn't know it and were worried that we had faulty AirPods because they kept draining when not in use.
