Severe battery drain continues, iOS 13.2.2, iPad Pro

If you tried the commonly available advice (acknowledging that you’ve not listed the actual mitigation that you’ve attempted), If not tried already, I would suggest that you attempt restoring your iPad from iTunes on your PC/Mac. This will completely reinstall a fresh copy of iPadOS.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201252

An OTA update only replaces changed portions of the OS - so, if corrupted by a previous update, a further OTA-update or system restart is unlikely to resolve an existing system corruption. By contrast, as previously noted, a full restoration from your PC/Mac replaces the entire OS.

Provided that you have completed a backup prior to the restore process, you can simply restore your data after fixing the OS.

I hope this helps.

This battery drain is NOT a common issue on iPads.

We are not seeing thousands of posts about iPads with severe battery drain.

So, clearly you need to do some settings changes with your iPad..

Tap on the link below to my iDevice/iOS battery, performance/optimisation user tips link.

Slow iPad on iOS 9, 10 or 11! - Apple Community

Try all of these tips and leave each tip active together.

DO NOT simply try every tip individually, expecting just one tip to be a performance/battery life “cure all”!

Many of these tips are designed to work together to help

improve overall iOS/iDevice performance.

Good Luck!

If still no joy with the battery drain issue,

The best you can do is alert Apple to this growing issue.

The only way to get Apple to, DIRECTLY, listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

iPad Feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

The more users that post product feedback about any product issue, the faster Apple is made aware and starts

working on a fix/solution for a future software update.

You can submit multiple feedback about any Apple product issues.

Also, you may want to phone contact Apple, directly in Cupertino, California, and calmly talk to an Apple customer service employee about this issue via the link below.

https://www.apple.com/contact/

Good Luck to You!

If still no joy with the battery drain issue after trying all of my user tips.

The best you can do is alert Apple to this growing issue.

The only way to get Apple to, DIRECTLY, listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

iPad Feedback

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

The more users that post product feedback about any product issue, the faster Apple is made aware and starts

working on a fix/solution for a future software update.

You can submit multiple feedback about any Apple product issues.

Also, you may want to phone contact Apple, directly in Cupertino, California, and calmly talk to an Apple customer service employee about this issue via the link below.

https://www.apple.com/contact/

Good Luck to You!

I have the same battery drain going on iPadOS 13.2.3 where power drops continually with no attribution to any activity showing in the battery setting just a steady drop in battery power. I gave checked the battery life using cocoanut battery and it shows having only 108 battery cycles. I have tried many battery saving suggestions with no satisfaction.

It’s really not as bad or onerous as it sounds - and provided you have taken the precaution of taking a backup, at worst doesn’t more than a couple of hours with a fast internet connection.

And no, you can’t downgrade an individual App, such as Safari. You can uninstall it, but if you reload the App from the App Store, it’ll be the latest version.

For what its worth, following stabilisation, iPads that I’ve updated to iPadOS now generally use about 15% of available battery per hour - so a usable continuous battery life of about 6.5 - 7hrs is now seemingly the new “normal”.

Your expanded description suggests that you have indeed completed all the sensible steps to minimise power consumption on your iPad. If your iPad is discharging in just a few hours, then something unusual and unexpected is afoot!

My heavy testing of iPadOS13.x suggests that power consumption for an iPad Pro 10.5, for general usage (such as simply “surfing” - nothing processor intensive) at approximately 30-50% screen brightness, then 12-15% of battery capacity per hour appears to be expected; in practice, this equates to no more than 7hrs continuous usage prior to needing recharge. This is greater power consumption than iOS12.x - which, for equivalent usage, I could possibly squeeze 9hrs.

Assuming that you have a full backup in iCloud - then the full restore process from your PC will (a) wipe and totally re-install iPadOS - and once done, (b) invites you to restore your existing data (and all current settings) from your iCloud backup.

Unless you are very unlucky and have a “bad” backup, all will be restored to as it is now - except that your iPadOS installation will hopefully be as it should be, “clean” and with no corruption.

Just FYI, I seem to be having similar issues. So prompted by the above I decide decide to do a complete restore today. I back up with a Lightning cable to the Music (“iTunes” for us oldtimers) application on my iMac.

I found that the complete erasure and restore process took around 90 minutes, with a bit longer for downloading some apps.

I have about 160 GB on an iPad Pro, which is about 2 years old or so.

The process was routine.

I’ll see if it helps with what seemed like rapid battery drain and balky recharging.

What do you suggest?

What do I do with my iPad? E-mail, various apps, browsers, etc.

When I check the battery info in Settings there's nothing noteworthy about any particular app consuming more battery than before.

This is obviously a new problem, it only cropped up with iOS, was not a problem before.

Thanks.

There is NO app eating up more of the battery than other apps?

Not one or even two?

What is your screen brightness set at?

If the screen brightness is set too high, this is an instant battery drainer for any iPad.

I know iPads have 4 GBs of RAM, but do you have lots and lots of apps just sitting in the iOS background switcher?

Do you have a lot of active website tabs open in a Web browser?

In Settings app , do you have Background App Refresh toggled OFF for any apps that do not need this active?

Could also toggle OFF Background App Refresh for any apps that always/constantly go out to the Internet to refresh its data.

There are a few other things you can do to preserve battery life and improve performance, also.

I second jomeara reply.

I do the same with my iPad Pro 10.5 as I did before the iPadOS update.

Mostly using Safari and watching video on streaming services and youtube. Even browsing the iPad settings. Nothing complicated.

It just obviously consumes battery much faster.

See my queries and advice in my recent posts.

This is NOT a common problem.

iPadOS uses a lot more hardware/software resources, now.

So, you may need to change some settings and iOS behaviours to compensate for this unusual battery drain.

Not everyone with an iPad or iPad Pro is having this issue.

Reports here have been scarce on this severe or unusual battery drain topic.