re: Accidentally washed my AirPods in the washing machine

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What's the update? Did you revive them?

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Coincidentally, after several days of being enclosed in a sealed, airtight container with a shite ton of brand new silica desiccant gel packs, I removed the AirPods for the first time today, and found that the charging case is definitely shot. When plugging the lightning cable in to the charging case, the LED indicator would not illuminate. The AirPods were also unable to reconnect to my iPhone while inside and outside of the case......UNTIL I placed them into a separate functioning charging case. Immediately, the AirPods' battery level (along with that particular charging case's battery level) popped up on my phone's screen. I placed the AirPods into my ears, and BEHOLD, I was greeted by the tone telling me that they've connected to my phone and were ready to jam. I then anxiously went to my music app, and with a short 'fingers crossed' moment in anticipation that I wouldn't hear a bunch of muffled sounds coming through their speakers, I selected a song to play. BOOM! The AirPods started jamming, sounding just as good as they did when they were brand new. It doesn't appear that water affected them one bit! It now looks like I am only going to have to pay $69.00 for a new charging case, instead of $159.00 for a whole new set.