AirPods Max battery drains only slightly faster outside the case

Apple hasn’t added a power button on the AirPods Max, so there’s no definitive way to turn them off, but Apple says that by putting the headphones in the included Smart Case, they’re in an ultra-low-power mode.

That has raised a lot of questions about what happens to the ‌AirPods Max‌ when they are not in the case but not being actively used, so we ran some tests to find out what’s going on.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee (aka MKBHD) has said that the AirPods Max will go into sleep mode after about two hours if just taken off the head and placed somewhere, and it appears that the AirPods Max will remain actively connected to a iPhone at the same time.

Yesterday morning at 9:00 am Pacific Time, we connected the AirPods Max to an iPhone, played a song, then pulled it out and set it down on a desk. At this point, the battery was 63 percent.

At 10am, the ‌AirPods Max‌ were still connected, and the same was true before 11am. During this time, the ‌AirPods Max‌ dropped to about 62 percent around 10 a.m. and then stayed at that level until 11:26 before the battery dropped to 60 percent.

At 12:00 noon, three hours later, the ‌AirPods Max‌ remained connected to the ‌iPhone‌ via Bluetooth and did not disconnect or go to sleep. During this time, the wasiPhone‌ was in use for various activities and also in a rest mode where it was not being actively used. The ‌AirPods Max‌ were left alone and not touched.

Over a four-hour period, the ‌AirPods Max is has not been disconnected and the battery life has decreased by a total of three percent.

With a second set of ‌AirPods Max een and another ‌iPhone‌ that had been set aside and not used, we left them together for more than two and a half hours and saw the same battery life decrease by two percent. YouTuber Andru Edwards did a similar test and saw the battery drain three percent over the course of 10 hours while the AirPods Max sat on a desk.

After following the ‌AirPods Max‌ for four hours, we put them in the case at 1:00 PM. mention.

We left the ‌AirPods Max‌ in the case to drain the battery in Apple’s advertised “ultra low power mode”. From 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, the AirPods Max deflated about one percent in the trunk. The battery was at 60 percent when they got into the suitcase at 1:00 AM and 59 percent when they got out of the suitcase at 5:00 AM.

Playing music for an hour on the ‌‌AirPods Max actieve with active noise cancellation seems to drain anywhere from four to five percent. Andru Edwards saw that the battery drained in 10 hours and that a set of ‌AirPods Max‌ stayed out all night, we saw a total of 8 percent battery drain, so the amount of listening time you lose will vary.

So while the AirPods Max To do needing the case to go into a power saving mode which is the equivalent of a sleep mode, leaving them out and being connected to your devices isn’t the biggest hit on the battery if you don’t want the hassle of putting them in the case and to take them out. However, if you want maximum battery life, put them in the case.

We still don’t have a definitive answer as to when the AirPods Max “sleeps” when out of the case, as they never seemed to disconnect from the ‌iPhone‌ in our tests without the case, but we now have a better idea of ​​what happened happens when they are used without a case.