AirPods Max do not stay on for two hours :: B/S detection
by Volker Weber
One of the biggest bogus claims about AirPods Max operation has been the claim that they stay on for two hours before going into sleep mode. Check reviews and Youtube videos for this b/s. I have been asking everybody who claimed it where they got this information from. Accordiing to Apple, this is what's really going on:
- Your AirPods Max can get up to 20 hours of listening time, talk time, or movie playback when you have Active Noise Cancellation and spatial audio turned on. If you charge your AirPods Max for 5 minutes, you get around 1.5 hours of listening time.
- If you set your AirPods Max down and leave them stationary for 5 minutes, they go into a low power mode to preserve battery charge. After 72 stationary hours out of the Smart Case, your AirPods Max go into a lower power mode that turns off Bluetooth and Find My to preserve battery charge further.
- If you put your AirPods Max in the Smart Case when you're not using them, they go into a low power mode immediately to preserve battery charge. After 18 hours in the Smart Case, your AirPods Max go into an ultralow power mode that turns off Bluetooth and Find My and maximizes battery life.
I have never run into any power issues with AirPods Max. The only time I put them in the case was when I dropped them in a bag. And since the case is really tiny, I had no issue actually carrying the case, which I have never done with any other case.
Not relying on a physical off switch has a major beneft. You won't forget to turn them off. And with AirPods, they are on the second you put them on.
