Apple Pencil 2 draining iPad Pro battery

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.

Hi,

I did not notice the discharge part of the IPad. However, I have been asking myself a similaire qestion. The one about the Pencil 2 battery lifespan. As we know keeping the device on the charger while it’s over 80% decreases the lifespan of the battery over time. I’ve decided to leave the pencil on the table next to the iPad - not clipped to the iPad just in case. I am sure that engineers working on this thought about this aspect however I am not sure what decision have been made regarding this. As earlier the battery quality decreases the higher the chance it will be replaced by the user. I would welcome the option to disable the charging manually.

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

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 have the same issue. If this is "normal” behavior then I think Apple should disclose it, I saw many reviews and none informed about the standby drainage.

iPad standby battery was amazing, let's hope this problem can be resolved with a firmware update.

The amount of drain happening here (in my experience) is far beyond a few percent a night. If it were just 4 or 5 percent due to topping off the Pencil now and then, I’d be totally fine with that. But it’s anywhere from 15 to 20 percent per 12 hours of standby, and that’s just plain unacceptable. There is no way that much juice is needed to keep the Pencil topped off or at least reasonably charged. Apple needs to fix this ASAP. I’m really happy with my new iPad Pro so far, and I’m really happy with the Apple Pencil 2 as well. I’m just not happy with the way this charging solution is working.

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

I’ve also had this problem and I haven’t found a way to stop it from happening.

Lithium -ion batteries in any mobile device, especially the tiny battery in the Apple Pencil WILL still drain down on their own.

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