Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro

As mentioned, my Ipad Pro had an empty battery, after 12 hrs or so... Even with the device completely shut off...

I did 2 hard reboots, and it seems to be a lot better. Battery life is back to usual!!!

If these hard reboots are better after an update: Why don't they program the updates to do it on their own?

Add me to the list of users having this problem. I have an iPad Pro 10.5”, iOS 13.2.3, and have seen my battery life plummet since upgrading to iOS 13.X. Today, for example, I have had Safari on screen for just 17 minutes according to the battery tool, yet starting from a full charge I’m already down to 86% on the charge. Best case the battery is lasting 3-4 hours of even light duty use — mostly ebooks, web browsing, and Apple News.

I am having the same problem after the update. My battery life is horrible. I have background refresh totally shut off, screen brightness turned down and e everything else they tell you to do and nothing helps. I have an iPad Pro with the home button..

Have either of you tried a couple hard reset of your iPad by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons simultaneously until your iPad goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons?

iPadOS 13.3 is anticipated to be released within the next three days. Hopefully, your battery drain issue will be addressed - but I can say with certainty that you’ll be able to hide both the Purple Unicorn and his/her siblings!

Hello, I had to perform multiple hard reboots plus turn off all app refresh, reset screen brightness, and turn off geo locate to revive the battery’s life.

Geo locate is a big power draw.

I now can get through most of a normal day with out a recharge.

Yes, Apple definitely is dropping the ball with this IOS version and doesn’t seem to care about its customer’s being forced to to choose between a device that can run for hours by only performing minimal tasks or a fully functional multi tasking device that needs a power cord to run at its full potential.

Really can't state that as Apple has been putting out iOS updates pretty often and pretty frequently to fix issues.

It may just take time for Apple to get through all of iPadOS 13 issues.

It would appear that many of the users that signed up for the iPadOS Beta many months, ago, were not regularly reporting bugs and sending data feedback back to Apple to fix these issues before the release date.

That is why Apple is changing its testing methodology now for the next iPadOS 14 release next year.

I think the user beta testing phase of iPadOS 13 failed Apple because many usres downloaded and ran the iPadOS beta just to post videos to tell the world they were/are the first users to run the new iPadOS and really were not helping Apple by submitting regular feedback about all of its bugs/problems/issues.

IPadOS public Beta testers failed Apple on this version of iOS and Apple has been trying to play catch up with all of iPadOS bugs and issues.

So, fixes are coming much more frequently, now, because of this.

Well, thank you for that. At least that makes some sense. After all I went through I had to buy a new iPad Pro and am still having numerous issues with it, all except for the battery issue.

I will report them to Apple Support.

I’ve been fighting this for a couple months. My battery is gone in about 3 hours. IPAD OS 13.3 (just updated today) and it is still draining just as fast. I’m not usually one to join these discussions—unless someone says they don’t see this complaint from anyone else.

A couple of hard resets in and I am cautiously optimistic. Today I have 2 hours of use and still at 86%. No settings changes. Will report back again in a few days.

note that I had to do the reset where you hold down home and sleep buttons for a long time, until the Apple logo reappears. Just a regular shut off and restart did not help.

While “asleep” my iPad loses almost 10% battery life per hour, and reviewing “Battery” in Settings shows no apps and 0 minutes of screen on time during each of those hours. The battery charge graph shows a continuous and constant slope down. I have done a “hard reset” (home button + sleep/wake button) so many times I’ve lost count.

I have put my iPad in my bag in the morning at 100%, and take it out later and it’s warm to the touch and the battery is down by about 10% for each hour it was asleep. Prior to iPadOS 13 it would be down by a few percent if at all.

I initially seemed to have a good result turning background app refresh completely off (universally, for all apps) but even with that the problem came back. Still have the problem if I “close“ all apps (swipe them off in the app switcher).

There is absolutely a background power consumption problem in iPadOS 13 for the 10.5” iPad Pro, if not other models too. In fact, I happened to get an out of warranty replacement 10.5” iPad Pro (for another reason) right after upgrading to iPadOS 13 and both units exhibited the problem.

I have shut down everything I could possibly live without, even Siri which I use a lot, all notifications, location tracking, and push for mail. I had a tech look at it (twice) and turn off anything I missed. Sorry, but If I could have found anything else I would have done it. Now i just keep it plugged in all the time and when I take it anywhere I take an external battery to charge it. I had the tech check the battery too. Battery is at 90% efficiency. It’s an 9.7” iPad Pro two year old this month. Worked perfectly until aprox. two months ago.

As a graphic artist i use it more than i do my laptop, as a sketch pad, as a photo editor, finance, note taking and just about everything. My heartstrings are tied to it. Definitely a problem now.