Severe battery drain continues, iOS 13.2.2, iPad Pro

Looking at 10 day average

Facebook 18%

LingQ 16% (a language learning app)

Safari 16%

Everything else is less than 10%

The top 3 are ones I use the most.

I will turn off Background App Refresh for the first two, don’t see a control for Safari.

Brightness is about 55%

For any apps installed onto your iPad and do not need Background App Refersh, toggle this OFF.

If you have lots a Website tabs open, even if not viewing them, the Website data is still being constantly refreshed in the browser.

If you have 50 or even more apps in the background app switcher, I would pare the number of apps way down!

Another thing that saves battery life and improves the performance of iOS is to toggle ON Reduced Motion in the Settings app under General.

This both turns off and minimises most of the iPadOS motion graphics “eye candy” which can eat up both CPU and RAK cycles and isn't really necessary to use iPadOS.

iPadOS will run better and faster with all of the motion graphics toggled OFF.

First, thank you for your advice. Really appreciated.

Second. This might be Not a common problem, but the obvious thing is that my iPad began draining battery much faster with the SAME settings it had before the iPadOS 13.2.2, and already with iPadOS.

I always used the best settings for longer battery life. No background update for example.

And still I noticed Obvious battery drain after this exact update.

And while you decided this is not a common problem, there are 77 more people with the same question just in this thread, and more in the internet if you google. Even articles on that.

So you just can hardly deny the issue exists.

Agreed, this is Apple's issue.

People are having multiples issues with iOS 13.

Apple is modifying its internal processes for iOS 14 troubleshooting and approval, which is their way of acknowledging that iOS 13 did not roll out well.

If this issue was a widespread as you claim, then these iPad/iPhone support communities would be inundated with similar postings.

This isn't even close to happening!

And some of those 77 people are repeat reply Posters, so that number maybe even less than you counted.

This is not a common and widespread issue.

This iPad battery drain issue is NOT being widely reported by any or all of the major tech report guys on YouTube and this is not being reported in any of the major tech or Apple Web media sites/ blogs/vlogs.

Just because this maybe happening to a minority group of iPad users doesn’t mean tbis is happening to every iPad and iPad user/owner on the entire globe!

I've actually done most of these already.

Reduced Motion on (my preferred setting for several years), all that zooming is annoying.

Only have a small number of apps in background app switcher (way less than 50 for sure).

I'll close more of my Safari tabs, although don't have a huge number open.

Thanks.

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That is all I got!

My 4-year old, 12.9 inch screen iPad Pro is running fine with the current iPadOS.

No battery issues, but minor app crashes, now and again, but some of my most used apps still need an iPadOS update.

My third party mail client needs another iPadOS update. That crashes about once or twice a day.

So I did submit to iPad Feedback, linked above.

Here is my message if you are looking for a model.

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I am running iOS 13.2.3 on my iPad Pro.

Since installation the battery has been draining very rapidly, at a rate of about 15% per hour.

A battery charge lasted much longer under previous iOS versions.

I have reinstalled the operating system and restored the contents, and have adjusted various settings, to no avail.

I hope that a fix for this issue, which other users are reporting on Apple's iPad forum, is forthcoming because it is seriously impacting my use of this device in a negative way.

Thanks.

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If you are suffering continuous unexplained battery drain subsequent to an OTA update - and standard restart/reset procedures are unsuccessful in correcting the problem - you should (a) ensure you have a current iCloud or iTunes backup of your device, then (b) conduct a full system restore using iTunes from your PC or Mac.

This will perform a total reset and reinstallation of the most up-to-date (or optionally, the last “signed”) version of iOS/iPadOS - then fully restore your data from the backup.

This should resolve any issues created by the previous attempted update.

I did precisely what you suggested. I still see a slow steady draining of the battery during the night and I am not using the ipad at the time. There has to be a background process running that is draining the battery and none show accountable in the battery setting. Just an every decreasing battery level.

Hello, since installing the iOS 13.3 update a few days ago the battery drain issue has been resolved, and battery usage has reverted to what it was prior to installing the various previous iterations of iOS 13. This has been stable since moving to 13.3.

So installing iOS 13.3 may help for you.

Thanks.

John

after updating to 13.3 my iPad 6th got a charging issue , i can't use my ipad while its plugged in, its keep draining the battery while using it ( i just play PUBG, and only 100% used by pubg ) any suggestion ??? its just appeared now.

Your other posting is here and constantly being replied to.

Severe battery drain, iOS 13.1.3, iPad Pro - Apple Community

Your observations as to battery drain, subject to confirmation of equivalent test conditions, are broadly consistent with my own measurements.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250875987