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iPad Pro 2020 iPad Pro 12.9 inch ISSUES. Any one else?!
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Yes, do a hard reset to see if it improves. Below is what I got and you should get something close to it.
Give us an update later on to see if this really made a difference that you’re happy with
Thank you. I’m going to just HARD reset today.
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Awesome. Did you set up from new or an older backup?
On my iPhone X since upgrading to 13.4 I have been having this issue, still trying to sus it out.
Noticed it’s improved considerably by turning off background refresh ?♂️ how did I forget that! Its made such a difference!
A lot of focus on the battery life here, but not on the connectivity / radio issues mentioned in the initial post.
I found the description of the behavior of the radios eerily similar to the iPhone XS Max Cellular + WiFi issues that plagued a large batch (or multiple batches) of that device. The issue was never resolved and was ultimately buried by Apple, but those unfortunate enough to be impacted will never forget that debacle. It was almost certainly a hardware defect, which served to further degrade reception well beyond the already marginal baseline owing to the poorly designed gen 1 2x2 antennas.
If you continue to have consistent connectivity issues on your ipad unit as described, and struggle to find others experiencing the same, then it’s entirely plausible that you have an instance of defective hardware. It can and does happen occasionally, on any given device.
I don’t know what country you are in, and whether or not you purchased it directly from Apple - but if it were me, here in the USA, I would just jump on apple.com, login, and initiate a return for refund within the 14day period, print the instant free shipping label they provide, and drop it off at UPS (or have UPS come by and pick it up).
You can buy a new one and start over with a clean slate. No downside really. To my taste that beats hoping that Apple will put things right, potentially months from now , when you eventually are able to go in to see a Genius. And certainly in the case of the XS-Max, the folks who chose that “path of hope” all got badly burned..
Edit: I forgot to point out that the radio issue and battery life can be related. Radios that are desperately running through all their baseband code, adjusting their band, power levels, and so on , in order to find you a good signal/connection, or that are switching back and forth between cellular/WiFi , etc , tend to burn a ton of power!
I found the description of the behavior of the radios eerily similar to the iPhone XS Max Cellular + WiFi issues that plagued a large batch (or multiple batches) of that device. The issue was never resolved and was ultimately buried by Apple, but those unfortunate enough to be impacted will never forget that debacle. It was almost certainly a hardware defect, which served to further degrade reception well beyond the already marginal baseline owing to the poorly designed gen 1 2x2 antennas.
If you continue to have consistent connectivity issues on your ipad unit as described, and struggle to find others experiencing the same, then it’s entirely plausible that you have an instance of defective hardware. It can and does happen occasionally, on any given device.
I don’t know what country you are in, and whether or not you purchased it directly from Apple - but if it were me, here in the USA, I would just jump on apple.com, login, and initiate a return for refund within the 14day period, print the instant free shipping label they provide, and drop it off at UPS (or have UPS come by and pick it up).
You can buy a new one and start over with a clean slate. No downside really. To my taste that beats hoping that Apple will put things right, potentially months from now , when you eventually are able to go in to see a Genius. And certainly in the case of the XS-Max, the folks who chose that “path of hope” all got badly burned..
Edit: I forgot to point out that the radio issue and battery life can be related. Radios that are desperately running through all their baseband code, adjusting their band, power levels, and so on , in order to find you a good signal/connection, or that are switching back and forth between cellular/WiFi , etc , tend to burn a ton of power!
Thanks for that. I suspect it actually has more to do with the device (iPad Pro) in my case not being able to switch between the same connection one being 5G and other being standard. Ive also not had that issue by just focusing on one WiFi network at home. The battery drain has improved recently after I turned off background refresh and a few privacy / location settings. I still feel the iPad Pro drains battery quicker than I was expecting but I’m going to give it another few days before I decide what to do.
Thanks for the help.
So the hard reset didn’t do much... but then I removed background refresh and a few location based unnecessary options in settings and it has improved a great deal. Still monitoring it. I think it’ll make it around 10 hours but I’ll keep you posted.
Great to hear! I’d love to know what app(s) were causing that drainage. Sounds like your setting changes got to the root of it, but I suspect there’s particular apps that made use of those given settings, and those are the ones that created the problem.
Lots of Microsoft apps like teams and one cloud. It started to get worse again.
Cue the conspiracy theories
Imagine if Microsoft purposefully built energy-draining "features" into their iOS apps...
I wouldn’t put it past them. I did find one more culprit in Location services which I’ve turned off and noticed improved battery life for now... Privacy > Location Services >System services > System customization.
