iPad Pro 10.5 battery

Whilst not ruling-out a potential issue with the battery, your first step in diagnosing a potential problem would be to recalibrate the battery indicator.

To do, continue to use your iPad, without further charging, until the iPad eventually switches itself off completely, (due to exhaustion of the battery). At this point, connect to your external power brick and allow the iPad to fully recharge.

After this complete cycle has completed, use the iPad as normal.

For the iPad Pro 10.5, you should generally see about 10% battery depletion per hour (higher in bright lighting) - with a usable battery life of about 9hrs continuous use - or about 10% depletion per day if the iPad is just left idling unused throughout the day.

You may need to repeat this a couple of times to be sure that behaviour is not as it should be. If you remain concerned, take it along to the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store for testing. Alternatively, make contact with the Apple Support team using the Contact Support link at top-right of this page; they can carry out some remote tests.

Hope you find this to be of some help.

Well, 2% in 2 hours would roughly equate to the expected 10% per day. Don’t forget, your iPad does normal housekeeping in the background (such as checking message/email) when apparently sleeping. Battery anxiety promotes your desire to frequently wake-up your iPad to check on battery consumption; this will only add to battery depletion 🙂.

Just to be sure, recalibrate your battery indicator as advised - then just use it normally for a day or two. Just leave-alone and resist the urge to frequently check the battery status.

Another tip - that might help reduce your evident battery anxiety - is to switch off the battery percentage indicator (leaving only the graphical battery icon). You’ll be surprised how much longer your perception of battery life between charges might improve:

Settings > Battery > Battery Percentage - set to off

Pleased to hear that your battery usage is more akin that normally expected than you had first thought.

I’ve not seen a definitive answer to your final question - but, on the basis of my own experience with several examples of an iPad Pro 10.5 WiFi & Cellular, an average of 10% per day when left alone (with background housekeeping activities) would be a reasonable expectation. Your experience may differ a little as your mixture of Apps and associated backround activity may be a little lighter or heavier on the processor/battery.

For example, my main iPad (from which I pen this response) has 9 monitored email accounts (business and personal) of which three receive “push” email and the other six are configured to “fetch” new mail every 15 minutes. Reducing the number of monitored mailboxes, or increasing the time interval between “fetches”, would reduce the amount of background activity (and associated battery consumption). The difference woudn’t be huge, but would be measurable under controlled test conditions.

One other battery behaviour that you might like to know about with the iPad Pro models...

If you habitually leave your iPad connected to external power, it will sometimes switch to a charging mode whereby the battery doesn’t reach 100% - but something less. This charging strategy is designed protect the battery and extend its overall lifespan (i.e., increase the overall number of full charge/discharge cycles before a replacement is required). This behaviour is sometimes misinterpreted as a fault; if this behaviour is seen, reverting to a more “normal” charging routine will restore 100% charging.