Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro

Interesting diagnostic measurements. Apple actually “spec” iPad Battery Life to be better than 80% after 1000 Full Cycles.

As for battery usage between charges - measurements of iPadOS13.x show that battery consumption is greater than that of iOS12. In typical usage, I find that battery life for a Pro 10.5, between charges, is now about 7.5 hours - whereas iOS12, for equivalent use, was about 9 hours.

"Your battery is designed to retain up to 80 per cent of its original capacity at 1,000 complete charge cycles." The Apple website says "..up to 80 percent".

It is unreasonable for an iPad Pro to be working perfectly one day to become unusable the next day due to an iOS update as experienced by others.

I would accept a decrease in battery life due to the update in the iOS version and with wear and tear of the internal battery after 3.5 years. But, I do not accept that the upgrade in iOS should be able to literally kill my iPad Pro.

Hi Soart, I am wondering whether our problems are the same. Do you have a first generation iPad Pro? Has an Apple expert performed a diagnostic test on your ipad Pro? If not, have you thought that maybe your iPad Pro battery has been damaged by the upgrade and that no future iOS update will be able to fix the battery life.

Are there other users with specifically the same issue with their iPad Pro (3.5 years old)? That is, having upgraded the iOS on the iPad Pro and having a perfect battery life (approx. 10 hours) deteriorate to a few hours.

I think you are flat-out wrong. After multiple power-cycle resets, and fiddling with turning off all the notifications, etc. I still don't get more than six or seven hours of battery.

On my iPad Air 2, Safari sitting idle (with no active page) sucked 43% of my battery in about 4 hours today.

Something is definitely wrong with either the OS, or Safari/webkit stuff.

Tom

In Setting -> Battery I noticed that Safari was eating up 96% of the battery where as few other apps like Reddit, YouTube, Outlook, etc. were consuming 1% each. I downloaded Chrome browser and battery is lasting longer after I stopped using Safari completely. Prior to that the battery would not even last for an hour which was shocking even though it was charged to 100%.

Check which apps are consuming most battery and trying switching to an alternative app to see if it helps until Apple releases new fixes for iPad OS.

A week ago today I called Apple. I spent more than two hours on the phone with the service rep rebuilding the system from scratch and afterwords discovered no change. He claimed it was the battery but the battery had already been checked by an Apple service dealer. He set me up an appointment to take it in and have the battery changed. I took it in they checked it again and decided it would do no good to change the battery. I sold it and now I have something different.

Try using Mozilla Firefox, or Firefox Privacy Browser, instead!

Chrome is made by Google and Google has enough of my personal data, if any of us here are like me, I am tired of Google mining my every move on the Web.

I use Google Drive and Photos ( cheap data storage plan I couldn't pass up ), but other than those, my iPad is Google free.

I do not even use them for search any longer, for many years!

I use mostly DuckDuckGo search and, occasionally, Yahoo or Bing.

Sounds like there may be two discussions happening here. Sounds like some people are having a problem with excessive battery consumption while using certain apps (typically Safari), while others (such as me) are having a problem with battery depletion while not using the device at all. In my case my battery drains about the same rate (~10%/hr) whether I’m using it or not (e.g. Smart Cover closed, asleep, and undisturbed in my bag). I can partially mitigate that by turning off Wi-Fi, BT, and cellular data in Settings, but that’s a PITA and I definitely didn’t have to do that prior to IPadOS 13.

It’s super frustrating to pull my iPad Pro out of my bag, having not used it since taking it off the charger, to find it warm to the touch and the battery nearly gone. “Battery” in Settings shows no app usage since coming off the charger fully charged, but the graph shows a constant rate of depletion the whole time.

At least in my situation, I have both “rapid” depletion while using my iPad (think about 1% every 1 to 2 minutes), and battery depletion when it isn’t being used (rate similar to yours of roughly 10% per hour).

So, fun fact. I had replaced the battery on my ipad mini 4 in September. Prior to replacement, the battery would go from 100% to dead within 6-7 hours with no heavy use and all extra stuff turned off. I use my ipad for work so this was unacceptable. After replacement, I could go a whole day and still have battery left at the end of the day. IMMEDIATELY after updating to iOS 13 (December), my battery went back to dying in less than half a day again. I tried all the stuff suggested and nothing worked.

So frustrating! I realized my new battery comes with a 1 year warranty, so had it replaced with a new battery. Voila! I have only had the ipad back for two days, but so far it is performing as it did pre-iOS 13 update. I have changed NOTHING, just the battery. I can't say this proves anything, and I cannot understand how an iOS update could kill a new battery, but such are the facts so far.

My last computer is an ‘09 Macbook 13 in. I got this iPad Pro instead of a computer in Nov 2018. Don’t have a lot of dough. I upgraded to 13.3 about 1month ago. I have maybe 3 apps. Upgraded to 13.3 Just this morning - for the last 20 minutes, I’ve been watching my battery drain from 88% to 26%...wait now 24%...now 23%, now 21%, now 18%, now 15%, now 11%. Crazy!

Never happened like this before the update...disgusting. All of these people experiencing the same problems yet they’ll tell you it’s something other than the fault of anything they’ve done.

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I’m having the same issue. I could close my cover and leave my I pad for weeks with little battery drain. I downloaded the update and now my battery only last two days with the cover shut and no apps opened.

I have the exact same problem. It started with iPadOS 13.3 update. Mine is an iPad pro 2018 model, battery drains overnight in sleep mode.

Hard resets- done

Background app refresh- off

Location and Siri- off

Airplane mode- on

Still draining!

Interesting fact:

Measured with iMazing, it draws constantly about 650mA current while in sleep mode.

Drains 0mA while on charge, 100%

Drains 0mA while turned off

My old iPad pro (2015) drains about 50mA in sleep mode.

Tried every suggestion mentioned above but to no avail. Nothing. It drains.