iPad battery drains after updating to 16.3.1

Both my iPad 2 and iPhone 8 batteries drain FAST since update to 16.3.1. What to do?


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Posted on Feb 25, 2023 1:55 PM

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Posted on Mar 19, 2023 4:56 PM

I found the same problem on my iPhone SE 3rd Gen. I just found my problem. Maybe it will help you. There is a new setting on my phone called “Clean Energy Charging” which is turned on by default.


Go into Settings, Battery, Battery Health & Charging. At the bottom is “Clean Energy Charging”. I turned this off and my battery stopped draining immediately. I don’t know how this setting finds clean energy to know when to charge, but maybe once it does find it the draining will stop. It’s a nice idea, but causing your battery to drain ridiculously fast seems counter productive and wasteful.


Good luck.

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Nov 2, 2023 7:09 PM in response to JDubsNZ

Hi,


I took I-Pad Pro back to Omni in Henderson Auckland and I’ve just come back from picking it up. They said it was the battery they put in and it was poked and bloated as in swelling. Lasted 3 months. It was a generic. Not an original Apple one. Let’s see how it goes this time, lol.


I’ve tried all the tricks of the trade as in Eg, having location device off and a host of other things. No difference or marginal only. Anyway I had over 6 years of good use. Frustrated to heck I am.


Next year when OLED I-Pad Pro becomes available, I’ll buy a new one. In the mean time fingers crossed as my name isn’t Elon Musk.


Greybeard and others I thank you for your trying to help us all with you knowledge. Kind of you.



Regards Ak. NZ.

Nov 6, 2023 2:45 AM in response to kimnmi

I have an iPad Pro 9.7 updated to 16.7.2 and battery is all messed up won’t let me update it anymore battery was fine before this update. Have seen something saying they would not be including this iPad in the newest updates, so I’m wondering what can be done to fix the issue with my battery now draining 25 minutes after I charge it and it won’t charge to 100 % or only goes to 95% even when it’s on the charger it starts draining I’m really upset that I feel like I’m being forced to have to buy a new one which I won’t be able to do as I just bought this one a year ago.

Dec 13, 2023 3:29 PM in response to kimnmi

Apple wants you to update your device, plain and simple. Really sad on their part. I bought a new Ipad 2 days ago at Best Buy with the intention of restoring from backup of my 6 th gen Ipad. I backed it up before going to get the 9th gen model. Got home and attempted to do the restore. It was backed up on Itunes. Came to find out the backup had mysteriously been encrypted although I never use encryption and Know for a fact I did not enter a password and it kept requiring a password. It would not let me access the backup. I had another older backup that would not transfer. I tried the quick start? putting them side by side which also wouldn't work. I finally got a message I needed to update IOS on old Ipad to IOS on new one. And as I found out the old one would not update to new one's IOS and therefore the transfer would not work. Took it back to Best Buy and was told by Geek Squad they had no way to transfer either and I should go to an Apple store because they had a magic way to possibly do it. I returned it and am now in the market for a Dell 2 in 1. Also my 6th Gen drains with not a minute of use making it worthless. Apple will soon be history in our home. One of the least user friendly products known to man.


Mar 6, 2024 7:04 AM in response to Gena_D

This official Apple response is unhelpful and condescending. It really shows a lack of understanding. We all know here how to minimize battery drain using features basic such as low power mode or preventing apps with high-demanding power needs from being used in the background, or checking our battery health readouts in settings, etc. NO ONE in the thread is asking for base-level user tutorials on how to manage their device. My situation, for example, a near brand new iPad mini, loses 10% battery every THIRTY MINUTES by reading and typing in a journal. Usually, yes, I turn on low power mode, but I shouldn’t have to do that unless Apple is deliberately false advertising, which I know that isn’t the case because I’m not new to Apple products- my household currently has in use an old SE (used as a music box), old iPad, old iPad pro, MacBook Pro, iPhone 11, iPhone SE 2022… you get the picture. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH OUR BATTERY POWER MANAGEMENT AND YOU AREN’T HELPING.

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