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Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro

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I am experiencing severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro. In Settings>Battery, Safari is shown to be the biggest drain by far (BY FAR!). Have been going from 100% after unplugging charger to less than 50% in two hours of morning use (between 7:00 and 9:00am). At the rate of drain, will have zero left before noon. I use Safari to read articles/morning news...not watching battery consuming videos (but even if I were, this performance would be atrocious and unacceptable). Have performed all the “fixes” I found listed online thus far: install the latest iOS with its “battery fix,” wait (did so for days!) for app updates to “catch up,” lower screen brightness, turn off background app refresh, close apps (and rebooted), minimize open tabs in Safari (usually only have two open at any one time, but also erased history/data and rebooted), etc. Nothing helps. There is a serious problem and it doesn’t appear to be a setting. Thank you for any suggestions.

iPad Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Oct 22, 2019 8:33 AM

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jimfromfairfax

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Posted on Oct 23, 2019 10:23 AM

Perhaps I am incorrect, however, before updating to to IPadOS 13, I never experienced battery drain when I closed the cover. I could leave it for days and not experience power loss. Now I lose 50% overnight when there is no activity.

I am convinced something has changed, and judging by the large number of other people complaining about the same thing, I think I am correct.

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soart Author

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Jul 7, 2020 7:55 AM in response to Marion_PB

If the cause is a runaway background process as someone else suggested, can’t Apple test for that? I’m not a software engineer, but that seems like a pretty essential and fundamental test.

ratul144

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Jul 7, 2020 8:04 AM in response to soart

Agreed. It is also Not impossible for a rogue process to actually physically damage parts of the charging-discharging mechanism.

Rockulus

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Jul 14, 2020 12:56 PM in response to soart

I’m watching my battery level drop as I write this. No response from Apple. I’m lucky to get an hour on a full charge.

Jul 14, 2020 1:16 PM in response to Rockulus

This may be futile, but I’m starting to pm some of the tech authors to try to bring more attention to this issue. It couldn’t hurt. I’m fed up with Apple.

realtwang

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Aug 16, 2020 11:27 AM in response to victor99

My battery life has been better with the Latest update as of today 13.6.1. I hace the 2017 iPad Pro 12.9

Aug 16, 2020 11:42 AM in response to realtwang

My experience has been the opposite. My iPad Pro’s battery (2016 9.7”) has only continued to get worse even with the latest iOS updates. I have watch it drop 15% - 20% in less than 5 minutes.

ratul144

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Aug 16, 2020 12:07 PM in response to Brandonleake

Yup. Even after 13.6.1, mine (2018 pro 12.9) loses 10-12% every hour while in sleep mode. Can barely use it properly.

victor99

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Aug 16, 2020 3:27 PM in response to soart

The device itself cooled off to room temperature right away. As of this writing it's used about 2% of the battery since my last post, while playing a podcast on battery.

victor99

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Aug 17, 2020 6:48 AM in response to victor99

I had the iPad on playing a podcast all night and it used 13% of the battery. That's a huge improvement after turning off background updates and using a podcast instead of streaming.

CaneZMD

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Sep 20, 2020 6:05 AM in response to soart

Same issue. Started with iOS 13, continues with iOS 14. iPad Pro 10.5. Charge to 100, close lid, within 3 days it’s dead without being used at all.

victor99

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Sep 20, 2020 4:50 PM in response to Rockulus

Battery going dead even while iPad is off doesn't indicate a problem with the OS. It indicate s a hardware problem. Possibly your hardware issue started coincidentally when you upgraded the OS.

Rockulus

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Sep 20, 2020 5:45 PM in response to victor99

that would be the coincidence for the ages. I'm not alone in seeing battery drain while the device is off. This is a commonly reported issue in these forums.

Oct 28, 2020 9:11 PM in response to soart

I know how you feel my iPad drained from 100%-25% in 30 minutes and I’m wondering what’s going on

soart Author

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Oct 31, 2020 11:51 AM in response to ratul144

I’ve been running 14.1 for awhile. No change in reliability or battery life.

Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro