Excessive battery drain with iPadOS on iPad Pro

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Excessive battery drain with iPadOS on iPad Pro

Excessive battery drain with iPadOS on iPad Pro. Not sure when it started (has seemed to be for a while (I’m currently using M4 iPad Pro), but definitely ongoing with iPadOS 18 and iPadOS 18.1. Loses at least 10-15% every 12 hours (and sometimes more, which may depend whether WiFi or cellular data). Only active process in Battery section of iPadOS is Find My, so it seems to be a bug associated with Find My. Anyone found a solution? Do I just have to turn Find My off?

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iPad Pro, iPadOS 18

Posted on Nov 2, 2024 4:06 PM

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WheelieNick

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Nov 2, 2024 4:22 PM in response to jsreeves06

Have you updated in the last couple of days? It could be that the iPad is still busy indexing the update, that could take a couple of days

If no, have you tried to restart the iPad?

if that is not working, you might want to report this to apple as feedback using this form

Product Feedback - Apple

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Answer 2

Dec 5, 2024 8:20 AM in response to PinckneyBH

Try re-installing iPadOS 18.1.1 and Find My. Also a simple restart can make the work. Try to power it off for 24 hours and the boot it up. This worked with my cousin's iPad Air M2.

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jsreeves06 Author

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Nov 2, 2024 4:35 PM in response to jsreeves06

I’ve updated on day of release for each update. It should be done indexing, and it clearly shows Find My draining it under Battery in Settings. There’s also many similar posts around here and other forums. I’ll report it

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Nov 3, 2024 1:28 AM in response to jsreeves06

There could me many reasons first of all it could be you haven’t done the required software update, or it could be that the brightness is on full, which as I have also experienced tend to take a lot of battery. If none of suggestions are true then it could be because of the apps. You might have downloaded some unnecessary apps which also tend to take a lot of battery.. Hope this helped

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jsreeves06 Author

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Nov 3, 2024 4:01 AM in response to Help_people123

This occurs while iPad Pro is asleep and closed (with Magic Keyboard). And as stated, it already has latest iPadOS update (18.1). Per Battery in Settings, the only app using battery at these times is “Find My.” I have reported it to Apple. There are other posts here and elsewhere with same complaint. It used to last weeks while asleep, but now it is lucky to last days.

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Tim Baker

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Nov 21, 2024 5:21 PM in response to jsreeves06

I have been experiencing this ever since iPadOS 18 and many others have as well.

I’ve had some extreme losses at times, going to bed with 90% battery and waking up with 30% and it’s all attributed to Find My. I’ve tried signing out and turning off Find My and it doesn’t fix the issue.

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Dec 5, 2024 8:15 AM in response to jsreeves06

Nightmare since updating to IOS 18.1.1 Go to sleep fully charged and wake up to drained battery. I use my iPad Pro in lieu of my laptop 95% of the time - the screens are the same size.

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Excessive battery drain with iPadOS on iPad Pro

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