Just install 3uTools and you can check every small detail about your battery, including brand, original design capacity, current capacity, cycle count etc.
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iPadOS 17.5 Beta Hints at Battery Capacity and Cycle Count Menu on Upcoming iPads
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Just like every iPhone, every iPad already has this ability/information hidden behind a boolean toggle that conceals it from the user. If they pull this trick again, and they will, then it's the final piece of evidence, as if any more were needed, that Apple has become a nasty company that hates its customers.
My iPad Pro 9.7 (1st generation) awful battery and recently keep dying over night. I charge it before go bed and it is full then I wake up morning it nearly dead like 10%-20% power. At first I thought it might be too close to radiator (heat affect battery) so I move it further away and still happens. Not every single night though. It seem be random. It can be great over 90% battery in morning or awful 10%-20% battery, nothing in between. Very up and down.
You already can get battery stats in some ipads. Stats that you can get: Original maximum capacity, nominal charge capacity, cycle count, and battery capacity %. You need to enable the analytics logs (in settings - privacy and security) and send the latest log to the battery stats shortcut. Instruction here https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-check-your-ipads-battery-health
Try doing a full reset of the iPad...
check their website on how to do it
and if that doesnt work, restore from a backup
Try that out
They should include this functionality on older models, there's no reason not to.
My 13 year-old iPad 2 still has great battery life. Purchased in March 2011, still on original battery!
Would love to see 80% limit rolled out to more devices, including Macs.
You are already able to see your battery health percentage on your iPad, under the analytics page, though it's not exactly the most accessible. But you shouldn't need to go through a rep for this.
There's even a shortcut for this.
What this possibly means is that the next round of iPads may be more repairable, and Apple is going to offer battery replacements similar to what they already do for the iPhone. Hence why Apple is open to making the information more readily accessible because previously, Apple would just replace the entire iPad for you.
I have noticed this as well. I use my iPad a couple of times a week, and have come to expect that I have to charge it first. I wonder if there is a way to stop it from doing any background work when not plugged in.
While this is a great addition in itself, I hope it means that the upcoming design is openable and repairable. We need this.
Sure, just carefully scrape out the dendritic formations with a pentalobe.
Just what I was thinking. Has anyone ever had a battery ”serviced” and what did it entail? I can’t imagine Apple do anything other than replace them.
I have some automations that kick off on a regular basis and set it for power save mode (or regular). When I pick it up to use it I just flick it back to normal battery mode if needed.
I'm sure whatever OS functions that exist that allow that functionality will be deprecated in the new iOS. 😄
There was another battery program about 5 years ago that had similar functionality for the phone and Apple killed that when they came out with their new battery management.
Isn’t this a feature that should have been implemented some 5, 10 years ago?