iPad Air 4 Battery Drain

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Unfortunately, none of the suggested performance improvement fixes have changed the unnecessary, unexplained battery drain. I have to charge my iPA4 at least 2-3x/24 hrs. I do, however, appreciate any and all posters' suggestions of help. Very kind of you. Thank you.

Apple needs to step up and do the right thing. I'm growing tired of the same old song. Even elephant orgs can loose stability with enough resistance.

Hi, same issue here. My iPad is 4 days old. First day out of the box after first charge... I’ve unplugged my iPad at 7am at 100% and came home around 5pm and the iPad was on 33%. No one used the iPad or anything and it was locked with only WiFi on. I owned an iPad mini 4 and it never had issues like that and I have the same settings on my iPad Air as my iPad mini had. My 5 year old iPad mini holds charge better than a brand new iPad Air 4. Been in contact with Apple and they said my battery capacity is at 100% and everything passed the test so they are unsure on why it’s happening. Apple needs to recall devices and provide us with new units or if it’s a software issue to release an iOS update ASAP as I don’t wanna charge my iPad every several hours not being used. My iPad mini not being used for overnight did not even drop 1%... but this is horrible... hope Apple does something soon...

I’ve exactly the same problem with my ipad air 4 wifi + cellular. I’ve tried to disable cellular but the problem persist. I have exactly the same graph than you in the battery menu.

Is there are a problem with ipados ?

In one night, with the ipad lock and in standby mode the battery start with 100% to finish at 0% ...

And the battery menu don’t tell me that a specific app take the battery.

My Apple support person said software was the issue and had me reset it completely, and then to manually add things and apps back, to not restore from any backups.

But I did that and the problem persists. It doesn’t drain as much while I am using it, only when it’s not being used.

I Strongly agree! I have also noticed that the battery drains more when it’s not being used and not while I am using it. I also reset it and didn’t restore it from any backup, but manually. Unfortunately the issue still persists. I’m sure that it’s a software issue...

I did. So mine drains at least 1% per hour with all the background, notifications and location off. I have tried airplane mode, wi fi and Bluetooth off. Turning the device off. It still drains when not being used. My wife had an iPad 8th gen and does not have this issue.

so I have dfu reset from scratch. I have tried different iCloud profiles. I have kept the iPad as new and not installed new apps. I have had Apple run diagnosis abs an authorised Apple tech do the same. They just dfu reset as I had already done. Battery seems by their checks to be okay. tech wrote on the notes. ‘Could be a software issue’. I downloaded and I am currently using ios14.4 rc but it doesn’t seem to have changed the battery performance notably. I get approx 7 hours screen on time if I use it normally. Idle 1%- max 3% per hour. Pretty bad overall. Not impressed with this device. It is also my second unit as the first device had terrible screen bleed. QA is very bad it seems.

I did not replace my device… I'm sure it's a software problem but I'm not sure if it will be fixed with the iPadOS 14 updates or the new iPadOS 15. You said that it’s your second unit... do you mean the second replacement device or your brand new iPad had terrible screen bleed?

First one I had had terrible screen bleed. Replaced it. This one has terrible battery. Didn’t have the first one long enough to test the battery really. I have gotten a refund through Amazon for this iPad now. The question is do I roll the dice and get another one ? I would be very disappointed to have to go through the whole rigmarole again.

I am half tempted to get the 8th gen, save some cash or bail out of iPad altogether and get a MacBook Air.

An update. I set up a brand new iCloud account. I dfu reset and now the iPad battery is behaving as I would expect. So this is an iCloud related bug. I don’t know what settings but will get onto Apple tomorrow and see if they can recommend any steps so that I can use my actual iCloud account. Not very impressed with apple and recent software.

I’m so sorry for both of terrible iPad Air...! I’m very disappointed with apple, too... maybe it’s a good choice to buy the iPad Pro... if you use the Apple Pencil... Please let us know when you have any news for the iCloud account from apple...!

I did as the support dude said and erased everything. Only logged into my iCloud and set it up manually after that (no restoring from backup). It still killed my battery as it had been for about a week or so, but as of a couple of days ago, everything is normal.. Kinda odd.

actually I spoke too soon. Battery drained over night by 10% with wi fi and bluetooth off. I got a refund on that particular ipad this morning.

I have a NEW ipad air 4 replacement device as of today. I am not confident that the issue will be gone as I am fairly sure it is software related. I will keep you all posted. The troubleshoot continues.

Maybe im an idiot and shouldn't have got another one of this model. Time will tell. I will be very annoying for apple customer support if this repeats !

what is normal for you? What would be the percentage overnight drain? Do you have background processes on? Location? Notifications? Does it drain in airplane mode? Does it drain notably even if powered off?

After having owned a brand new iPad Air 4 for a day, it was obvious that the battery drain is horrible and the device is heating up as amply elaborated on this forum...

The tech support acknowledged the issue and I am getting a new replacement device.

Should the replacement have the same issue I will return it and have my money back. I don’t want to wait for Apple to solve this. All fun already spoiled.

Hi, first time posting here but I have the same problem. Brand new iPad Air 4 bought just over a week ago, fine the first few days but since updating to iPadOS 14.3 the battery has been draining overnight (it was at 63% at midnight, then totally drained to 0% at noon the following day, despite having been turned off.

this is my first new iPad in 8 years, but my ancient iPad 3 has a longer battery life.

we installed pro create and got a pencil yesterday, unsure if that’s related but I turned the pencil off before closing down.