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jclardy

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Is there any way to check the battery health of AirPod's? I feel the life of mine have dramatically dropped in the past month or so. I bought them as soon as they were available, so they are about a year old now.

I use them for Voip meetings connected to my Mac, and I don't know if it is the mic or what, but I only get about 45 minutes of battery after taking them out of the case. Luckily I can just do a swapping dance, and keep one up while the other is down. I am watching the battery drop in pretty much real time, around 1.5% per minute.

Should I take them into an apple store? Is there any battery health guarantee? I'm planning on buying a new pair, but only once they actually get updated. Apple advertises 2 hours talk time on a full charge, but I'm less than half that now. Anyone else seeing similar battery degradation?
 
If you want a longer talk time, use the Mac's internal microphone. I would also like to know about the battery health of my AirPods, I think keeping them at 100 % the whole time is not good for battery health, you should have an option to keep them at 60 % and charge them to 100 %, whenever you need it.
 
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