What happens when they're off and you try to use the 'Find My' app to locate them? Perhaps that's why Apple (wisely) selected to use low power and ultra-low-power states instead of an 'off' function.
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Apple Releases New '3C39' AirPods Max Firmware
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Fwiw, I notice the extreme battery drain problem when airpods max forgets to "disconnect" from the music source and not put itself into low power when it comes off my head (ie. I can still send music to play on it while it's sitting on a desk).
Resetting it by holding both top buttons until the led light flashes amber will reset the Airpods Max and fix the problem for a couple days until it happens again.
It's normally only supposed to lose 5% or so a day while sitting even without the case. That's worth it for me for the convenience of being able to put them on my head and having them immediately ready to go.
Resetting it by holding both top buttons until the led light flashes amber will reset the Airpods Max and fix the problem for a couple days until it happens again.
It's normally only supposed to lose 5% or so a day while sitting even without the case. That's worth it for me for the convenience of being able to put them on my head and having them immediately ready to go.
It’s not great, but I’ve found a workaround to the AirPods cutting out. If I’m using anything other than the iPhone with my AirPods (whatever variety), I turn off blue tooth on my iPhone. I’ve found this works with Macs & iPads really well. For some reason if you’re listening to other sources for a long time, all the different AirPods start to panic as the iPhone is priority. Turn off Bluetooth on the iPhone- No more stuttering. Apple really needs to fix this.
After a macOS or iOS update people claim that Safari is "snappier" and the performance improved.
Since the AirPods don't have Safari, it's just a nonsense joke.
You've posted the same bs troll complaint about 100 times since APM launched, give it a rest.
The "Safari is snappier" meme goes back to the early days of MacOS (OS X). The software was ahead of the hardware, and the OS had some issues with user interface snappiness, especially on older machines. After seemingly any update, people in the various forums would talk about whether things felt any snappier in the OS or not. After a few years of this, it kinda became a joke. : )
Spot on.
I'm happy to lose 10%, hell even 20%. Having them ready at any instant, swapping from iPad to Mac to Watch to iPhone all in under 20seconds is just unheard of from any other set of headphones (bar AirPods and wired ofc). You wouldn't ever need to do this, but the principle stands
Try that with another set of headphones and you're probably limited to two devices and would take far longer than 20s to get through 4 devices that quickly.
Green = they know better.
It’s such an Apple way to design a power system.
Too clever by half
Same for me, the story of degrading noise-canceling on the Airpods pro will repeat itself on Airpods max. Shame
ugh. can't get mine to update. Connected them to iPad, played music, took them off and let them sit. Both iPad and AirPods Max are plugged in and iPad shows them as connected but it's been 2 hours and no firmware update - still says 3C16. Switched them to iPhone and repeated - headphones are sitting and waiting....
Curious to see if this fixes my connectivity issues. I love the experience of these when they work, but sometimes (not often, but sometimes) they stutter and stop when I connect and play a track. Choppy oblivion until I remove/replace them on me head and/or force quit the Music app. I think it's a software issue. Here's hoping it's solved, I love the sound of these headphones!
Wow so much stuff for AirPods Max. But absolutely nothing for AirPods Pro. Plus AirPods Pro are actually better than the AirPods Max. AirPods Pro can beat the AirPods Max by battery life and more.
You use the original “find my”: your eyeballs.
I’d take the hit of not being able to use Find My in exchange for an easy way to fully shut them down.
I can see how smaller AirPods models are easier to lose but these are huge.
I had a problem with 1% battery life. Hadn't used the headphones for a while. Plugged them in to power and started thinking that they prolly have to get to 50% charge before updating, and sure enough I checked back on the firmware and it's gone from 3C16 to 3C39 firmware. Voila!
I am really hoping I don't get the battery drain problem anymore.
Hope yours magically update also.
They have been really great headphones overall. Noise cancellation is great, and the sound is good. VERY easy to pay between Apple TV and iPhone and MacBook Pro and iPads.
As for on off switch - probably do not need one - it's good for it to be on low power micro current standby I'd say - particularly for "Find My" - which I haven't had to worry about for these headphones yet, but for which an ON OFF switch could possibly cause problems. AirPods don't have on/off switches either right?
Yes. Posted pics in one of the other threads - mini-dents, even. Got a replacement pair (for a separate issue), but yes - they will dent/scratch.
Same here. I’ve tried leaving the headphones connected to iPhone and then iPad, and no update as of evening time. Will leave them connected overnight and hope they update then. I’ve never had to wait this long for other AirPods to update... Hmm.
Do you have Mac? I’m curious if when you put them in the case (I refuse to refer to it as the bra-case!) the Mac doesn’t see them while in it. I think that might be a source of some issues including the battery drain. At least the AirPods Pro which have been more reliable connection/stuttering/etc wise, when in the case they can’t really be seen by the audio output icon on the menu bar.