I’ve only had these for like a year now, and the battery life on them was never really that good. And it has only been getting worse with time. Also, you would think that transparency mode could save batteyr-life but really transparency mode seems to make the battery life even worse than with noise cancellation. I would rather just turn off both transparency mode and noise cancellation without the sound being 10x worse. Where the heck are the controls for AirPod settings? Why isn’t there a section in the settings app for AirPod settings? Why isn’t there a Low Power Mode for AirPods? These are all things that either other Bluetooth wireless headphones have, or Apple has implemented on its’ other devices. Does Apple think they can just totally slack on competitive development for AirPods because they usually sound great; if now the best compared to other Bluetooth pod types? Because I will switch to a better brand soon with more features, better battery, better settings app, etc. -like Bose. I have a pair of Bose headphones ($400) that I’ve had for about 3 years now and although I’ve had to replace the ear pads, they still work and have good battery life. This is a nearly $250 piece of equipment and is supposed to be a “Pro” product. Yet they feel very very amateur to me and not Pro. And then they have the gall to make a pair of “AirPods Max” which are like $500 more than the "Pro" Apple people must be hard of hearing, or have a really bad opinion of what Pro/professional means. and like they would ever even come close to comparing to the long-developed and tested Bose Quiet Comfort, for example, which are better than AirPods in every way and is much more of a "Pro" bluetooth headset than the Max or the Pros ever were. they need to focus more on useful, better components rather than on the other components that don’t matter as much like the NFC setup component which is literally only useful one or two times. I'm just saying that the Apple engineers either need to fix their naming scheme and, more importantly, prices for these products if they aren't what they say they are and/or diminish after a year of low/moderate use.