Headphones and earbuds · Apple
Owners keep the AirPods 2 for easy wireless listening and sound they find pleasing, and the trade-off they keep making is a battery that fades with age.
The sound is what owners who like these point to: one calls it the best of any earbud they have used, and another moving to a rival pair found the AirPods 2 slightly cleaner in quality. Too few owners raised sound quality for the site to judge it yet.
Battery life is the clear complaint. Several owners say their pair barely holds a charge after years of use, with one bud lasting under an hour in one account, and this is the reason people give for moving on.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Once the novelty passes, the AirPods 2 settle into being the pair people grab without thinking. Owners who stayed with them like the fit, which some say newer AirPods and Pro models cannot match in their ears, and they like the sound. One owner prefers wireless for time outside even after buying wired EarPods.
What owners adjust to is the charge. As the battery wears down, one owner has made a habit of using a single bud until it dies, then swapping to the other one and repeating. Another describes the relief of no longer worrying about charging or losing them after switching to a cheaper wired pair.
The part that fails is the battery. Owners with older pairs say the buds no longer hold much of a charge, and in one account the right bud lasts about forty five minutes. When it gets that bad, owners either work around it by alternating buds or replace the pair, with a newer AirPods model or wired EarPods.
The long-term accounts here are thin. Only a handful of owners spoke to battery life, and only a few to sound, so this is an early read rather than a settled picture. What is consistent is that battery decline, not sound or fit, is what pushes owners to replace them.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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