iPad Air 4 Battery Drain

Also experiencing same problem as everyone on this thread. I bought the standard ipad for my son few weeks before i got my ipad air. The standard ipad drains less than 1% / 24hrs in standby with background activities, bluetooth and wifi enabled. Air drains several % / 24hrs. I would estimate i get 4-5 hrs web browsing on the air from a full charge. Standard ipad probably the promised 10 hrs. Compared video streaming and air consumed ~20% more battery. 🙁

I notice the same thing.. everything off (screen, wifi, blue tooth, etc) overnight yet I still lose 3-5% overnight for no reason. Brand new iPad 4 Air. Very odd. Anyway to report this to Apple as something isn’t right.

Hi SoupLauncher.... Seems like Apple doesn't think there's problem even though we are easily seeing battery problems when our units are turned off.. Time will tell when Apple finally acknowledges the issues we are reporting. No idea if it's an iPadOS problem or an actual battery problem. I am an electrical engineer so I know that we shouldn't see these sorts of battery drop issues with brand new units with Lithium Ion batteries when the units aren't even turned on.

My iPad Air 4 is wifi only. When I am actually using my iPad for work (which is most of the time the iPad is being used), wifi and bluetooth are OFF so only the screen is on and nothing else is running in the background (all apps are closed except for the single app that is open and being used by me)... yet the battery still drains.

How many of you others with the same battery drain problem have contacted Apple support to report your battery problems?

It is funny I also have an iPad Pro 2 and using iOS 14.2, 256gb, wifi only and there is no battery drainage... use for 3 or 4 hours non stop on internet, reading etc and my battery drops only 12/15% ——- When using iPad Air 4, same usage and battery is down to 45/50% so please don’t tell me that there is no problem on iPad Air 4 Please someone at Apple correct this problem paying 1000.00$ can for an iPad I expect better results

I erred above.. the Apple Store tech reverted back to a fresh copy of 14.2, not to 14.0 as stated above; v. 14 is no longer signed by Apple, therefore, it is no longer available. I did try to downgrade to 14.1 (I was able to download the image file on my computer) but keep running into errors in Tunes when I try to install it. Oh well.. guess I'll leave things at 14.2 and see what happens.

(Incidentally, is there a way to edit a prior post? I see no way to edit one of my prior posts.. odd that that wouldn't be an option.)

Same issue here iPad Air 4 WiFi +cellulair 64g. Still runnen 14.1 Os. Overnight on stand-by drain from About 50% to 12%. New and Unique for ipados is of course the a14 chip. I suggest Apple to look into this issue seriously

I am also having the same issue here with my new iPad. Just by reading this forum with Low brightness my battery has drained 3 percent. Really disappointed with the battery life. I just had it for couple of days and only used Procreate and watched some YouTube nothing too heavy but it’s draining fast

Same issue here, but on standby mode my iPad doesn’t drain at all, but while using, doing simple things such as reading or note taking battery drains really fast, I have been on this website less than 10 mins and already 6% has drained. I’ve pretty worried man.

I'm going to give it a go. Like others here, I am amazed at how fast the battery drains, even when the iPad is off. Like another subscriber here, I use it only to read most of the time. Do not have Apple pencil and never watch videos or play music. In fact, as I said, I do bugger all on it and the battery is worse than the little one I traded in.

Thanks for the advice. I was in touch with them this morning and have to wait for an adapter so I can backup the iPad and reset it it to factory settings and start again. I told them if that didn't work, I would be seeking a replacement and they said that would be the next step.

I advised that I'd turned off pretty well anything that took up power, apps in the background, notifications, brightness etc etc. But it still lost 10% overnight last night when off.

I've also drained the battery as someone suggested in this thread, and am now re-charging to see if that helps as I have to wait a week for the USB-A to USB-C adapter to arrive. My iMac is old and although I got a new hard drive and upgraded RAM and it runs beautifully, it doesn't have the right port for either my iPhonen or iPad! Technology huh?

Thanks for your help. I'll come back with the outcome in due course.

Please keep us posted.. yes, I would have been nice for Apple to include a USB-C to USB-A cable. I ran into the same issue and had to buy one in order to backup my iPad to iTunes before doing a factory reset and restoring. That didn't fix the battery problem, though.

I really don't know that. But the Apple online chat person said, the next step would be to replace. If it is a software problem then I'm sure they'll be monitoring this forum and something will change. I certainly hope so. Good luck with yours, let us know how it goes :)

I'm noticing a pattern emerging here when trusting buyers are calling Apple service technicians for help regarding this specific new product concern:

Trusting buyer purchases new cycle 2020 iPad Air 4.

Trusting buyer notices immediately upon opening and operating an unusual & unexplainable battery drain while unit is idle.

Trusting buyer calls Apple for help.

Apple service technician informs buyer to purchase a new cord from Apple to backup the unit before help can commence.

Trusting buyer purchases new cord from Apple for backup.

Trusting buyer again calls Apple service technician.

Apple service technician instructs buyer to perform factory reset using newly purchased cord from Apple.

Trusting buyer performs backup as instructed; no change in solving the iPad Air 4's battery drain.

Trusting buyer informs Apple service technician of the non-change.

Apple service technician informs now-skeptical buyer that all looks normal on their end, and goodbye.

Please note: Apple does not meet the specific call-to-action on behalf of the trusting buyer, nor do they fix the original source of the problem, namely the suspected (and in many cases confirmed over the phone with Apple) defective battery drain; Apple does, however, successful convince the trusting buyer that they need to spend an additional $19 on a cord before they will try to fix an issue that never should have occurred in the first place. In effect Apple generates additional revenue from the trusting buyer by preying on their desperation to remedy a seemingly defective situation out-of-the-box.

This, dear readers, reads like a scam.

Thanks for that information. I wonder if I might have jumped the gun with my complaint as I found the transfer of info to my new iPad Air (14.3) was not complete...lots of books and emails did not automatically download. Now they are. The last time I charged to 100% 0n Tuesday 29 at 1.54 Australian Central daylight savings time, it was all downloaded. In short, it is now 9 am on 31st Dec here and the iPad has lost only 5%.

However, I looked at it several hours ago and it was 96% and apart from looking at battery usage since Tuesday, it has dropped 2% this morning. No activity by apps.

I'll come back when I've spent some time using the thing...HOWEVER, I've got it open beside me ATM and it seems to be dropping 1% every few minutes just being on!!!