iPad Pro 11 2020 (2nd gen) Battery Life

I have had the new iPad Pro 11 (2nd gen) for a couple of weeks and I am having the same experience. Battery started out at 7:30 this AM at 49%. I have looked at a few web pages and done a couple of emails. Total use of about an hour. At 10:30 my battery is at at 36%.

My iPad Pro 10.5 battery lasted for at least two days. This one only lasts a day at best. I’ve lost 2% of battery just writing this post (although I am using a Apple Magic Keyboard at the moment). Really disappointing.

Your post was a good reminder. I too have had most every iPad model starting withe first one. My wife has had most of the mini’s and my son several of the standard models. All of those had far superior battery performance. I never had to worry.

I really like the new form factor but may return it and replace it with the new Air. My battery is now down to 25% (from 49% 4 hours ago). It sat for most of that time other than some website shopping and a couple of emails. Doesn’t feel very Pro :-)

Hi all,

I'm experiancing the same issue, started a few days back.

A few days ago, my iPad Pro 2020 11in was acting all fine, e.g. on standby screen off, no apps running in the background, the battery was only dropping 1% per day.

All the sudden it started to loose battery very fast, even when it is on standby screen of. It looses over 10% of battery overnight.

Bit of a background - I updated my iPad to IOS 14.2 a few weeks back, it behaves normally until a few days ago it started to have battery issue.

I spoke to a support tech today, and he helped me to ran a diagnostics on my iPad. The results were all fine, he couldn't see anything wrong with my battery, it was 100% capacity. Then he helped me to book a time to get my iPad in for a teachnician to check it on the coming Monday.

I will post some update on Monday for the result.

Holy crap, I've been noticing that its declining quite quickly too hence why I started searching on google and then found this thread. There clearly seems to be an issue if many of us are experiencing the same issues. Does anyone know if this has been raised publicly by anyone? I have to iPad Pro 11-2020 256GB Wifi too, bought new, just over a week ago now

I have found the battery life on this iPad to be terrible compared to previous models. I'm not getting on any airplanes right now, but I wonder if I could even play one downloaded movie on this unit without running out of juice. It's really disappointing.

Hi,

glad I’ve come across this discussion. I’m getting my iPad Pro 2020 11 inch WiFi+cellar 128GB I believe tomorrow.

I’m trying to find out if I should drain the battery first and then charge it for 8 hours or charge it for 8 hours before first use?

Can anyone/does anyone know the best option to do? Thanks

Take care and stay safe!

My iPad Pro 11 is only a month old and the battery life decreases quickly as I use it, this is shocking considering how much I paid for it. My old iPad from 2011had much better battery life in fact I'm typing on it right now. Apple needs to look into this

Ive also been getting terrible battery life, about 5 hours on a full charge and terrible standby battery loss. Obviously this is nowhere close to the 10 hours advertised so I’m quite upset. I also have the 12.9 inch not the 11. I would love a solution that didnt involve sending in my ipad to apple for a month.

Same issue! I plugged it in last night, 100% charged this am. Didn’t touch it until 7 in the evening and it’s down to 74%. Background app refresh is off, Facebook is optimized. It just started happening in the past 2 weeks.

Same issue as well. iPad Pro 11 2020 256 gb. Definitely have a battery drain with no idea why? Haven’t had this issue on previous iPad models before. Frustrating. Literally feel like I can watch it just go down for no reason?

Did you find anything out since? I seem to see similar patterns.

Thanks for the advice. I think I understand that. I’ll give it a charge before first use but not for many hours

Battery life very disappointing here, too. Just surfing plain text sites in Safari eats up digit after digit.