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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
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.
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 would return it before you run out of time. I called in just after the return allotment time and got nowhere. Well actually, they offered me $225 trade in to go to the pro and I had just paid $949 Canadian. Nice of them. What an insult. I have been buying Apple since the 80s and have multiple products of theirs and this is the real first time I called in a favour. Even Apple now has lost its ability to reason or understand that I needed an exception. Oh well… next Apple product I buy will be passionless, sad for a company that built its empire on passion and vision. I think the term now is “whatever…”.
For benefit of all who find this thread, the following information may be helpful.
If your iPad has been purchased directly from Apple, you have 14-days within which you can unconditionally return an item for repair or exchange. If having any difficulties, you would be well advised to make use of the opportunity while it remains available.
Upon expiry of 14-days, the opportunity to exchange the iPad has been lost - after which the device will be assessed under the terms of the limited one-year warranty. If the iPad is assessed by Apple as defective, Apple reserve the right to offer a reconditioned iPad of the same model and specification in lieu of repair.
I’ve also had this issue. I get between 5 and 6 hours of YouTube style use before the battery needs charging again. I have had the battery remote tested by Apple support and they told me that it is fine. I have moved to an iPad Air (gen 5) from an iPad Air 2 (from 2014) and the old iPad lasted much longer, battery-wise.
A real shame.
I personally feel Apple iPad Air 5 battery is not up to the standards. I usually use it for my classes. It hardly last for a class. Basic things such as browsing internet, seeing videos on YouTube or Amazon prime, battery hardly last for 5 hrs. Apple claim that the battery could last for at least 10 hours. Disappointed.
Yes, now on a trip in Europe. Does not last the day for on and off researching, safari, maps, etc… non cell, only wifi, settings restrained for battery life. Don’t think it can get 3 hours in reality. Extremely disappointed. New iPad buyers, stay clear of this model due to battery life, and I find the lack of Face ID I miss actually.
You should buy an Ipad Pro, instead. I first bought an Ipad air 5 but due to the horrible battery life I switched to an Ipad Pro 12.9 inch and its day and night. The battery last at least 10 hours of real usage.
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.
sorry duplicate, it did not refresh for me so pasted again…
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!!
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.
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.
iPad Air 5 poor battery life
