2018 iPad Pro battery drain problem

Ok everyone. Thought i would weight in again after using the iPad for a months.

Initially i thought i needed to disable Bluetooth to stop the battery drain overnight. I dont. I find the easiest way is to leave the pencil un-attached when I’m not using the iPad, it charges so fast anyway it doesn’t seem to matter to much to my workflow. I just attach it to the charge slot when I’m using the iPad but not using the pencil and it charges. Problem solved. I get zero drain overnight. I have even re-enabled background app refresh for a bunch of apps, no i ssues.

So while not perfect, having the pencil not attached works for me. Hoping to see an update address this issue with the pencil though.

For all you other poor suckers getting drain regardless of pencil/BT i feel your pain.

Take look into screen time. Settings, Screen Time. Click the screen time and it will show

a graph that shows 12 AM 6 AM 12 PM etc.

The colored bars show when apps where used. You might see a blue, light blue, orange for example.

(This colors refers to social networking, reading+reference, entertainment.) Press one of them that might show up when you actually weren't using iPad to reveal actual time frame. Pressing a bar will bring up a green window showing another time frame, then look at apps and websites to see what is using your iPad at that time, if anything.

Also, if you think is something seriously wrong with your iPad, I suggest you bring to the Genius Bar or contact Apple Support.

https://getsupport.apple.com/?caller=sm

They can walk you through steps via phone or if you bring it in. You're still under warranty.

Hopefully you are using the latest iOS.

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curious: have you ever tried setting up iPad as NEW. (yes, new, as in full restore, set up as new- which would give you fresh copy of iOS in case the copy you have is the problem?)

I suggest at night when you are not using Apple Pencil: At night when you are not using pencil, turn BT off.

My pencil was draining to 0% leaving it on iPad with BT all night.

Now I turn BT off at night, and in morning, iPad and Pencil only lost 1% battery.

OK all, thought i would report back since trying the disable Bluetooth option.

Well it has fixed the problem completely. I dont need to leave the pencil detached from the iPad, just disable Bluetooth completely.

This is VERY frustrating, because you dont always remember to do this every time you finish using the pencil, in fact it actuallly makes me use the pencil less.

My battery drain seemed to be at a certain regular interval, so this seems like something apple could fix via a software update. So please Apple! Get your **** together.

pchamp2k1-

are you running latest iOS ?

If is connected to wifi, make sure "ask to join networks" is off.

check

settings- display+brightness and make sure that is set to something other then "never"

also making sure that your case closes tightly and iPad is actually going to sleep.

iPads do lose some battery when not using. My iPad Pro 3 gen. varies between 1% to about 8% without being use.

Home and Lock screen can use battery when in standby if is pushing notifications for example.

here is an article about maximize battery life. Some people prefer to put to airplane mode.

https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/

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I just saw that I wrote I turn off Wifi..I mean I turn BlueTooth off, I leave Wifi on all the time. I have only bluetooth when using Apple Pencil.

With pencil not attached and blue tooth on, I think the pencil is still getting signal from bluetooth.

See here: you might not want to keep bluetooth and pencil near each other - if not using pencil, turn blue tooth off.

Re: Apple Pencil battery drain even if not used

I'm glad things are working better for you now.

Me too. After having the previous version of the iPad Pro 10.5" that never noticeably drained battery and lasted for many hours while using and many days while idle, the new 2018 iPad Pro 11" drains way too fast. I noticed on my Battery tab on the Settings app that I was leaving Mail open all the time, and that Mail would check for new messages every few minutes, and that the Battery tab was saying my Mail app was using the vast majority of my battery cycle (no less than 58%, and up to 95%). So I have now resorted to closing the Mail app every time I use it and I will test to see if this increases battery life substantially. I will also try turning off Bluetooth, although this absolutely should not be the case... all of us should be able to leave WIFi on, Bluetooth on, and all other baseline settings on and still not have a massive battery dump every time we open the cover. Stopping Mail from continuously checking I can see, but Bluetooth? Anyone else checked to see if Mail is part or most of the culprit?

Check settings- display & brightness - autolock

is it set to “never”? If so, change it to something other than the “ never” .

That’s good.

Have you tried turn off Bluetooth and detach pencil?

then restart.

i have same iPad, I don’t keep pencil attached when not using.

Same here, had it fully charged, no problems with battery until I bought the pencil and left it attached overnight on the iPad, in the morning the iPad had 7% battery left and used it like 20min before it turned off because a complete battery drain.

I have had the new iPad Pro since it came out I do not have the pencil. Main drains may be 5% to 10% a day I went on a road trip I put my iPad Pro in my suitcase on standby when I took it out it was burning hot and it went through 95% of the battery. There is definitely a flaw in the new iPad Pro I have the old iPad Pro sitting right next to me in an iPad Air sitting across from me and those have no drainage problems there is a process running on the new iPad And I’m very disappointed in all of apples latest products

Sorry for the late reply, but yes.

Latest iOS, wifi off,

display+brightness at 40% (doesn't really matter causes the device is not in use anyways) and auto-lock at 1 minute,

have the official Apple Folio Case and is def. locked,

ALL push notifications off,

ALL background app refresh off,

Bluetooth off, Cellular off.

There is something wrong with these new iPads Pros.

I have the same problem with my iPad Pro 2018 11inch LTE 256Gb. Battery drain very notable. My old iPad Air 2 too barely has battery drain. The case use: Airplane mode, no wifi, no bluetooth and no pencil connected. Old Air2 no drain at all. iPad Pro 2018 battery drain -3-4% per 24 hours of Standby!!! Terrible. After a week of Standby I had to charge my boy! Hate this. I never charged my old Air2 even after 3 week of stand by who barely dropped 1-2% a month. P.S. From the very beggining I started to use my iPad Pro 2018 like a new and did not restore a copy of the old Air2 to prevent all possible bad issues to come to the new device.

Hi everyone,

I too have a new iPad Pro. I get 10% battery drain overnight EVERY night. I have read just about every general battery drain article online to no avail. The only thing I haven’t tried is the Bluetooth thing. I will give that a go and see what happens.

The only thing that makes me wonder is this battery drain happens every night around the same time slot. Eg, 3am, or 6am. I can see a big dip on the battery graph, but no apps are listed.

I have disabled all background refresh and turned off iCloud sync for almost everything. Have a look at the attached picture - this is really frustrating because 4 nights and that’s half your battery gone from doing nothing.

I have some other older iPads running the same OS (Latest) and they dont drop any battery in standby.. so definitely something with the new hardware and firmware.