One AirPod not charged from case?

[jclardy]

This just happened this morning, I went to put in my Pros and only the left one would connect. I put the right one back in the case and tried to check the battery, but nothing showed up on my iPhone. I then put the left one back and it displayed the battery of both - the right one was at 6% battery. They've been in the case overnight, but it seems the right one somehow didn't make a connection? I looked in there and the contacts are clean, is it possible that they can not "seat" properly when the case is closed, causing them not to charge?

It is charging now, but just annoying having to wait for a single AirPod to charge before I can use them.

Anyone else run into this issue with the pros?

 

[Otflyer]

Nope!

 

[Bazooka-joe]

My third...yes third set of Pro's arrived on Tuesday and the right airpod refused to charge so that is winging its way back to Apple via UPS and I expect the replacement to arrive next week. Build quality of the Pros is significantly worse than the Gen 1 & 2's in my opinion.

 

[8CoreWhore]

This has happened to me with the Pros and the Amateurs. I have to take them out, put them back in, do a rain dance, and hope for the best. Look closely at your case cover, is it closing 100% ? Mine isn't.

Irregular charging can shorten the overall life of the battery... with no repair available. I will never buy a new bud for the battery, and have a disparity in battery health between the two. Nope.

 

[mavis]

I've had this happen once with my AirPods Pro, and several times over the past three years with both gen1/2 AirPods. It's irritating, to say the least. I usually wait a second when I put them in the case, to watch for the charging indicator to flash amber for each bud. It's infrequent enough that it's not a serious problem, but yes - very irritating when it does happen.

 

[bwb]

This seems to happen to me regularly, even with the latest AirPods Pro firmware. Right will sometimes show substantially lower % than the left. I'm not certain, but I believe it's a software charge reporting problem, and hopefully nothing that will impact the battery itself, though I'm not sure.

For example, I used the AirPods Pro for maybe 30 minutes and only discharged to 85% or so this morning, and it's been in my backpack since then for a few hours. I just took them out and left is reporting 100% while right is report 41% and was climbing up in charge at about 3-4% per _second_ as shown on the iPhone. In the past when it's reported low like this, I've worn them and seen the left draw down at the expected rate (~20% per hour) while the right's percentage didn't change at all in that time. By initial % the right should have ran out of battery power when the left was at 60%, but it did not. I do also have an issue where the right occasionally won't connect when I first put them on, until I put it back in the case and take it out again.

I just did a factory reset and re-pair of the AirPods Pro, and I'll report back if it resolves it. The battery % did immediately jump to 100% for both after the factory reset.

EDIT: Right after I typed that, now the _left_ is showing 60% charge and climbing quickly suddenly.