iPad Air 5 poor battery life

Well, I called Apple and offered to exchange this to the pro, three week after when I truly was confident the battery is terrible on the Air 5th. I was absolutely willing to pay the difference and they would only except trade-in! 249 for the iPad I paid 929 for in Canada… it had not even cleared my credit card yet.

WHAT AN INSULT! they would not do anything.

Well, I called Apple and offered to exchange this to the pro, three week after when I truly was confident the battery is terrible on the Air 5th. I was absolutely willing to pay the difference and they would only except trade-in! 249 for the iPad I paid 929 for in Canada… it had not even cleared my credit card yet.

WHAT AN INSULT! they would not do anything.

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Just wondering if you could explain how you went through the process of getting it checked out. Everytime I contact support, they run a remote battery diagnostic check and say its running normally, yet I'm only getting max 4 hours of battery life. Thank you!!

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)

Just got mine on 3 days ago....nothing running except the battery charge continues to go down rapidly. Not happy

Ya, get rid of it before it is too late... I waited a few days past the return date... stupid me. Very unhappy with the battery life. My 4 year-old 6th Gen far outlasts this one; even my original 2010 1st Gen (still have it) outlasts it!

They’ve simply used a weak battery for the iPad Air. I’m also quite disappointed with my brand-new iPad Air. I’m using it for studies, mainly note taking, and the battery is drained after half a day of use.

So i’m assuming that the battery life will really start being annoyingly short in a year or two. I’ll consider returning it as a different commenter suggested.

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i had the same issue with a new iPad Air.

took it in to apple and they ran testing and said no issues came up with batter.

battery health is 100.

I lose about 20% of battery per hour.

I get 5 hours Max on a full charge with full brightness.

I feel like we’ve all been scammed.

I traded in an iPad Pro gen 3 for this newer smaller iPad.

at the store the apple employee looked up battery life between my old iPad and new iPad Air and it clearly states 10 hrs of bagger life on video playback or safari browsing.

I had them restore it. Started from scratch. Same thing.

took it in. They replaced it.

guess what. My replacement is no different. 20% use per hour.

updated to most recent iOS.

I have ZERO notifications on iPad.

I have Background app refresh turned off.

this is utterly disappointing and unacceptable…

wish I had good news… believe me.

Same here. Felt like I was going insane! The support person ran a remote diagnostic and declared the battery health is fine.

But, as I explained to them, I was so fed up with the battery draining that I charged to 100% and manually powered off the iPad...after month or so, I turn it on and the battery is 30%!!!

But iPad Air 5 does not record this data with timestamps - so it is hard to prove this happens.

In countries where Apple sells the products at even more inflated rates, you really do feel ripped off. In this region - for instance - the exchange rate's around 80. But Apple multiples USD rates by 100. (They manufacture devices in the region!!!)

The same problem n no solutions, the test made by apple say my battery is 100%… n they don’t change my ipad or give me a solution to it. I don’t know what to do

I am absolutely disappointed with my new IPad Air 5, bought only two weeks ago. The battery drains so fast I can scarcely watch for an evening. My old one used to last all day . I also dislike the unnecessary changes made in systems that needed no change. Not recommended.

Having similar issue with my iPad Air 5. It is barely a week old, installed and updated the latest iPad OS. Battery it drains faster than my 3 year old iPad Pro 2 gen. Wish I had paid the extra RM700 to buy the latest iPad Pro with the M2

I got my iPad Air 5 replaced 2 days back with a new one and the battery backup was just around 4 hrs and unfortunately the replacement unit doesn’t looks to be any good. Looks like is an issue with the all the iPad Air 5’s

There is no battery health option in an iPad. Apple doesn’t put that option in an item with a non replaceable battery. Screenshot iPad Air gen 5, iOS 16.2