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

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Hope this helps!

Has something to do with the new update. I have the iPad Pro 12.9 2020 4th gen… it started this a few days ago after I updated it…

Yes, for me too. Branta makes a good point about the new toy factor, but I never got over that stage with my previous iPad, so I've been using this new one exactly the same (which I admit is a lot.)

I'll wait for a few days to let things settle in, but first impression is that it's using battery markedly faster than the 12.9" Pro. I passed that one on to my wife, so I can run some comparison tests if it persists.

Yes, I have a similar experience, battery is draining to fast.

Does any one have issue on the screen surface being un even, in the sense pencil does not flow smooth. I thought screen protector will change but certain areas remain the same

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.

I recently bought my new M4 iPad Pro and have hardly any apps on it. Morning I had 68% battery and just after browsing on safari for 5hrs brought by battery down to just 6%. Its draining way too fast during simple web surfing without videos and also in standby it looses between 5-10%. What’s the point of adding M4 or heavy processors when the apps don’t even need 40% of it while the battery doesn’t last more than just few hours 😓

Sorry, don't guess, i'll tell you: it was at 100%.

Also, don't guess what i was doing: it was streaming media (downloaded to the device) and email connected via in-flight wifi. Some web browsing.

All these activities I'd do constantly on my previous 4th gen iPad pro and it performed far better.

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!

My new 2024 11 inch iPad Pro is seeing issues with the battery draining overnight from 80% to 0% it wouldn’t even turn on in the morning. Any ideas why it can drain when off? I never had an iPad do this in the past. My old v1 iPad Pro still hold a better charge. In fact, it was sitting right next to the 2024 iPad and it still has plenty of charge and hasn’t been plugged in for a few days.

I am agree with you i dont know why this is happening it’s draining so fast like a tap water.i love my previous m2 ipad great battery life no draining issues now what’s happening i dont know.please fix this issue apple.I already reset it restart it nothing improvement.

Same problem here,,, I got iPad pro with M4 chip 11 incest the battery is draining too fast without using. I charged it to 95% then restarted and standby for about an hour and now I only have 73% of battery..

please Apple developer you need to fix this ASAP

I took my ipad m4 to the genius bar due to the same issues as everyone here, BATTERY DRAINS FAST.

Apple staff tweaked and updated the ipad and told me to return if still experiencing the same thing. Well it still does the same thing. So I went back today. The staff that assisted me it is normal for this new Ipad for the battery to drain this fast. NOT HAPPY!

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.

I want to buy the M4 iPad pro 11 inch but I'm thinking twice now because I seen so many of you having ridiculous battery drain issues. Does this only happened when you choose to restore the backup files from your old iPad or does it also happened when you just set it up as brand new device without restoring backup files? If anyone knows please reply as it would help me with my decision, thanks a lot :)