iPad Pro M1 iPad Pro 12.9 battery life

[Lobwedgephil]

Mine seems a little worse than my 2018 so far, but not a huge difference.

 

[applematic]

0-25% display brightness, ProMotion disabled (seems to help stop my iPad-induced headache)

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WOW that's insanely good! Lol by 0-25% do you mean 0 mostly?

I do think the brightness on these will have the most impact to Battery. I am very disappointed too since the display is the killer feature and you really need it to be reasonably bright to have a noticeable difference from the previous Gen or the 11 inch.

 

[Marshall73]

How’s everybody’s battery life? Not a good start here

That’s the screen time display, not battery usage. Go to settings battery and screenshot the 5 day usage figures

 

[The Game 161]

That’s the screen time display, not battery usage. Go to settings battery and screenshot the 5 day usage figures

Don’t need to use that screenshot as I know how long it was off charge. It was 5 hours screen time and over 9 hours off the charger. That was also the first full day’s from 100% charge.

 

[applematic]

Well…..I’ve just ran the rest of my battery down and it stopped at 2% for about 30min (which was strange), then it dropped to 1% lasted about 2min and switched off.
iPad has now switched off due to dead battery and I’ve plugged it in and charging back up to 100%

Same had to switch over to my M1 MBA (first world problems) but one of the main reasons I got the M1 MBA was battery life. I consistently get 13+ hours on regular usage with the MBA and that's 2-3x what I have been getting on the M1 12.9 iPad Pro.

 

[applematic]

Well, they have 2 weeks to address this situation then I may think about a return.

6 hours from a full 100% charge isn’t good, and nothing near what they state at “10 hrs”

Totally agree...have about 10 days left on my return period and its looking more and more likely.

 

[leebroath]

Same had to switch over to my M1 MBA (first world problems) but one of the main reasons I got the M1 MBA was battery life. I consistently get 13+ hours on regular usage with the MBA and that's 2-3x what I have been getting on the M1 12.9 iPad Pro.

As I’ve said, I’m giving it a few weeks to bed in, if not, then it’s either going back to my 2018 iPad Pro (which is currently up for sale) or purchase the new 11” 2021

 

[rui no onna]

WOW that's insanely good! Lol by 0-25% do you mean 0 mostly?

I do think the brightness on these will have the most impact to Battery. I am very disappointed too since the display is the killer feature and you really need it to be reasonably bright to have a noticeable difference from the previous Gen or the 11 inch.

Yeah, mostly 0-5% reading fanfics in Safari. I think Reduce White Point may have been enabled for most of it as well. I need brightness low to avoid headaches.

Only time it was at 25% was the 3+ hours in Infuse watching Avengers: Endgame in 4K HDR.

In any case, I didn’t upgrade because of the display. I was still on the 2017 Pro and I wanted FaceID, 1TB, 5G and Logitech Crayon support. M1+16GB RAM was a major bonus for longevity.

 

[applematic]

Maybe mine has settled down.

12% left and on 10 hours, 12 mins screen on time. 7 hours of zoom as well.

Nice did you update to 14.6?

 

[applematic]

Yeah, mostly 0-5% reading fanfics in Safari. I think Reduce White Point may have been enabled for most of it as well. I need brightness low to avoid headaches.

Only time it was at 25% was the 3+ hours in Infuse watching Avengers: Endgame in 4K HDR.

In any case, I didn’t upgrade because of the display. I was still on the 2017 Pro and I wanted FaceID, 1TB, 5G and Logitech Crayon support. M1+16GB RAM was a major bonus for longevity.

Makes sense! Checked all the boxes! And that's killer battery life!

 

[Ipadlover29]

Auto brightness set at 20% I’ve been getting about 10.5 hours of screen on time. About .5 to 1 hour more usage than 2020 iPad Pro 12.9.

 

[LFC2020]

Don’t forget this M1 mini led beast has only been out for 6 days, hardly any apps are optimised for it, actually got pretty decent battery life yesterday close to 7h with 30% left, also battery life hasn’t been that great for iPads since iPadOS 14.5, even zolotech mentions it in all his iOS/iPadOS software updates videos, most of the time his getting 5h or lower usage.

 

[LFC2020]

Charged this beautiful M1 beast, gorgeous mini led display of a iPad to a 100% this morning, looking good so far.

1h14m usage 88% battery life left ? only had my replacement device for 3 days.

 

[applematic]

Updated to 14.6, hoping that helps the battery life.

 

[Nikhil72]

Watched a 2.5 hour movie streamed from my iTunes library. 4K HDR brightness on auto at 50% streamed over WiFi with my AirPods Pro’s, lost 20%. Magic keyboard and Apple Pencil were attached, 14.6.

 

[scupking]

Would be nice if Apple could give us 15 hours. It's been 10 since the first iPad.

 

[calstanford]

Apple always has been lying about 12.9" iPad battery performance. The 11" was spot on 10hrs for me, sometimes even 11. The 2018 12.9 maybe 7 hours on a lucky day. The new M1 I got is mega disappointing. I am talking 4-5 hours, similar to an intel macbook Pro bad.

 

[LFC2020]

W

Apple always has been lying about 12.9" iPad battery performance. The 11" was spot on 10hrs for me, sometimes even 11. The 2018 12.9 maybe 7 hours on a lucky day. The new M1 I got is mega disappointing. I am talking 4-5 hours, similar to an intel macbook Pro bad.

what brightness you using it at?

 

[Marshall73]

Don’t need to use that screenshot as I know how long it was off charge. It was 5 hours screen time and over 9 hours off the charger. That was also the first full day’s from 100% charge.

So what was the remaining battery%

 

[AVBeatMan]

Testing mine today. 100% at 08:00. Will report back later.

 

[haruhiko]

Charged to 100% at 7:36AM. Battery at 78% as at 3:53PM. No plug-in in between.
New iPad Pro 12.9 inch 5th Gen. - Cellular version (on LTE instead of 5G)
iPadOS 14.6. With Smart Keyboard attached.




I don’t think this battery life is bad at all.
From the experience from iPhone I’m now inclined to hide the battery percentage - it only gives me anxiety and drives me to charge the device more often than I should.

 

[LFC2020]

Charged to 100% at 7:36AM. Battery at 78% as at 3:53PM. No plug-in in between.
New iPad Pro 12.9 inch 5th Gen. - Cellular version (on LTE instead of 5G)
iPadOS 14.6. With Smart Keyboard attached.

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I don’t think this battery life is bad at all.
From the experience from iPhone I’m now inclined to hide the battery percentage - it only gives me anxiety and drives me to charge the device more often than I should.

Looking good, what's your brightness level at when using the iPad?

 

[haruhiko]

Looking good, what's your brightness level at when using the iPad?

Currently about 50%.

 

[LFC2020]

Currently about 50%.

Nice, very solid battery life at that brightness.

 

[haruhiko]

Nice, very solid battery life at that brightness.

@ 5:34PM.
Also worth mentioning is that it has been on LTE most of the time (all on LTE after I left home for work) since I don’t connect to the company’s wifi (for privacy reasons obviously).
I’m in Asia so it’s day time here.