Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro

Well I’m having the same problems man probably the one million users like me don’t want to go through the hole process of doing what I did to write this! But my battery is **** and its getting consumed By safari and I don’t use it. And I don’t have anything open no windows I know everything about iPad and iPhone and this is busldhit

Well,

Good for you!

If you tried everything including things to try that I already posted and nothing has worked for you, then

Send feeback to Apple per the links I supplied on previous pages and contact Apple per the links I posted on previous pages.

not being an expert at all but one thing I did which helped to reduce battery drain was to turn off "Location Services" located under settings/Privacy. This might be of benefit to your situation, or not.

This is from Apple toolbox dated August 2019.

Battery calibration is a myth. At least, it may as well be these days. It’s a relic of recommendations for older, nickel-based batteries. But the battery in your iPhone or iPad uses lithium-ion, and calibrating it is not a good idea. 

Hi all,

I’m having the same issues on both 1st gen and 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9.

I purchased the 1st gen back in October as a Christmas present for my daughter (seller refurbished). Tested it for a few days, updated it, boxed it back up fully charged (turned off). Opened it up Christmas Day, turned it on and it had 7% which I thought was strange. She’s lucky if she gets 4 hours from a full charge. She does watch YouTube etc so don’t expect days of usage but I’d expect more than 4 hours! I’ve hard reset it several times, updated to the beta 13.3.1 which I actually think has made it slightly worse.

I treated myself to a 2nd gen iPad Pro 12.9 (brand new) 2 days ago, like a fool I updated it to iOS 13.3 (it didn’t come with iOS 13) and now I’m having draining issues with my battery. Both mine and an iPad 2 (not iOS 13) was left 100% on charge, after returning home around 5 hours later, the iPad 2 was 99% and the iPad Pro (2nd gen) was at 88%.

Surely that can’t be an issue where an 8 year old iPad 2 is holding charge more efficiently than 2 iPad Pro’s both running iOS 13.

Has anybody managed to get their’s fixed?

Thanks

I’ve posted a couple of times on what I’ve done to minimize battery drain after updates.

It boils down to turning off almost every feature, all background apps and programs, auto refresh, geo locate, screen brightness and Clear Siri data and cache. All done through settings.

I perform a hard reset after each update then once a week now as a hopeful preventative.

Battery now lasting approximately 7 to 8 hrs, remember to close apps after using instead of allowing the page’s to stay open in the background.

I only loose 1% when off over night, 5% in standby after 24 hrs, now. I pad is two years old.

Apple has a built in battery maintenance function that discharge the battery periodically then recharge that seems to have a mind of its own and performs it at random that can mess up a good day if you unplug in mid charge.

I would read all the past posts from the many helpful frustrated IPad users in the same predicament for more ideas to maximize your battery life.

I pad users life after IOS 13, has been extremely frustrating.

iPad Users’ life has been extremely frustrating since the introduction of iOS 11 over 3-years, ago!

Hence why my own 2015 iPad Pro is STILL running iOS 10.3.3 after over 3-years of this frustrating nonsense.

iOS 11 was complete and utter garbage of an iOS and iPadOS 13, to date, has not faired much better since its introduction.

iOS 11 and every iOS/iPadOS iteration therafter, have all been buggy as an active anthill and things still have not improved, as yet, with iPadOS 13.

I have already waited out 2 full iOS iterations, I may end up just waiting it out for iPadOS 14 and hope for another “Festivus Miracle” to manifest itself.

That support page contains support for every category Apple covers.

It is the best page for all phone contact support for Apple.

It is broken down by category if one just scrolls a little down the Webpage, all the Apppe Product and Service U.S. and other regionalphone contact numbers are provided under that category.

Not hard to find, at all.

I have the same device and have the exact same issue on my iPad Pro 9.7” running iOS 13.3. Safari is consuming 96% battery - I used it for reading news and for online shopping on Amazon, etc. deleted most of the apps and still battery drains very quickly.

I don’t know how many times we have to contact Apple about this issue. I’ve contacted them twice, collected and sent diagnostics and no improvement. I don’t believe Apple is hearing us. Very frustrating.

I would, also, advise you to call Apple again about this issue on your own iPad Pro.

Especially if you were given a case number.

Even if you were not given a case number, you should still call and reach out to Apple support, again, in California, about this iPad Pro battery drain issue.

I also have an iPad Pro first generation and I am in Sydney, Australia. The battery was "amazing" before the iOS update, but now the battery only lasts a few hours. Apple's response is that the iPad is 3.5 years old and they are of the opinion that the battery being a consumable item, has lasted a reasonable period of time. The Apple representative indicated the device can be repaired with a battery replacement at a cost. Can I please know what the outcome of this problem is so that I can pursue a satisfactory resolution with Apple. Clearly the iOS update has cause the internal battery deterioration. An Apple diagnostic test showed the battery was about 65% with 971 cycles.