My iPad has suddenly battery issues?

[Lolalola2]

I have an iPad Air 4. Never had problems with it. Battery was always amazing and I use it A LOT. I had automatic updates turned off. Hadn't updated it for quite a while. Recently I updated to iOS 18.3 overnight and battery has instantly been terrible. I noticed it when my IPad run out of battery the next day around lunch time. Never happened to me before. Always lasted me through out the whole day.

Its been like this for weeks now. No signs of improving. Turned off background app refresh, didn't help. My battery health is 85 %. So not great but also not terrible.

Anyone else having that problem? Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Reverend Benny]

I have an iPad Air 4. Never had problems with it. Battery was always amazing and I use it A LOT. I had automatic updates turned off. Hadn't updated it for quite a while. Recently I updated to iOS 18.3 overnight and battery has instantly been terrible. I noticed it when my IPad run out of battery the next day around lunch time. Never happened to me before. Always lasted me through out the whole day.

Its been like this for weeks now. No signs of improving. Turned off background app refresh, didn't help. My battery health is 85 %. So not great but also not terrible.

Anyone else having that problem? Does anyone know how to fix this?

Since its hard to know what components that are updated and also device drivers i'd try and check with components or services that the iPad is utilizing.
Lets say you have it connected to a WiFi network and there's components there that constantly "talks" to the ipad via an app or similar it might be a good idea to try and move the iPad to an isolated network like a guest network.

Samt goes for BT, might be periperals that isn't working at is should or incompatibilities due to updates.
So if you have BT devices connected, try and disconnect the.

If you are using 2.4 ghz network try and use 5ghz and vice versa, also check it the router has updates.

CHeck in settings what apps that are allowed to talk to the "local network" as well. Adjust settings.
Another option is to use the phone as a Wifi hotspot for a day so see if that changes things.

Could be anything really but the above are a few things to check along the way as you troubleshoot.

 

[JohnLuke]

Beyond the battery, how do you consider the performance of the iPad air 4 with iPados 18? I have the same model as you and I still use iPados 17.7.2, I'm afraid that updating it will be slow

 

[Reverend Benny]

Beyond the battery, how do you consider the performance of the iPad air 4 with iPados 18? I have the same model as you and I still use iPados 17.7.2, I'm afraid that updating it will be slow

The iPad Air 3 runs good with iOS 18 so the four should definitely be running it fine.
Don't have the air4 but the pro m1 (16gb ram version) and that's great on it too. But it's not comparable to the Air4 in terms of memory.

 

[BriceApp]

I have an iPad Air 4. Never had problems with it. Battery was always amazing and I use it A LOT. I had automatic updates turned off. Hadn't updated it for quite a while. Recently I updated to iOS 18.3 overnight and battery has instantly been terrible. I noticed it when my IPad run out of battery the next day around lunch time. Never happened to me before. Always lasted me through out the whole day.

Its been like this for weeks now. No signs of improving. Turned off background app refresh, didn't help. My battery health is 85 %. So not great but also not terrible.

Anyone else having that problem? Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have the same iPad Air 4 and lower 80’s battery health and 18.3.1 has been rough on battery life for mine as well. I am hoping 18.4 improves it.