Ipad pro battery life?

I have the same problem. my ipad pro 12.9 wifi has insanely drain baterry even close the screen the baterry drop from 100 to 10 percent in 6 hrs.

I found. this community is only complaint space for problematic apple product. and has no useful respond from apple any more

I am pretty much bedridden so I use my ipad attached to a holder and plugged into the charger all the time. Am I damaging the battery by charging even when it’s on full charge? Is there overcharge protection for the battery? I have 128gig ipad pro 9.7 No attached keyboard.

You are NOT damaging the battery by leaving it plugged in, but if you are having a battery issue, I would have someone take your iPad to a “local” Apple Store for diagnosis and price for a possible repair/replacement.

The actual charging circuitry is inside of an iDevice that controls the charging.

There is an internal shutoff for charging once an iDevice reaches 100% charge.

From the iPad Pro Technical Specs

All models

• Built-in 38.5-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
• Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi‑Fi, watching video or listening to music
• Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system

Wi‑Fi + Cellular model

Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using a mobile data network

Seems a little high. I have been using mine since I picked it up on the 11th. I have not charged and still have 56%.

It is 128 GB wifi only too.

Sometimes it take a few charge/discharge cycles to get accurate battery life and indication.

I have only had my iPad up for over a day and I managed to get almost 9 hours from a full charge just using it with both WiFi and Bluetooth both active.

I have, purposely, left all of the iOS eye candy off to try and get even battery daily life out of the battery.

Also, the iPad Pro is MUCH SNAPPIER with all of the iOS motion and animated effects reduced.

iPad Pro has very short battery life. I got 5 hours today from a fully charged iPad Pro watching NFL Sunday ticket. Turned the iPad Pro on at 10AM and it was shutting down on low battery a 2:30PM.

5.5 hours of WiFi.

This is so far short of the 9-10 advertised that I wonder if we early adopters have a class action case for a refund.

I haven't tried streaming video all day on the Pro.

I spent my time with the Pro using my new drawing tablet and testing out my favorite drawing apps, I keep a browser active for responding to posts here and other Internet activities like posting product reviews. Plus, I spend some occassional time streaming/watching videos on Vimeo and YouTube.

Plus, like I stated, I turn off all of the resource intense (read as battery sucking) iOS eye candy and anything that is running in background, like background App Refresh and only try to run 4-5 apps or so leaving them to stay active In the background to alternate between using the App Switcher.

My wife is NOTORIOUS for leaving 8-12 unused apps always, constantly running in the background for prolonged lengths of time and she is always asking me why her iPad is slowing down over time.

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Try it and you will find that iPad Pro cannot sustain the 9-10 hours of Wifi streaming as advertised.

"Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi‑Fi, watching video"

It is 5.5 hour battery in actual use as advertised. That is substantial difference. One significant enough to require Apple to compensate buyers.

To use the iPad Pro as advertised, as standalone for 9-10 hours, I will need an auxiliary battery pack from Mophie. $150.00 at least.

Purchase of a device needed to make iPad Pro meet its advertised specs and the inconvenience of not getting the device I paid for? $300 from Apple would seem to be what a class action will produce.

I have not measured the metrics closely, but even with casual use I am falling well short of the 10 hour mark.

Haven't seen any 3rd party test metrics on the iPad Pro. Just took Apple at their word on the battery life. How could Apple miss this and miss by so much?

I wonder if it is the keyboard that is sucking the juice? I was watching the game, not using the keyboard at all but maybe Apple's new keyboard power port has a flaw that a software upgrade can fix?

Hope so.

You have the Apple keyboard? I am using the Logitech Create.

LogiTech Create also.

Next week I'll stream NFL Sunday Ticket with the iPro out of the keyboard.

But the keyboard has no battery it just takes power when it needs it. In this case just sitting there. Never used the keyboard. Turned the volume up or down (commercials) via the touch screen.

Anyone see any 3rd party batter metrics on the iPro?

Found ArsTechnica test and they got 8 hours of web browsing. So watching streaming video for 5.5 is probably what that translates to. Question is whether that puts Apple into false advertising claim of "10 hours of Wifi, watching video". Depends on how that comma gets interpreted. Video over Wifi or video stored on the iPro.

ArsTechnia doesn't mention the keyboard at all. Probably have to wait for Apple's keyboard to get released. They do note that Apple could have used speaker space for more battery and did not. Likely iPro 2 will use that for battery as Apple is already off at least 20% on the batter life and possibly 50%.

I don't have ant external keyboard connected.

I have gotten very used to using the onboard software keyboard on iPads.

I wonder if this is why I am getting better battery life than everyone else. Even with all of the visual eye candy turned off.