A 4th-gen iPad Pro would not qualify, way too new.
It’s probably not battery health related, either usage or settings is the culprit.
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iPad Pro 2020 iPad Pro users: Still happy?
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It’s probably not battery health related, either usage or settings is the culprit.
I know that isn’t exactly the question, but I can say I’m still using my 12.9” iPP 2018 64 gb for the same kind of activity that you want to do plus video editing (short full hd videos of my surgeries) and I haven’t got any kind of problems.
I will do - it’ll get a second life as my daughters (She’s using my original iPad Pro 10.9 I think!)
Not necessarily. While normal ("healthy") cycles would unlikely wear battery below 80% according to Apple standards (which is the threshold to quality) in a couple of years, you can "destroy" a battery in a year or less with "unhealthy" usage. Most typical is leaving the iPad dead for days or weeks. This can even kill some cells and cause sudden drops in battery remaining while using the device.
You can use a free software called iMazing (Mac or PC). While it does not match Apple battery check, if is below 70% you could have a good chance of battery health being below 80% for Apple (in order to qualify for battery service)
Yeah, but OP said they’re charging daily. Standard usage won’t kill a battery that quickly, especially not an iPad one.
Yeah it's very unlikely to go below 80% (by Apple standards) in 2 years without extreme conditions like leaving the iPad dead for prolongued periods. And in my experience indeed people who claim that battery life if much shorter than it was still have a battery above 80% (which is not even true 80% since a new battery actually starts at around 106%) but have shorter stand-by times due to either iPadOS updates or backgroud apps. But knowing the reported iMazing battery health would allow to have an idea of where the iPad is now...
Standby time being abhorrent doesn’t even require updates, original version devices have had poor standby time since iPadOS 13, unfortunately. My Air 5 on iPadOS 15 isn’t great, and it’s the latest device on its original iOS version.
I guess it gives some information but I think it’s less relevant than it’s given credit for. The device should be a great buy today, imo.
Remembered there was a way by looking in the most recent analytics file. It says 89%, I’m guessing it’s just heavily used. No chance it ever gets left, in an uncharged state!
Yes, since iPadOS Find My is reported as the culprit for poor standby (even if you have disabled location and every other find my service). If that's the only cause or if there are other non reported causes, only Apple knows. The only thing that seems to work in improving standby dramatically is disconnecting from the Internet.
At 89% it will take several years before it's at a level where it qualifies for battery service. And battery life is probably not very different from what it was when new. It's just that usage may have changed.
I’ve tried everything, My Air 5 on iPadOS 15 is far worse than my 9.7-inch iPad Pro on iOS 12, a device with three major updates and 6 years older. On Airplane Mode it’s still poor.
OP here! Bowed out so as not to interrupt the ways in which this conversation had evolved, but, I did in fact end up with an Apple refurb 2021 11" M1 Pro. Is it actually better than a 2020? Probably, but as others pointed out, the price delta was not really enough to worry about and now I have an iPad that'll probably have years of support still.
If the 4th-gen is a good buy, the 5th-gen is an even better buy. Congratulations, enjoy it!
So far it runs fine and I haven't noticed any excessive battery drainage. I'd say it's the same as before.
There's very very slight lags some times, but really only very rarely, in some situations. In 99% of the time, I don't notice any difference to iOS 14. It's still super-duper fast. As if I had never updates. That makes me happy, because this device is from 2018. So it's 5 years old and still running like new (I'd be pissed if it wasn't).
One thing I noticed however, is that some Safari pages don't load well. It looks as if I had slow internet, but a fix is to close the Safari window and re-open it and it will instantly load the page. My internet connection is fine and I also don't think it's a lag, it's rather a glitch in the OS I believe. I had this with an earlier OS as well. I just noticed in fact that it just have been fixed with an older update at some point. Hope this here will be fixed too.
And writing this entire block of text, the keyboard lagged just once, super super shortly, barely noticeable. Otherwise, everything is still ultra smooth and fast.