Apple Pencil 2 draining iPad Pro battery

Submit feedback to Apple, from my above link, so they can be aware and start working on this issue.

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.

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 the iPad’s battery draining, after all it is charging the pencil constantly. But a couple of weeks ago, I started noticing that after getting to 100%,, the pencil starts losing charge slowly. I left it untouched for a few days and it will get all the way down unless I dettach it and attach it again. Took it to the Apple store and they said it was very weird and it shouldn’t do that. They restored the settings and said if it keeps on doing that, I should restore from iTunes. of course it is still doing it, but I don’t see what restoring it from iTunes will do. They ordered a replacement pencil, but I’m wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

This is definitely an ongoing issue.

And you are right.

Doesn't make sense for both not to be charged up fully.

Go back a few pages ( page 2, I think ) and look for my Apple iPad feedback link reply post.

In the posting, I have included a link to call/reach Apple directly in Cupertino, California and you can talk with a customer service /technical supoort rep about this issue.

Best of Luck to You!

Took iPad Pro off charge Monday morning. Turned Bluetooth off. Left Apple Pencil 2 attached to case.

It is now Thursday night. I have had 3h screen on time. My iPad is at 71% battery.

Turned on Bluetooth to check battery level in Pencil. 90%.

So clearly, in standby mode, the Pencil does not need to draw huge amounts of battery from the iPad. 10% over 4 days is nothing and should not have any perceivable impact on iPad Pro battery life.

There is a bug here that is causing the Pencil to constantly communicate over Bluetooth even when it is docked to the side of the iPad Pro, and this is chewing up a lot of power.

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.

Can confirm this morning that i have noticed the firmware version now ends 0060. And battery is holding very well!

Same problem here!

Last night I made a test... iPad in standby without my pencil attached.

From 17.00 to 10.00: iPad 100% ---> 94%, Pencil 100% ---> 95%.

Previous nights, the iPad loose about 15-20%!

So, i think this is a bug!

I’m noticing the battery drain in your screenshot is consistent with what I see on my own iPad Pro as far as the time of day it happens. It’s usually between 3 and 6 AM where I see the most dramatic drain.

I am having the exact same issue, I have the pencil connected to my iPad overnight while the iPad is charging, I know the pencil is at 100% but it’s where I keep it now, but hen I come back to it the next day and the pencil has drained to about 75%, should I try getting it replaced you think?

Please keep updating this thread if you see this being a consistent behavior in the beta. I have hard rebooted my iPad before and had the problem go away and seem like it was not happening anymore, and then it has always eventually started again.

That all sounds great... other than the fact that if I leave my ipad idle for a few days.. say.. over the weekend.. with my pencil attached, the pencil drains to 0%.

So, I have the iPad on but "alseep" in my bag with the Pencil attached as it was meant to be, and the pencil drains power from the ipad while simultaneously loosing battery faster than it would if I just kept it unattached in a pocket somewhere in the bag.

That sounds like a problem to me. Nothing more annoying than grabbing the iPad for a meeting Monday morning just to have the pencil at 0% charge despite the fact that it was attached to the only thing that can charge it.. since Friday afternoon.

Makes no sense at all.

Probably just a coincidence as I’ve owned an 11” pro for a while without the pencil my wife bought an 11” pro with pencil yesterday and it was fully charged last night and now on 42% with no use just the pencil attached on latest firmware