Apple Pencil 2 draining iPad Pro battery

I would LOVE a feature in iOS to turn off the charging of the pencil or only allow charging below a setup percentage. I want to be able to carry my pencil connected to the iPad, but NOT have it drain the battery all the time.

Yes. Turn the pencil around so it’s not in the charging position. It works better with an iPad case with the pencil holder. That way the pencil doesn’t need to be magnetized to the iPad.

I reported as suggested. I proposed a what I feel is a simple fix. Would require the following:

1. ipad Pro should automatically turn off wireless charging when pencil reaches 100% for a period of time (guessing 30 minutes would be ok).
2. iPad Pro should turn on wireless charging each time pencil is connected.

with those two it should never end up in charging for more than 30 minutes when not needed.

I understand that it is designed to charge off the iPad battery. However, I highly doubt it is designed to go through 25-30% battery power in just 8 hours. I have left my pencil connected to my 11” pro over night several times and each time my battery is drained. On one instance it drained it from 65% down to 23%. Seems like poor design for it to be so power hungry with no use.

My iPad was completely drained out overnight. Just found out about this issue. That’s crazy. Mine seems to be the most extreme case scenario. I wish mine was only 15-25% lol.. Now I have to charge my iPad up again before school. Had I known this was an issue I wouldn’t of gotten a case that enables you to keep your pencil attached to your iPad all the time. Sheesh!

Hi not tried this yet but what if you turn the pencil round so the flat side is not in the charging position??

There is no iOS 12.1.2 for iPads.

That update was released for iPhones ONLY.

Someone suggested if you simply slide the pencil over slightly enough on the iPad magnets, the Pencil will stop charging, but it will stay attached to the iPad.

Everyone that thinks that this is an issue/bug/defect should leave Apple feedback on this.

The only way to get Apple to, DIRECTLY, listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

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http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

The more users that post product feedback about any product issue, the faster Apple is made aware and starts working on a fix/solution for a future software update.

Also, you may want to phone contact Apple, directly in Cupertino, California, and calmly talk to an Apple customer service employee about this issue via the link below.

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Good Luck to All of You!

Hello,

I have exactly the same symptoms with the iPad 11 version 12.1.1.

I just had my pencil and my iPad replaced in Apple store (France).

The result is the same, battery loss if the pencil is charging during a standby period of about 10% for 8h standby.

The defect is not recognized by the Apple store (only notes) or Apple care.

Do you think this defect will be corrected?

thank you in advance for your feedback...

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You can let the Apple Pencil battery drain all the way down to between 10%-20% before having the need to charge it!

You do not have to keep it attached to the iPad Pro all of the time!

Another thing you can do/try to make sure the Pencil isn't charging on the iPad Pro all the time, is simply slide the Pencil over on those charging magnets until it stops charging, but still stays attached to the iPad.

Yes.

It will.

This is how the Apple Pencil is designed to always charge from the iPad.

The Pencil will constantly steal battery power from the iPad to keep the Apple Pencil always charged fully.

How else do you think the Apple Pencil always stays charged up.

The Apple Pencil is always going to use whatever amount of the the iPad’s battery power storage to charge itself.

This is exactly how Apple designed the Apple Pencil to work with the iPad/iPad Pro.

The iPad Pro and Apple Pencil are working just as designed.

I’m having the exact same issue. Before I had the Apple Pencil I didnt have the over night drain issue. I’m going to start doing the slide the pencil off the charger at night for now. Hopefully and update can fix this.

What version of iOS are you using?

My iPad still drains a lot when the Pencil is attached. If I remove the pencil, charge remains for much longer.

In my opinion, the problem has not been sorted.

Apple should put a feature on the next update to give u the option to turn it off when you don’t need it to save the battery