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Zapdoc

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Just bought a lovely 2TB model from Amazon renewed at 2/3 of new price. No issues with it that I can see but wan5ed t9 check battery health not percentage at any one time. It’s not there unlike in m6 iPhone I can see it. How do I do this pleas ?
 

Chaparral02

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I checked my iPads battery health by using an app on a windows 10 or 11 PC
Do you have a Mac or windows computer ?
 

Davidalan

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Go the App Store on your iPad and in the search bar enter “battery battery health on iPad”. Take a look.
 

Zapdoc

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Just bought a lovely 2TB model from Amazon renewed at 2/3 of new price. No issues with it that I can see but wan5ed t9 check battery health not percentage at any one time. It’s not there unlike in m6 iPhone I can see it. How do I do this pleas ?
Sorry poor typing on my part. Still getting used to the typing on ipad
 

Zapdoc

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Go the App Store on your iPad and in the search bar enter “battery battery health on iPad”. Take a look.
Tried several of the apps there but they just gave current percentages which I can see in settings ….battery on my ipad
 

Chaparral02

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Yes a MacBook air
Think i used this iMazing app on my windows computer to check my ipads battery health,
There a Mac version of this app as well

 
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Zapdoc

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As you have a MacBook Air you can use coconut battery to show battery health for the iPad.
Thanks I have heard of Coconut but not the imaging one. I,lol try it didn’t realise you
needed to use a Mac computer to use it as I thought i5 would be on the ipad
 

NC12

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Thanks NC12 just found it but it says 107 for percent - how can it be more than 100% ?.
That was also answered on the reddit post since I myself had 105%. Turns out with the shipping shortage apple used higher spec batteries than the device called for. So some devices have a higher capacity than they should
 
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BigMcGuire

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I've had devices come from Apple (out of box) - 96%-108%. It's a lottery but it may be why some people stay at 100% battery health for years too.
 

wilberforce

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Someone on reddit found out how without using any 3rd party app

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/p21nef
Another useful item:

<key>com.apple.power.battery.CycleCount</key>
<integer>302</integer>

btw, this is full aggregated cycles. 302 full cycles is what my 2018 iPad Pro has accumulated in 2 years of daily usage. (Discharging from 100% to 50% and charging back up from 50% to 100% counts as half a cycle). Mine is now at 94% capacity:

<key>com.apple.power.battery.MaximumCapacityPercent</key>
<integer>94</integer>
 

Lloigorr

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That was also answered on the reddit post since I myself had 105%. Turns out with the shipping shortage apple used higher spec batteries than the device called for. So some devices have a higher capacity than they should
My old MBPro retina from 2014 had 108% capacity when it was new. The system only showed 100% but 3rd party apps read the higher number.
 

Zapdoc

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most likely he wrote that on his cellphone and it was misspelled...
Nevermind I was he replied already, it was from an iPad :D
Interest downloads Coconut Battery and paid £9.95 for Plus version which lets me see iOS devices battery health and it says 100% fir battery health yet the information in the iPad activity gives it as 107% - guess its still I good health and I discovered the 11 inch iPad Pro was made in March 2021 plus a ton of other information - Guess I could have saved myself £9.95 if I'd just left it using the iOS activity data - still these things bugs one to find out more !
Thanks everyone for al suggestions
 

BigMcGuire

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I've been using coconutBattery for years and years and years. Great device. I can see the battery history of all my devices. Absolutely love it. I use it as my primary battery status on the menu bar? at the top.

Finding it the other way is cumbersome. But then again, I love looking at battery stats (probably way too much).
 

NATO

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I’m convinced my iPad Pro 10.5 (2017) battery is knackered so I’ve been trying to determine it’s health.

Coconut Battery says it is poor, 34% (??)
The log file method above says it is 80%
The diagnostic tool run at the Apple store says it is 84%

I think I’m just going to pay for a battery replacement but it’s clear there isn’t a definitive way of finding out the true battery health
 
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caranddriver

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Thanks for this. My parents are getting a new iPad in the mail soon, but trying to figure out their 9.7" iPad Pro Gen 1 battery health so I can take into Apple and get battery replaced/refurb.

Sounds like the log file is about in the ballpark.
 
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