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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

iPad Feedback

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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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.

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

I know the apple pencil is meant to charge from the iPad. However what is unclear is if it should be such a large drain even in standby. If it is indeed normal it would be nice for Apple to just say don't keep apple pencil on ipad during overnight standby to avoid heavy battery drain.

I’m noticing that if I have my Apple Pencil 2 attached to my iPad Pro for a while without using it, the Pencil starts discharging a little every day—maybe about 5% per day. For a while the iPad will continue topping it off, but then it stops. The Pencil shows as still attached and connected, just not charging. This will drain my iPad’s battery anywhere from 10-20% every 24 hours or so unless I remember to detach/attach the Pencil now and then to start the charge process over again.

I’m not really sure what to do about it. I’ve had the Pencil replaced thinking it was a faulty Pencil. I’m not going into the store again to get the iPad replaced and then run into the same thing. I feel like this is a software issue, as I’ve only been noticing it since 12.1.2.