iPad battery health check

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iPad battery health check

I have various iPads and I just checked the battery health on our iPhones, and tried to do the same on my iPad and I have no idea why this very necessary feature is not available on iPad OS.

Customers should be able to check their item battery health, this is especially important if buying a second hand device, as this indicates how much the item was used. For instance my iPhone XS Max battery is still on 100%, while my wifes is on 92%, we bought the phones together.

Very disappointing, I hope this very necessary feature can be added back to iPad OS.

Now I am searching for a outside tool to check my iPad batteries, anyone know an app which can do that?

iPad Pro, iOS 13

Posted on Nov 14, 2019 5:06 PM

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y_p_w

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Nov 14, 2019 7:44 PM in response to Dirk Bunge

The only battery health display for iPads I know of is from coconutBattery for MacOS. The value does go up and down (seems to be temperature dependent to some degree) and the developer says that it's more of a live reading that can fluctuate.

https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

Apple obviously can do a diagnostic and access that information. I think the BatteryLife app used to be able to do that for iPads, but since iOS 12 (and of course iPadOS 13) they haven't been able to directly access that info.

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Nov 14, 2019 6:25 PM in response to QuickPost

Yes I shockingly realized that, tried several apps already but all not working.

Apple lock the iPad batteries from checks, no idea why they do that. Very frustrating.

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Nov 14, 2019 10:02 PM in response to Dirk Bunge

Dirk Bunge wrote:

It's an 2013 iMac but updated to Catalina 10.15.1., connected via lightning cable, error msg no iOS device found.

Don't know what else to say other than it doesn't make any sense to me. They certainly have additional features for the "Plus" version (at $9.99 in the US) but they list "iOS (7-13) Battery Diagnostic" in the standard feature set for the free version.

https://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/#plus

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Nov 14, 2019 6:06 PM in response to Dirk Bunge

Hello,

Battery Health is exclusive to iPhone.

You are welcome to share your feedback with Apple using the following link.

Product Feedback - Apple

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y_p_w

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Nov 14, 2019 9:01 PM in response to Dirk Bunge

Dirk Bunge wrote:

Tried all 3 versions available on that site, none works with my iPad pro or iPhone connecting to my old iMac

I've got a mid-2012 MBP running Catalina. I suppose it could have limits if you've got a really old iMac and/or are running a really old version of MacOS/OSX.

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Dirk Bunge Author

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Nov 14, 2019 7:48 PM in response to y_p_w

Thanks for that info, tried it before already and surprise surprise, it is not working.

It can't connect to my iOS devices, either need full version or it is blocked.

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Nov 14, 2019 8:38 PM in response to y_p_w

Tried all 3 versions available on that site, none works with my iPad pro or iPhone connecting to my old iMac

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Dirk Bunge Author

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Nov 14, 2019 9:04 PM in response to y_p_w

It's an 2013 iMac but updated to Catalina 10.15.1., connected via lightning cable, error msg no iOS device found.

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y_p_w

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Nov 14, 2019 8:25 PM in response to Dirk Bunge

Dirk Bunge wrote:

Thanks for that info, tried it before already and surprise surprise, it is not working.

It can't connect to my iOS devices, either need full version or it is blocked.

That sounds odd. I've always used the free version, and I've been able to get connected device battery info. I did have an earlier version that didn't display iOS device data, but that was at least 5 years ago.

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