New iPad battery drain

Eph411, thanks a lot for pointing iCloud issue. I was struggling from last 10 days with my ipad mini battery and tried everything possible on forums. Only switching off iCloud back up worked. Earlier my ipad battery was draining 5-10% every hour and now it's only 1% on continuous usage. Even I recommend switching iCloud backup for battery drain issue.

I have a new Ipad mini, and have been noticing that in the last couple weeks its wont keep charged. I have been noticing that it cant seem to sync with my emails correctly. just started a week ago. a coworker today has said that his Ipad a regular one started having battery problems this week also.

I charge my Ipad all night, in the morning i check email and facebook nothing crazy It sits on my coffee table all day not being used and when I get home it has 5% battery life. Its less then a year old.

I"d suggest that you read up in this thread and look for suggestions that others made. FOr example, when you install iOS6 it defaults to all notifications being on and active and most people need just a few if any at all. You may also have background processes running, apps that are constantly reaching out to get data.

Look at your e-mail, see if it's set to push or fetch. Push means your iPad is reaching out to the server every few minutes to check for mail, which runs down the battery. But fetch means that it only goes for mail when you tell it to go, which is much more battery efficient.

There are other suggestions up there that may apply to you.

If you go through all that and your iPad is still not having good battery life, then you may wish to make an appointment at your local apple store and have them check it out.

Thank you for your response, I have had this for 9 months with no issues till now. I did check and notifications were all reset to on. So I turned those off maybe that will help. Other wise all settings are still the same. Came home today and it was dead, and needed charge. I think I might have to take it in.

I might be way late but this post says exactly what is happening to me.

I had a 16gb iPad air and I recall it took 45min to get to 98% and now I exchanged it with a 32gb iPad air and the battery drains in 15 min to 98% this is really strange

I'm currently at 78% usage is 4hours 27min standby is 11hours 47min

I've been on YouTube surfing the web Facebook email Instagram aka padgram listening to music while doing all this on speakers not headphones ive been using iMessage rarely use my own iPhone 5s at home now I mostly use my ipad I only use my iPhone when I'm out of the home

Does that usage above look good to any of you?