Is it normal for my new iPad Pro to drain 5% charge with normal use?

It is not unusual for a new installation to be running background tasks to rebuild all the internal indexes for storage, and the extra work causes more battery load than expected by the user. This usually reverts to normal within about the first day.

The other issue is the New Toy Factor. The rated battery life is for a set of standard conditions which reflect normal usage. You have a new gadget, and if you are anything like me the screen (heavy battery user) was awake for several continuous hours while you explored. My 11" iPad Pro M4 went down to about 60% in a few hours yesterday afternoon after completing the initial setup. After re-charging it dropped 3% overnight in default configuration.

I posted earlier in this thread about my 13" M4 draining fast; well now I also have an 11" Air and that seems even worse. Drains from fully charged to >30% overnight. I bought this for my wife, and all she does is some Instagram and reads a book before she goes to sleep.

@apple any thoughts on this? Do I need to return both units?

I just got iPad Pro 13”, and nothing the same issue if batter draining fast compare to my previous iPas Pro.

@sberman, it looks like you are doing something right with your iPad settings for the health of your battery.

Could you please share your settings, so I can learn from that?

I will really appreciate your help!

supercalafragalistic wrote:

If you charge your iPad to 100 percent and leave it charging for say 5 hours past when it says 100 percent [yiu] you will notice that it never uses any battery drain as it sits at 100 percent for ages. Very strange.

This is not strange at all. Your car’s fuel gage behaves exactly the same way.

My M1 iPad Air battery appears to be far far better than my M4 iPad pro. I love the pro, but losing 42% the other night is not my idea of a good battery, then on standby yesterday evening it dropped about 25% again. There is seemingly some kind of issue going about with the M4 pro I'd say.

@Snearff

Will it really be fixed when they release the new iPadOS in like 3 months time? It's also weird that all those youtubers reviewing the new m4 iPad don't have problem about their battery or they know it and they don't want to say it?

Just received my iPad Pro 11" m4 yesterday. I first charged it fully before turning it on. I started the basic configuration, the iPad downloaded the latest iPadOS. And it rebooted. I then installed everything from scratch. I downloaded all my apps and I configured them. I played a little with my new Precious till late at night and I opened the case again today when I came home. The battery was 86%. Now, after playing with it for an hour, it shows 75%.

So I'd say that I'm pretty happy with the autonomy so far. I will let the battery drain till 10% is left, then a full load. And then I will try to do the 20-80 charge.

Un conseil , installer Battery grapher sur vos iPad Pro puis mettre le widget de cette application , vous allez voir ainsi la consommation en heure en veille .

Mettez les graphiques en capture d écran la normale sur une nuit en veille sans actualisation ni gps c est moins de 2% voir 0%

https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/battery-grapher/id1498632956

LeKeiser wrote:

So I'd say that I'm pretty happy with the autonomy so far. I will let the battery drain till 10% is left, then a full load. And then I will try to do the 20-80 charge.

There's no reason to let it run out to 10%. It won't help or hurt anything to do so. You can charge it at any time.

See here for more details:

When to charge your iPhone or iPad - Apple Community

My M4 11" was at 80% when I went to sleep and this morning it was totally flat. Only has 2 cycles on the battery from when I picked it up on Wednesday.

It seems nobody claiming excessive battery use has discussed battery usage by app. I would think that would be important in discovering the cause.

I had the same issue – I was trying to use my 13 inch pro for video calls but it could only last three one-hour calls. The battery was draining like crazy. Eventually I returned it after one week.

Yes, I too faced battery draining problem in iPad Pro 11 2024. In standby also battery is draining 15-20% overnight. Performance of iPad Air M1 was far better.

hi, I did not backed up mine as I want to start fresh with my new 11 inch m4. Still drains battery significantly faster than my previous ipad’s. Took it to Apple Store and I was told it is normal.

Same for me

had 2018 iPad lost charge mid afternoon but not nearly as fast as this new M4

web and email in the am from 100%, down to 63% in a few hours, down to 5% before noon