Powered off iPad Pro battery drain... iPad OS 13.5

I have had the same problem with my brand-new ipad pro 12 since I’ve updated and I have contacted AppleCare and spoke to someone on the phone and they’ve ran a Diagnostics and he said everything looks completely fine so told me to try and re-install the update so I tried it and Still the same so I decided to downgrade back to 13.4.1 and now it works completely fine and no battery drain.

Same problem (iPhone 11 Pro Max) - I’ve been researching this for some time. I now believe it is some sort of synchronization thrashing problem. This worked for me:

Log out of your Apple account.

Log back in.

I chose to “remove” data like contacts, etc. which is an option when logging out of your Apple account.

Another poster elected to keep local data and then did a “merge” when he logged back in Which worked for him.

I also reset my network settings but I’m not sure this was necessary.

I was also finding my iPad was not shutting down even with my magnetic cover. Along with running the battery to zero, I also had issues with it taking 24 hrs to charge. I am unsure how the setting changed, as I did not change, and wondering if it changes in the update. In the settings my iPad was set on auto lock never and lock/unlock turned off.

Not sure if others is having this particular issue but it fixed all the problems.

Jack.... have you update the ipad to 13.6?? Since last night - my ipad is now on 99% - the battery finally holding on instead of draining!

Hi there I did manage to do it when I had the previous update 13.5. I thought I would update it to 13.5.1 and maybe it will fix it but realised that since I’ve updated to13.5.1 I can’t downgrade it back to 13.4.1. You can only downgrade it to the previous updates. And now the problems got worse as I Fully charge it for one night and leave it for a couple of days and find out the battery is completely flat now and it’s definitely something to do with the firmware Not hardware. And I found out that I switched it off properly with the power button and found out after a couple hours came back on by it self. Looks like we just have to wait until the new iOS 14 comes out and hopefully Apple would have fixed it.

Hi Guys.... until we hope that Apple will fix this issues - but at the meantime... you can put your ipad in "Airplane Mode" and it sure won't drain the battery. I had it charged 100% ... then set it on Airplane Mode before turning my ipad off.

I didn't use my ipad for 3 days and turned it on over the weekend.... guess what? It's still 100% full! :) So, I'm thinking - when you are not using your ipad - set it on the airplane mode for now.

Hope this helps! :)

d f u mode is like doing a hard reset but you have to push and hold a combination of buttons and have it hooked up to Mac or use compatible program in windows that works with d f u mode which allows you to update iso software

Hello,

You will need to call Apple for diagnosis.

Contact AppleCare

Call!

Just do not leave feedback!

While Apple reads the feedback, you'll get much better results by just calling then on this issue!

FYI i just checked and version 13.6 is available. I have it loading now. Fingers crossed they fixed it.

Have you tried turning the charging the iPad to 100%, turning the unit off, waiting 24 hours, then turning it back on again? I would be curious what the battery percentage would be in that case.

I have had this problem with my 11” iPad Pro. I think I know something related to the cause.

I have an Apple Watch and an iPhone, so I use Wi-Fi Calling. I have seen a change on the iPad since iPadOS 13.5 related to Wi-Fi calling when powering up the iPad. It’s as if the iPad spent the night trying to enable Wi-Fi calling.

I have reported this to Apple.

I don’t have a good solution. The workaround I have been using is not shutting down the iPad.

Have you tried disabling "Allow Calls on Other Devices" to see if that solves it?

supermotive wrote:

Have you tried disabling "Allow Calls on Other Devices" to see if that solves it?

Good question.

No, I have not tried that as it would adversely affect my Apple Watch.