Airpods Pro 3 battery drain on the case is too high

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Airpods Pro 3 battery drain on the case is too high

The battery drain on my APP 3 seems to be too high. For example I charge my airpods from 97% to 100% with the case having 35% battery when I start charging the earbuds and the case battery already drops to 30 with only charging 1% of my airpods. Then it ends up at 28% when my earbuds are fully charged. So the case took 7% of its battery capacity to charge 3% of my earbuds which is way too high. This is only one example I encountered just now but the battery always seems to lose way too much battery when charging the earbuds.

Anyone else having this issue and found a way to fix it?

Apple Watch Series 9, watchOS 26

Posted on Sep 22, 2025 12:04 PM

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Old Toad

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Sep 22, 2025 4:25 PM in response to ZedeX11

How long have you had the AirPods Pro 3? If less than 14 days take them back for a full refund - no questions asked and get a new pair.

If it's been over 14 days get a Genius bar appointment and have Apple check them out. They may give you a new case and re-pair them for you. I had trouble with my AirPods Pro 2 and ended up with a new case. Now they are perfect!

In the meantime try this: How to reset your AirPods and AirPods Pro - Apple Support

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Sep 23, 2025 11:31 AM in response to ZedeX11

ZedeX11 wrote:

The battery drain on my APP 3 seems to be too high. For example I charge my airpods from 97% to 100% with the case having 35% battery when I start charging the earbuds and the case battery already drops to 30 with only charging 1% of my airpods. Then it ends up at 28% when my earbuds are fully charged. So the case took 7% of its battery capacity to charge 3% of my earbuds which is way too high.

It is not “way too high”. The case is charging TWO AirPods, so that is 2% drop for each AirPod. Charge your case to 100% and see what happens.

And get over trying to micromanage batteries in anything, be it a computer, smartphone, tablet or AirPods. Batteries are very good at taking care of themselves. In this case you have only one data point, so you can’t even plot a line.

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ZedeX11 Author

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Sep 23, 2025 11:33 AM in response to Old Toad

Does this count from the day I ordered them or the day I received them? I ordered them on release day so that makes it 14 days today. But I only used them for 5 days now and wanted to test something like bringing the battery to 0% and charging them completely full as I saw this helped with the battery drain on the app2 in another thread. Also I am not sure if this is normal behaviour or not since I never had airpods before these so I can‘t compare. I tested it a bit further today to see if it is maybe the battery drain that I would get over the whole day when not using them but still I lost more battery % on the case then on the earbuds themselves while charging them which is weird. Next I will test how they behave if I use them for a longer time and charge a higher amount of battery. Over a timespan of 24 hours of not using them the case doesn‘t lose any battery tho.

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Sep 23, 2025 11:24 AM in response to ZedeX11

It is from the day they were shipped.

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