Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro

I have the same problem with my IPad Pro, which has a home button. The power continuously drains while the the cover is closed, which used to turn off the unit and not drain the battery. Now it drains constantly when not in use. Only way to prevent it is to do a hard shut off. Have tried multiple resets, does not help. Problem began when I upgraded to IPadOS 13, still occurs with upgrade to IPadOS 13.1.3.

You are incorrect

The cover sleep or sleep button use, just puts the screen, asleep.

If you have any app proceses still going on an iPad or any background app proceses going, these are all are still going to work when you put your iPad to sleep.

Sleep mode is just a display sleep.

It is ALWAYS been this way!

So, in Settings app, under Battery, you need to check which apps are eating up your battery and go into Settings, General, Background App Refresh and toggle OFF any apps you do not want to still have running as a background process.

Most apps that usually work in the background are any apps that get their data from the Web which constantly gets updated in the background when NOT using the app.

No one here is seeing large numbers of users complaining about a serious battery drain issue.

Certainly NOT seeing any large numbers of users here in these iPad communities.

Millions of users have updated to iPadOS.

Not even seeing 1% of users complaining about this here.

Have YOU tried a simple hard reset of your iPad?

Really? Give it a day. Every person I have spoken to who upgraded to 13.1.3 has increased percent of battery drain. Everyone. I have an X and used to end a typical day with >30% battery. Now it has been dead the last two days by the end of the day. I haven’t changed my habits at all. Maybe read some outside threads.

I am having same problem with iPhone. My battery is draining several times a day. I am trying the hard reset to see if that will work. I have already turned off Background Refresh for everything

My iPad mini (with a brand new battery) used to last all day. I now make it to noon until it hits the red zone. I use my iPad for work and this stinks! The new battery fixed my problem and now I’m back to having to carry around an extra battery. Grrrr.

Agree.

I have tried everything as well. Happened with all 3 updates of iOS 13.1 on my iPad Pro. When plugged in to the charger it would show battery at 100% but shut down within seconds and display the empty battery icon if I unplugged it. Tried everything I could find on the internet to fix it; hard restart several times, airplane mode, removed unused apps, kept it plugged in for days, checked the battery usage of every app, etc. It also seems that WiFi cuts out occasionally for a few seconds as well.

Today, after several days of only being able to use it while plugged in after each update and with multiple hard starts, it finally seems to stay on. Not sure why, and not sure it will continue. It appears, though, to be using battery much faster than normal. 10% in the last hour.

This is all a significant change since iOS 13. Something is definitely not right with this update. Thankfully mine is only battery drain. There have actually been news stories on the issues.

Hello, yes thank you. I have I’ve completed four hard resets.

My devices battery function has improved.

Im still experiencing an issue with one app that I use exclusively for flying.

Ive contacted the app developers for information and troubleshooting.

I will now follow any IOS update installation with a hard reset going forward.

I find it unfortunate and poor customer service from Apple that does not include an installation advisory to complete a hard reset after installation of IOS updates.

My experience with battery drain still continues after 13.2.2 update AND multiple hard resets following the update.

It is really starting to frustrate me when I only have 1 app open (safari) and my iPad only lasts for 90 minutes when it used to last 8+ hours prior to iOS 13.

So, after weeks of issues with updates and 3 days after my last comments, it completely died. Only the low battery icon would show. Would not hard start, no Apple icon. Nothing. An amazing coincidence, there was a complete back up that very morning. Took it to the Apple store, after they had sent me to Best Buy for some odd reason, they ran it through their testing mod and it was over. Had to buy a new one.

I apologize Apple, but I can’t help but think after 3 years of perfect performance, it had to be related to the update issues.

If you own a computer with iTunes, you could try backing up your iPad to iTunes.

Then do a complete erase all contents and settings of your iPad in Settings > General > Reset and then do a restore of your iPad's data from the iTunes backup.

That is all I got and this would really be a last idea/resort, as I have no more ideas to offer, after this.