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AirPods Max Battery Drains Only Slightly Faster Outside of Case
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But it has active noise cancellation that the filter out the voices of poor people.😂😂
I’ve inserted a screen shot, but it can be seen in the YouTube video posted by max tech @ the 23:53 mark.
*edit* I stand corrected, it seems this just turned off Noise cancellation, not turning off the headphones entirely.
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It has 4x the battery of AirPods Pro, so it will have less charging cicles = it will last way longer. 5% (even if it was 10) of battery drain overnight won’t make any difference in that magnitude.
Maybe someone already mentioned but it’s a lot easier to start at only 20hrs and then improve on that as opposed to starting at 30.
For my schedule I would use these on the weekends which means it sounds like I would have to keep these plugged in every week just to use them on the weekend as opposed to just using a power button and not having to think about it.
For my schedule I would use these on the weekends which means it sounds like I would have to keep these plugged in every week just to use them on the weekend as opposed to just using a power button and not having to think about it.
If a device is completely turned off then the motion sensors wouldn’t have power to know when they are picked up again. They way all AirPods worked is that they are on enough to keep sensors alive and do basic processing to know when you put them on/in. But that takes battery and is why they are never completely off.
Do people who actually purchased these really think they are a success because they are “sold out”? It couldn’t be that apple decided to make a small amount to test the waters could it?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
I stand corrected, it seems this just turned off Noise cancellation, not turning off the headphones entirely.
I used it on several calls today and asked the first couple people how I sounded, they said I came through fine and clear.
That’s just for switching between modes. “Off” means it won’t be in transparency mode or ANC when you click the button, it will play default sound. It *may* have an impact on battery while listening, but it’s not turning off the device.
yeah, I realized that in hindsight and addressed it before your reply. I should probably update my original post.
just a bit of the topic comment 
😂 Here is where Apple designers got design idea. In case they were already born 😂.
In our 1985 Oscar nominee movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090257/?ref_=ttmi_tt
or see trailer
😂 Here is where Apple designers got design idea. In case they were already born 😂.
In our 1985 Oscar nominee movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090257/?ref_=ttmi_tt
or see trailer
I read somewhere that triple pressing the transparency button puts the AirPods Pro Max into sleep mode. Can anyone who has them yet this?
Edit: Answered above.
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Like the "Original" Home Pod these head phones will be a disappointment for Apple.
Overpriced, they sound ok but no better than headphones costing 150.00 USD and they look lame. Even the name AirPods Max is weak not to mention a case that looks like a small purse.
Overpriced, they sound ok but no better than headphones costing 150.00 USD and they look lame. Even the name AirPods Max is weak not to mention a case that looks like a small purse.
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The whole thing is a disaster from price to case to power...
...but I still bought it
...but I still bought it
I'm fine with this. I charge my headphones at the end of the day either way. It will be nice to pick up the headphones and have them work immediately instead of fiddling with the slow Bose app.
That’s a good point. Apple make a lot of successful products, which proves they’re incapable of making mistakes.
This article would do well to have a line graph included
You mean like this? So many people were repeating baseless claims I started my own experiment last night. The graph is power in % versus time in minutes. Each point is an individual time collection. The lines are linear least square fits. It was not a rigorously controlled experiment as I was basically going about life. But it does offer more time points.
For 15 hours I had it sitting out of the case on a table. It was connected to anywhere from 3 to 5 devices, but I was not using it. In that time it consumed 5% power... when you least squares fit it, the loss is about 1% per 3 hours. (the blue line)
Then I used it for 2 hours listening to a variety of things, you can see the steep decline marking faster power consumption, or about 5% per hour, or 1 % ever 11 minutes. (the orange line)
Then I took it off and let it sit again. There was a stepwise function that was strange, it seemed to go immediately into a standby mode, very little power drain for 15 minutes, and then it lost in a very short time, a few minutes, 2%. I am not sure this is real, it may represent the device battery recalibrating. In any event, after that observed drop, it started using power more slowly again, roughly at the previous slow rate, though I am going to collect more time points to confirm. (the grey line)
I have not tested it in the case for a long time, I can confirm it disconnected from all my devices when I did.
Measurements of these types ideally take days, not hours, to get better accuracy. But I think the trend is clear... out of the case the device will drain in 10 day. Using it, the 20 hours seems reasonable. More work needs to be done to figure out how fast it goes into a lower power mode when you take them off, but it certainly is not as fast as using them as some you tubers said without researching it and people here parroted.
Thanks MR for actually doing a test and giving us this data. I look forward to seeing (and sharing) more.
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"let's design a "feature" like better battery drain time for this lame product that nobody likes or wants."