iPad Air 5 battery is draining fast. After watching Netflix, about 2 and a half hours, my battery was already down to 40% from a charge of 100%. I have noticed that the life of the battery did not seem to match my last iPad Air 3 since I received it. Is this OS related?
iPad Air, iPadOS 15
Hello Hadrielsfury,
For difficulties with your battery life, you'll want to take the following steps:
This resource has more details on each of those steps: Batteries - Maximizing Performance
Should you continue to face difficulties with your battery life after taking those steps, you'll want to reach out to Apple Support so they can look into this further: Contact Apple Support
Take care.
Hello Hadrielsfury,
For difficulties with your battery life, you'll want to take the following steps:
This resource has more details on each of those steps: Batteries - Maximizing Performance
Should you continue to face difficulties with your battery life after taking those steps, you'll want to reach out to Apple Support so they can look into this further: Contact Apple Support
Take care.
I have the exact same issue. Upgraded from my iPad Air 3. The battery on the iPad Air 5 was draining quite fast, 49% down within 2.5 hours.... Apple support advised updating your iPad as this fixes the battery drain issue. I will test this out once updated.
Maybe this will help someone else, in my case it turned out to be a bad sensor in the ipad air that caused the battery to drain very fast. I think it was the internal barometer. The diagnostic tool at the Apple store was able to find. Anyhow, a good test to see is even turning off wifi and not having the screen turned on - the ipad would still use up most of the battery in a day. For a frame of reference, a new ipad air 5th gen should be able to go multiple days with normal use - hours of browsing, watching videos etc..
I was able to get what I would consider expected battery life with rebooting and also using the suggestions provided around enabling low power mode and "Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple". Hope those steps are able to aid you as well.
I have the latest software and have tried all the steps mentioned but ipar air 5 battery life is terrible.. have to charge atleast twice a day where as my ipad air 3 used to last entire day comfortably with my usage..
CzarVRT wrote:
I have the latest software and have tried all the steps mentioned but ipar air 5 battery life is terrible.. have to charge atleast twice a day where as my ipad air 3 used to last entire day comfortably with my usage..
If you are experiencing difficulties with your iPad battery holding charge, you might be best advised to first have your iPad tested.
If you directly contact Apple Support - and explain your problem - you can request a remote battery diagnostic. The tests will confirm the status of your battery - and other elements of your iPad’s health.
Alternatively, a visit to the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store would provide opportunity for your iPad to be similarly tested by the Apple technicians - after which you can explore your available options.
You can contact Apple Support using the Contact Support link at top-right of this page. You can also initiate a support case using the excellent Apple Support App; if not already installed on your iPad, the App can be downloaded from the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/apple-support/id1130498044
My iPad Air 5 is less than a week old. In roughly an hour's use this morning, battery life has dropped from 100% to 65%. Plus, the device is quite warm. Battery life on my iPad Air 3 is far better without the heat. And most of what I wasn't doing wasn't processor intensive (mostly editing contacts), but that shouldn't really matter on a new, state of the art device.
Let me add that in this iPad battery life comparison between the iPad Mini, base iPad, iPad Air 5 and the 2 iPad Pro versions, the new M1 iPad Air 5 recorded the worst battery life, shutting down about 3 hours sooner than the cheapest base iPad. Disappointing.
My relatively new Ipad air 5th gen (purchased a month ago) all of a sudden starts having fast battery drain issues. After trying all the tips, I noticed when looking at the battery usage, there isn’t any particular app that ends up using 98% of the battery. Its random and this is when the ipad is just left unattended. I tried a complete factory reset. Not installing any apps after the reset and its still draining super fast - 50% of battery in a 4 hours while un attended/used. I suspect the internal sleep mode is not activating, any way to check?
This was my issue too. I was quite surprised since I just bought my Air 5 a few days ago but the battery doesn’t last even up to 5 hours. Though after optimizing my settings, I found that what helped me save the battery the most was turning off automatic app updates (other than turning off background app refresh and mail push)
Hopefully this helps someone else. I’ve mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I was getting about 5 or 6 hours use from my 2022 iPad Air. Performing a forced restart (or sometimes referred to as a hard reset) improved the battery life for me. I now get about 9 to 10 hours use. I updated to the latest iPadOS (16.1) prior to doing the reset.
An Apple support article explaining how to do this is available here.
Force restart iPad – Apple Support (AU)
Apple_Aaron wrote:
Let's check to see if the battery is degraded. Go to Settings->Battery->Battery Health. What is the maximum capacity on that screen and also do you have optimized charging on?
The battery health feature is not available on iPad. This feature is exclusive to iOS for iPhone. iOS/iPadOS for iPad has never had the Battery Health feature - most likely because iPad batteries are both considerably larger and have a much longer service life.
An iPad battery is rated to maintain at least 80% of its initial capacity after 1000 full charge/discharge cycles - whereas an iPhone is rated to have 80% of initial capacity after 500 full cycles.
There are software packages available that can access battery cycle count. Popular choices for Mac are Coconut Battery and iMazing - whereas iMazing is available for PC.
Me too, have had numerous iPads and just came from a 6th gen iPad. This thing is terrible form the normal use I have come to expect and really experience in my daily use. Not impressed at all. Only been casually on it for 3 hours and 5% now causing me to search these forums. There must be something going on with these.
fully updated and restarted. But loads of daily experience with multiple iPads.
ForeFlight does can not even handle 3 hours, my 6th gen was easily 6.
Replying again to this thread after some time. Still having battery issues with my iPad Air latest gen. I noticed that after say 2 hours watching Hulu using my AirPods that the battery was drained to 45%-50% the last two nights. Wonder if this is a bluetooth issue? It would be great to have access to an apple diagnostic utility outside of having to bring the device into an apple store. Is there a diagnostic tool for me to use?
I have the same issue. I just got this on the mail 2 days ago and have been trying everything. I got it for school and this drains 20%+ every 30 minutes. This issue needs to be addressed asap. I shouldn’t have to turn off the automatic updates etc for my iPad Air 5 to last me more than 3 hrs.
iPad Air 5 poor battery life
