If you’re an iPhone user, the Apple AirPods Max 2 are still the best over-ear headphones you can buy.
“Best” always depends on whether you’ll tolerate the case/charging situation — the Smart Case thing still feels like a design prank.
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Yeah the Smart Case still feels like Apple dared themselves to ship the weirdest bra possible. i love the sound/ANC but if I’m tossing them in a backpack I end up using a third‑party hard case anyway, which kinda says it all.
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That “Smart Case” bra thing still cracks me up — when you say you use a third‑party hard case in your backpack, have you noticed any difference in how reliably they go into low-power mode or does it not matter? I could be wrong here.
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Wait, you mentioned a third‑party hard shell in your backpack — have you noticed any random battery drain days where they don’t seem to hit low‑power mode, or has it been basically identical to the Smart Case for you? honestly not sure on that bit.
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I’ve been using a cheap hard shell in my backpack and I do see random drain sometimes, like 10–20% overnight, which I didn’t get as often with the Smart Case. It feels like the shell doesn’t always press the sensors the same way, so they stay “awake” a little longer.
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Yeah I’ve seen that too — the “sleep” on these feels weirdly dependent on the case actually hitting the right spots, and a generic hard shell seems to miss it sometimes. I ended up just tossing them in the Smart Case when I’m traveling because the random overnight 15% drain was driving me nuts.
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