New IPad Pro M4 13 inch battery draining fast

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 also have the same impression. The battery of my 11-inch iPad Pro M4 drops similarly to my old iPad Air 4 (no battery changed). I was expected to hold more.

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.

Update: as predicted by several on this string, my pro M4 has settled right down and is now giving me great battery life. Happy with purchase.

The problem occur’s when iPad is newly set-up by pulling data from old iPad. I faced battery drain problem for 2-3 days, now battery is performing as normal ie almost a week in standby.

So my new (factory replaced) 11” did exactly the same thing as my first. That’s 2 for 2 which have become incredibly hot and had massive battery drain with nothing running in the background.

The second one failed about an hour before I was leaving for the airport and I took some photos of how hot it was getting. Below is my M4 iPad alongside my iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The I pad discharged from 80% to 0% in a matter of minutes with nothing running.

HOWEVER!!!!!!

I turned it off and threw it in my bag at 0% charge and took my 5 hour flight. I have charged it 16 times now without issue. It seems to be working fine. No heat, no battery drain, nothing. The battery still isn’t fantastic but it for sure is acceptable and working fine.

No software updates, no changes in settings, (I wish there were so we could find the issue) - it just started working again. I even put my battery on full 100% charge (I stay at 80%) to try and get it to fail. The last 5 charges were to 100% without issue.

Can’t explain it, and it may happen again, but for now I’m happy (again).

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

Apple please delete this reply … I accidentally did it twice.

Got mine in store I don’t like waiting for things.

Oh I know latest and greatest tech is my kryptonite. Also the battery drain isn’t like holy it’s just slightly faster but it’s also like i said new. Here’s mine there might be ppl out there with some crazy drain but either they got a dud or they just don’t know what they doing lol and my drop was from usage there is no phantom drain issue on my unit. So don’t be discouraged also obviously mine is the 11in you’ll prob get better results on a 13in.

Je confirme ayant un pro 11 5G M2 et maintenant un pro 11 5G mais M4 .

En veille l autonomie diminue plus. Maintenant c est surement iCloud aussi mais un iPad même en sycho qui diminue de 40% en une nuit c est anormale

jdinla wrote:

At this very moment flying NYC to LA and with two hours to go, I’m down to 33%. I should have plenty of battery left, and simply not the case.

You have asked us to guess what the state of charge might have been when you left NYC. You also are asking us to guess what you might be doing with your iPad on board the airplane.