iPad Pro M5 iPad Pro Battery [MERGED]

[sparksd]

How much battery does the magic keyboard take?

With the M1, M4 & M5 Pro iPads, I've found it to be imperceptible.

 

[jonnyb098]

I’ve been using my iPad Pro M4 11” for a couple of weeks now. I was really hoping that the battery life would be better than with the M4, but it’s not.

The battery drops just as fast as my M4 while surfing with Safari, using UBlock Origin Lite, scrolling Facebook, and using the built-in Message app. I’ve been doing a slow mix of the above for about 1hr, and the battery has dropped from 95% to 86%. On my iPhone 17 Pro, by contrast, this would have only dropped about 6%.

Anyway, I think the fancy OLED screen just draws a lot of power. I’m in a dark room and the screen is at 25% brightness. This doesn’t bode well at all for daytime usage with the screen at my typical 40% brightness.

The chassis isn’t getting warm at all, but I’m surprised that the new CPU isn’t giving similar battery/efficiency improvements over my M4, similar to the much better battery life I’m getting on my iPhone 17 Pro, compared to my 16 Pro that wasn’t great.

Edited to add: I am seeing the advertised faster charging speeds, even when using lower wattage chargers.
2nd edit: I’m going to turn off Multitasking and switch back to Full Screen apps to see if the battery life and screen on times improve.

Multitasking in windowed mode KILLS the battery. I never got more than 6 hours on my M2 iPad Pro. Now with iOS 26 with most apps full screen and light use of windowed apps/ slide over I get 7-8 on my year old M4 pro. They gotta figure out the battery on these now that they’re pushing windowed mode so much.

I do notice just browsing Apple Music and the podcasts app both kill the battery very fast. Like it’ll drop a percent every couple minutes. At that rate that’s not even 4 hours of battery life. YIKES.

 

[Wizec]

Reporting back that I’m still disappointed in the M5 battery life, even in Full Screen Apps mode.

I really wish Apple would give us the same Adaptive Battery setting that the iPhones have at the very least.

 

[teh_hunterer]

Battery life is great. Losing 13% per hour playing Red Dead Redemption at 50% brightness. That's something like 7 and a half hours of gaming, which is fantastic. More than you'd get from the Switch 2!