I notice it draining faster. My guess is that since its “natural” resting position is charging atop the iPad Apple reduced the size of the battery. Not a big deal for me.
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Apple Pencil 2 Battery Life
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That’s my problem, I am constantly using the pencil. And I’ve discovered the pencil needs to be connected because the battery is seemingly pretty small.
The Apple Pencil battery drains faster than a bladder after 6 beers.
It’s terrible. It’s so bad to the point of being unsable.
I had it sitting on the desk and in a span of an hour without using it, it lost 8%.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro stylus has Apple handily beat here: that stylus battery lasts weeks.
It’s terrible. It’s so bad to the point of being unsable.
I had it sitting on the desk and in a span of an hour without using it, it lost 8%.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro stylus has Apple handily beat here: that stylus battery lasts weeks.
Same I disconnected mine from the side of my iPad was at 100% sat it on my desk came back like 40 mins later and connected and it was down to 93%
Probably this is due to what I said here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-pencil-2-battery-life.2153502/page-2#post-26785772
1st gen Pencil = does not try to pair or mantain bluetooth connection 24/7
2nd gen Pencil = works just like the Airpods
Try leaving the Airpods:
a) Unpaired and forget them from ALL your devices
b) Not being used (not in your ears)
c) All nearby devices with bluetooth turned off
And leave the Airpods outside of their charger case. You'll see that in the next hours the battery will go down for the sole reason of being... outside the charger case.
Apple already explained this is due to:
This is an engineering tradeoff. If we were to stop all paging and advertising while the buds are sitting idle on your desk, any time you picked them up and placed them in your ear, we’d take a few seconds to connect. We prioritize the more often seen user situation in which the user leaves the buds out only when they intend to use them relatively soon after.
What happens with this 2nd gen Pencil is probably the same, but the difference here is that the battery lasts more when compared to the Airpods.
This was one of the reasons I sold these headphones. Didn't like the idea of always leaving them inside the charger case, when I prefered to put them next to me, pick them up and resume listening.
A few users reported the Airpods stopped broadcasting only when they were put inside the charger case.
With this 2nd gen Pencil Apple assumes you are using a little and then recharging again right after. This is very stupid since I am accustomed to keep my 1st gen Pencil inside my drawer and weeks later I recharge the battery when it's needed. And if I pair them again the battery is not totally drained, after several days.
With this 2nd gen Pencil there's always a battery drain, according to the posts here. That's why I suggested the use of an EMF meter to see if there's a signal being broadcast 24/7. With the old Pencil this only occurs when a BT connection is established.
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That’s odd, mine hasn’t been attached to my iPad for a couple of days, it’s been lying on my desk.
Just picked it up to do some drawing, checked the battery first in case I needed a top-up and it was at 92%.
Wonder why there’s such a large variation. I’d definitely be curious to find out.
Incidentally, I didn’t have Bluetooth or anything disconnected as I’ve been using it.
Totally bizarre. My pencil dropped from 95% to 80% overnight, just lying on a desk, in a different room to my iPad. Obviously this problem is not occurring with every latest Gen pencil, which makes me less inclined to believe that the fix would be in a Firmware update.
I find it very odd too. The results really shouldn’t be so different between devices. I’ll be keeping an eye on both this thread and my Pencil battery over the next few days.
Just as an update, although it's only been 5 hours or so since my first post about battery life, I've done a couple of hours or so of drawing and 3 hours or so of the Pencil lying on my desk.
My battery right now is at 82%, which is only a 10% drop. Seriously, weirdly different than what some people are experiencing. Which does nothing except pique my curiosity more.
My firmware, as I'm guessing everyones will be, is 0128.0084.0444.0052.
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I'm glad it's not a defect or hardware issue. I can live with the short battery life when separated from the iPad in exchange for an easy charging method. I mean I'm never in a situation where I simply must take a note right away. I can spend five minutes on twitter or this forum while it charges quickly to 80% and it seems to hold up fine under use which is where battery life would be most important.
Story time!
Do you know the Tragedy of iPad The First Gen? It didn't have a camera and the common response was frustration with Apple for it not having a camera. The iPad 2 introduced a camera to the lineup and the common response was "Don't take a pic with your iPad you look stupid!"
We've had calls for a quick and easy method of charging for two years and now that it's here it seems like people still aren't happy.
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Story time!
Do you know the Tragedy of iPad The First Gen? It didn't have a camera and the common response was frustration with Apple for it not having a camera. The iPad 2 introduced a camera to the lineup and the common response was "Don't take a pic with your iPad you look stupid!"
We've had calls for a quick and easy method of charging for two years and now that it's here it seems like people still aren't happy.
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Maybe it discharges to a certain point then actually goes to sleep. They could adjust that interval with a firmware update. They are collecting usage stats like mad right now probably.
EEEXXXXACCTLY lol but we still must have our....Come now, don't you know we're never happy
...dare I say it....
...I'm gonna...
...BATTERYGATE!!!!
Are you on the iOS 12 beta? I don't suspect that's the issue but maybe we should start filing reports on it just so they are aware we are aware of the battery drain.
I'm on iOS 12.1. I played Fortnite with it unattached for about an hour and just popped it back on and it's at 96%. So it's draining, but not as dramatically as some of the others are seeing.
I am in IOS 12.1. Pencil is now at 67%, have used it for maybe 5 to 10 minutes today. Bluetooth off until I checked levels just now.
This is the result after (almost) 48 hours.OK, I decided to conduct a test of my own:
1st gen Pencil;
iOS 12.1
IPP 10.5 (256 GB, wifi+cell)
This video shows the Pencil is 100% charged. And that I unpaired it, and after that disabled bluetooth for good.
I'll keep BT disabled this way for the next 48 hours. After that I'll plug the Pencil again and see how much battery is left.
Then you'll all be able to compare this with your new Pencil. 48 hrs from now I'll post the results.
I measured a few minutes ago.
Battery was down to 79%. Which means if I unpair (forgetting) and disable bluetooth 100% (completely) in iOS settings the 1st gen Pencil will waste 21% while in my drawer without any use. Or 10% each day.
Now compare this result with yours... and you'll see which Pencil is draining more battery.
Then it's OK... my Pencil uses the serial number FQ9RF4V7GWTJ and was bought 2 or 3 years ago. I rarely use it, perhaps 2, 3 times in a week, and not for hours. Also I must add that recharging is very quickly, once I caught the 79%, a few seconds later it was 82 if I am not mistaken. And I always recharge using the lightning cable, instead of the IPP 10.5.
In two days,having used my pencil to write exactly one sentence as a test, then turning off Bluetooth on Ipad, just checked and pencil battery has drained 40%.
Last night I charged my old Pencil for my 9.7” iPad fully. Have not checked yet what, if any drain has occurred there. Will post back later.
Edit: old Pencil this morning, with Bluetooth turned off on 9.7” iPad, is still at 100%.
Last night I charged my old Pencil for my 9.7” iPad fully. Have not checked yet what, if any drain has occurred there. Will post back later.
Edit: old Pencil this morning, with Bluetooth turned off on 9.7” iPad, is still at 100%.
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