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iPad Pro iPad Pro 10.5 battery draining substantially when not used

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MrMister111

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I’m finding my iPad Pro is draining battery substantially when not used. If I look in battery it has maybe 1-2 items, and listed background activity, yet I have background activity switched off in settings.

I charged to 37% on Fri, in 48 hrs the iPad without being touched or used, just left in standby, was completely flat.

I’ve I charged and looked straight in battery settings and showed just News with background activity, no screen on time etc, yet it was flat - how?

It’s all up to date iOS 13.3.1. What can I do or check? Worth resetting it and starting it as a new iPad, rather not as got a load of videos etc on, its a 256Gb version

Thanks
 
That's not normal. My 10.5" iPad Pro will maintain its charge for several days while on standby. And after charging to 100% it will only drain off around 5 to 10% when using it intermittently. I would have Apple check it out after their stores get back to normal operation.
 
chscag said:
That's not normal. My 10.5" iPad Pro will maintain its charge for several days while on standby. And after charging to 100% it will only drain off around 5 to 10% when using it intermittently. I would have Apple check it out after their stores get back to normal operation.
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Yeh didn’t used to be like this, nothing has changed though. This was a replacement on AC+ so only about 6 months old as well.

I did restore from an iPad backup and I able some say to setup as new for old cache files or something, but it seems to be getting worse.

I can setup as new but just wondered if anything else I could try first. I’ve switched off background activity as doing really need that on my iPad, but not sure what else. Also as above battery in settings doesn’t tell me anything, or lies and says 100% background for news!?!
 
AutomaticApple said:
Maybe your battery is defective?
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Maybe, out of warranty so would cost £99 for a battery replacement.

Normally Apple ask to reset to factory and test then to see if a rogue app.

Not sure if they can remote test, or look at logs, sure they did for an old iPhone once. I was at home and they asked me to enable or allow something to get access
 
I’m having a similar issue also, coconut battery is showing 88% life, I’ve went through all settings, I have nothing running rogue in the background. I‘ve done a reset, it was a little better at first, but its going back to Severe drain. The one thing it did after the reset, was it didn’t drain every day, it seems like every other day. I soft reset the iPad daily and make sure all apps are killed if not in use to no prevail. I guess next logical step would be a battery replacement.
 
hotr32 said:
I’m having a similar issue also, coconut battery is showing 88% life, I’ve went through all settings, I have nothing running rogue in the background. I‘ve done a reset, it was a little better at first, but its going back to Severe drain. The one thing it did after the reset, was it didn’t drain every day, it seems like every other day. I soft reset the iPad daily and make sure all apps are killed if not in use to no prevail. I guess next logical step would be a battery replacement.
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I’ll check on coconut tonight and see. I’m presuming that this is a refurb they gave me so should have been a new battery? Hope old is your iPad?

I wouldn’t mind it not lasting as long, that’s expected with an ageing battery, but it’s the drain when not using. Lots of times now I’m picking out up after a few days and it’s completely flat. Had, and have, numerous iPads and they doing do this. A mini we have, haven’t used for weeks. Left on standby still had 70-80% ish left.

Disappointed that one you did a full reset was the same. Was that with no apps on etc? Just plain out of box?

I don’t really want to pay for a new battery and out not be any different either though.
 
I did buy my iPad used, it has a build date of August 2018, I obviously purchased it reset. I hooked it to coconut to see the battery health. I did a restore from my iPad Mini 5, the first couple of days had very bad battery drain. I searched this forum to see if anyone had the same issue, someone replied maybe a lot of photos and apps were still loading from the cloud, give it a couple of days to see.
i went a week, after the first 2 days it got a little better. After about 2 weeks of back and forth drain, i decided to reset it and start again. This time it seemed better, no drain after the restore. Everything has been great, fast forward to last week, I went to bed with 72% battery, after 7 hours it had 36%, checked battery settings, everything seemed normal. Next day, all usage seemed normal without terrible drain, I watched some Netflix, saw it drained a little more than normal, but no worries. Now it seems like battery drain is all over the place, the worst is overnight standby drain, it can drain from 15% - 30%, I am completely confused as why it drains so fast anymore.
 
My 10.5 had been doing great with only 1% drain or so every night but for a while now it has gone up to almost 10% - not as severe as yours but still a substantial increase. I saw some threads discussing Siri as being a culprit for some users so I disabled it - didn't make much difference. I then went in and disabled Learn from App for every app under Siri and Search and now I'm back to about 1% drain overnight. Cause & effect - can't say for sure but there is a difference now.
 
I’ll have a look at that thanks, don’t really use Siri on iPad, and then learn from app didn’t even know that seeing existed.

I’ve also now set a shortcut automation to go into airplane mode when DND activates, basically late night, it’s then simple to come out of airplane when need.

This then stops everything syncing, background stuff I believe, although a lot of photos syncing, backups etc only happens when plugged into mains so not losing out there either.
 
MrMister111 said:
I’ll have a look at that thanks, don’t really use Siri on iPad, and then learn from app didn’t even know that seeing existed.

I’ve also now set a shortcut automation to go into airplane mode when DND activates, basically late night, it’s then simple to come out of airplane when need.

This then stops everything syncing, background stuff I believe, although a lot of photos syncing, backups etc only happens when plugged into mains so not losing out there either.
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I never used Siri either so I was fine with disabling it. This did seem to make a difference for my iPad but as they say, YMMV. Good luck and do report back if you find this or anything else that helps.
 
I also read about Siri’s battery drain, I disabled that, it seemed better for the next few days, but then back to the crazy battery drain.
 
hotr32 said:
I also read about Siri’s battery drain, I disabled that, it seemed better for the next few days, but then back to the crazy battery drain.
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It’s so strange then when something like this works and then doesn’t though. It has to be something in the iOS system doing it, but then why is it not a more wide ranging problem if so.

If I knew a new battery would fix it I would pay as like the 10.5 format and have a ASK and extra cover so prefer to keep that. Suppose there is the 10.5” Air, but not sure if this has same problems as well.
 
I have a 11 inch IPP and have noticed a sharp decrease in battery over the last week - including the OP’s issue.

I am running 13.3.1 and have AppleCare, so may have to call them if it doesn’t improve with 13.4 which releases next week ... 🧐
 
Well today, it was in Airplane mode after my shortcut mode overnight, I checked this morn and was 79% and checked now and it was 79% until screen lit up and then went to 78%. That’s about 8hrs in standby with airplane on.

If happening on above IPP 11” as well then must be an iOS issue. Let’s hope 13.4 is better. I’ll see how goes over next few days.
 
hotr32 said:
I also read about Siri’s battery drain, I disabled that, it seemed better for the next few days, but then back to the crazy battery drain.
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I can say that turning off Learn from App helped my battery drain. Only thing I have done and now idle time drain has dropped way off.
 
Well after 36 hours I lost 1% from 100% to 99% so very happy with that. This is when it’s in airplane mode which now happens every night when goes into DND mode.

Simple shortcut to make it, and simple to come out of with control centre.

I surmise even though I’ve switched off background refresh, something is still doing something in background maybe.

It could be still the battery going south I suppose, but it’s reporting now 100% and not dropping.

I think I may, if I remember, every time switch into airplane mode as there’s nothing really on my iPad that I need for notifications etc, I have my iPhone for that.

Can anyone else who having this problem please try and see it get same results?
 
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