Different jobs, different battery drain
If your case is clean and the contacts are fine, there’s another reason one AirPod might still drain faster: they’re not doing the same work.
Depending on your settings, one AirPod is often acting as the main microphone for calls and Siri, while the other leans more on “Noise Control” features like active noise cancellation or transparency mode.
All of that takes power. So if one pod is doing more heavy lifting – listening for your voice, cancelling noise, handling more of the processing – it will naturally lose battery faster over time.
The fix is to share the workload instead of letting one AirPod be the “sacrificial battery” every single day.
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