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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.
So I have used the “new” iPad for 5 days. The first 4 days it performed the same as the one I exchanged. Meaning the battery was completely discharged after 3-4 hours of reading. Last night I turned the screen brightness down just a bit and today after 4 hours of reading the battery is at 75%, so pretty good. I hope the performance continues…
Whatever is going on with this generation and battery life seems to be related to the screen. However I haven’t been able to get Apple to acknowledge that this is a known problem or what the real issue is.
My IPad Air 5th Gen has the worst battery I've ever had in an Ipad. I've had 3 IPads in my life, 4 with the Air 5th Gen I just purchased and I've experienced very very bad battery life and overheating while using it without it being charging. They really need to fix this issue. I am coming from using an IPad 7th Gen and it had a wonderfu battery that would last days even with me using it all day. With the IPad Air 5th Gen I have to charge it around 3 times a day since I use it all day to work. Right now I was writing some notes and it lost 2% battery in 10 minutes while I was only using GoodNotes.
My IPad Air 5th Gen is NEW and it should not be having these battery issues.
After using the replacement iPad for about a month, I am able to go six hours on a charge. I don’t know if it’s the device or the iOS updates that are responsible. However even six hours seems much shorter than the previous three iPads I’ve had. Again I only read books, no video, browsing, etc…
I was interested in the reset idea and found this article, which states that resetting should make no difference due to the operating system: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/46275/will-a-reset-make-my-old-ipad-faster#:~:text=In%20an%20environment%20such%20as,the%20same%20at%20the%20end.
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?
My mistake. Not enough coffee in me yet today and thought it was on iPhone!
Same , Upgraded from An Air 3 ( which had the blank screen of death ) ..
and now again after spending so mich money . This air 5 has battery issues .
the Quality of apple is falling day by day .
Same problem. New Ipad Air 5, lucky to get 4 hours on the battery, mix of Email, Facebook (Admin in Groups), reading News etc. Have done all Battery saving recommendations. Very frustrating.
Try checking if automatic app updates is enabled. This drains the battery even on standby, which was the case for me.
iPad Air 5 battery life is horrible, returned it less than a week after purchase. My 5 years old iPad 5th gen will have to old up until Apple do their homework!
Yes, it's really hard to get a good pattern of what you can expect within 14-days; especially when you loose a few days getting it and setting it up
Hello! I was also having this problem, and reset all settings and now my battery is lasting just fine. Hopefully that works for you!
Hi Elly. Can you tell us exactly what setting you applied, please. Might be worth a try.
Agradezco mucho los comentarios de este foro. Pensaba comprar un iPad 5, pero no haré porque la duración de la batería es un factor fundamental. Gracias
Just got mine on 3 days ago....nothing running except the battery charge continues to go down rapidly. Not happy
iPad Air 5 poor battery life
