iPad pro 9.7 battery

Same issue here. iPad Pro 9.7 Celluar

I have identified the Microsoft OneNote App has a major impact on battery life.

I can see the battery draining when the OneNote App is active, but also when in background. Now I close the OneNote App when I don't use it - especially overnight.

My iPad 9.7 worked perfectly. Recently, I used it as normal on a lazy Sunday, fell asleep and let the battery drain to 0%. The next morning I woke up, plugged it into my Apple iPad charger, dead iPad battery charging screen popped up, went to work. I came home at the end of the day and the iPad had not charged at all. I proceeded to try multiple wall outlets and iPad chargers, nothing, until eventually the charging screen would not appear and it was completely dead. Could not perform a hard restart, the Genius Bar couldn't do anything and said my only option was to buy a replacement unit at a "discounted rate." I was furious, it was barely a year old (10 days out of AppleCare coverage). However I talked to Apple support through their website and they offered me a free repair. Obviously turns out the Apple Store I went to had no value for their customers. So all is good right? Kind of... It appears that they could not repair my iPad so they are sending me a replacement. Which is fine, but I am concerned it could happen again. I use it (a lot), it had no damage and one day, poof, gone. I wish I could find out what the problem was from Apple. At this point I imagine once this unit hits 1 year it will also self destruct. Disappointing considering my iPad 3rd generation last me from it's launch date until the iPad Pro 9.7 launch date.

Bought my large screen iPad Pro in Nov. 2015.

Original battery is still going strong and I completely discharge it once a month, then charge it back up to 100%.

I don't let it stay drained for too long past 0%, though.

I have a similar battery drain when I leave my smartkeyboard connected to the iPad pro and seems to drain between 30-50% overnight. Sent it back to apple and they confirmed that there is no problem with the battery but clearly there is a problem with the smart keyboard. Without the keyboard attached, battery drain is between 5-10%. This is frustrating as I now have to keep my keyboard separated and attach only when I need to use it!

I know this is old... but I have been plagued by exactly the same issue since I bought my iPad Pro 9” one year ago. And I also have an iPad Air 1st generation that always had great battery life AND cellular data as well and always on. I got a new iPad Pro 10” and hope I can use the same solution, to turn off celular data when not using it, to save battery. Or maybe this has been fixed in the new Pro 10” model.. any chance anyone here did this migration as well? I will only get my new Pro 10” in two weeks so I still don’t know how it will perform from a battery perspective but the 9” was always a big disappointmen.

thanks a lot. I tough I was insane about this issue... seems it is a common problem! :-)

Leonardo

I don't believe that Apple has published battery life on standby for the iPad Pro, however, assuming that overnight is ~8 hours then on a linear basis you'd get ~80 hrs on standby which would probably be in the right ball park. Of course it will depend in what state you left your iPad overnight and what it got up to ;-) If it updated a whole bunch of sizeable game apps overnight in background the impact would be different to receiving a few e-mails.

Hope this helps.

I am noticing a similar high battery drain on my new iPad pro 9.7. During overnights, the battery drains about 10% while the battery drain on my iPad Air is only about 1-2%. The setup of the iPad pro is a recovered back-up of the iPad Air, so same apps, same settings, … on both devices, both are running on iOS 9.3.1., both devices wifi + cellular, both devices logged into the same mobile network.

When I checked the battery status in the settings menu, the iPad pro 9.7 was showing to be in usage nearly all the time and had a least only a few minutes standby-time, while the iPad Air was showing at least nearly all the time being in standby. Both devices had been untouched overnight. I couldn’t figure out any change in the apps activity times, so I guess there might be some background-process by iOS, which doesn’t allow the iPad pro to go to standby properly.

After some trials I finally figured out, that turning of the mobile data on the iPad stopped the mysterious background process and brought the usage time and battery drain during overnights down to at least the same levels the iPad Air is showing. The WIFI-connection was still active and seems to have no Impact to this.

Beside of this mysterious standby drain, the battery drain during usage of the iPad pro seems to be on a normal level.

At this point I would suggest the root-cause being iOS having some issues with the mobile-network unit or even maybe the new built-in appleSIM.

Anybody here who is faced with the same issue? Anyone with suggestions to fix this? I’d love to hear some other comments on this. Thanks!

I am also experiencing a larger battery drain on iPad Pro 9.7 vs my old iPad Air. My settings mirror the old iPad Air as well.

I have the cellular/wifi version for both.

I have experienced similar drains on my new iPad Pro 9.7 compared to my iPad Air (1st generation) and have not found a solution. I believe they are similarly configured except for the Smart Keyboard. When using, it seems the battery life is similar but when not using it drains much more than the iPad Air ever did. I like the new device, love the sound and display, but am perplexed by the battery life which does not seem to be addressed by Apple or any of the sites like MacRumors. Since others are having this problems, I do not think I have a defective battery, which is something of a relief.

Hi there,

I have experienced similar battery drain, and switching off mobile data did bring the battery drain levels back to par with the earlier iPad models.

I think this may be a software related issue re: mobile data settings, as you have suspected.

I found just switching off the data roaming made a positive difference. Enough to know without measuring it.

For what it's worth, I left mobile data on whole of last night, and when I looked at it this morning, battery drain was only 5-7%, compared to over 30-40% earlier.

No change to my use of the iPad. The only thing which I did was to turn off the mobile data for a couple of nights, and then turn it on the next day when I woke up.

Maybe this has something to do with how the software cycles between the mobile data settings, or when you reset the mobile data switch, it clears up the data connection somehow, or stops the iPad from constantly "searching" for mobile data, and this sorts out the battery drain issue.

Hope this helps.

My iPad Pro 9.7 inch has the same battery drain issue. Cellular data is not turned on because I don't have any plan yet. I have been using iPad for the last 5 hours but the percentage of battery is already 23%. I hope this is a software issue that can easily be fixed.

I looked up a few battery saving tips and i shut off a lot of background app refresh such as Facebook, twitter, etc. since i get all my notifications either on my iPhone, apple watch, or macbook pro all of which I'm on more than the iPad which is mainly used for school or being away from the laptop. I did too notice the huge battery drain even while in use using microsoft notes and other apps that were kept consistently open for a certain period of time. Don't know if shutting off background app refresh helps but i also shut off my wireless service(verizon) and let you guys know if it helps. The iPad is mainly in wifi majority of the time.

It seems soft reset worked to stop excessive battery drain. At least for now anyway. I connected iPad Pro with the charging cable, pressed and hold the power button and the home button simultaneously for 10 seconds or so, and let it charge until 100%. So far it is 90% with over 2 hours of watching YouTube, listening to Podcast, and web browsing while Bluetooth headset is connected. My iPad is on wi-if network and no celluler is off. Hope this fixed the problem.