I have a new iPad Pro M1 and am seeing a ton of battery drain just sitting and its all coming from the Findmy App (background activity) web search is showing it may be AirTags, are we saying I cant have any AirTags?
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iPad Pro Massive battery drain, find my
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You can chill. That is nothing to worry about and doesn't necessarily show a lot battery drain. It means that in your selected time interval (24 hrs), of all the apps you used, Find My was responsible for 63% of the energy consumption. So if you didn't do much with your iPad, it would be perfectly normal for Find My to be responsible for 63% of the battery used. It looks like you didn't use your iPad much because the screen was only on for 2 minutes, so this all makes perfect sense.
Yea but my iPad fully charged Friday and in my bag all weekend left with 10% Monday am sorry that’s just crazy battery drain
Simple solution is to turn it off when you aren't going to use it. I keep all of my iPads off. If I am going to use them when I pick them up I hold down the power button so by the time I settle in it is ready to go. Assume this also the best way to preserve my battery.
Had the same problem when I got my new Mini 6. Had to do with proximity to AirTags. It resolved after I removed the AirTags from my account then re-added them.
I have the same problem with a 2018 iPad Pro 11". Left in sleep mode, it can lose 5-10% of power per day (no apps running, background tasks off). The battery sub panel also claims Find My is responsible. I have three AirTags on my account, plus there are others not on my account in my household.
@Phineasgage1848, interesting, I'll have to try removing and re-adding my AirTags to see if that helps.
@Phineasgage1848, interesting, I'll have to try removing and re-adding my AirTags to see if that helps.
There are two answers to your question, OP:
1) Yes, that is excessive. My cellular iPad mini 6 can go almost an entire week on standby without dying and it has a much smaller battery. I don't actively turn anything off or disable anything--just use it as I please and charge it about once or twice a week. Your iPad should be able to match or exceed that standby time since it has a bigger battery and a very similar chip. (albeit a MUCH larger and more power hungry display)
2) It's probably not FindMy causing it. I had the same exact problem on my 10.5" iPad Pro, my 11" iPad Pro, and even on my 12.9" 2020 iPad Pro for a short time. The problem always seemed to come and go with specific iPadOS dot releases. It was never a permanent issue. I also never figured out how to fix it other than to turn wifi off when I wasn't using it. I tried the following things to troubleshoot and ultimately gave up:
--Restore from backup and start again.
--Restore defaults from no backup and start again.
--Completely wipe and DFU restore the iPad like they do at the Apple Store.
--Completely wipe and DFU restore the iPad but then only install one app at a time to see when the battery starts
draining.
Even when I was able to get some temporary success, the problem would return after a day or two. Apple even replaced iPads for me a couple times and it didn't go away. The issue is software, it's not consistent, and it can get very frustrating.
You'll notice Apple doesn't crow about iPad battery standby time anymore. They used to talk about how you could just leave your iPad sitting there and come back weeks later and it would still be usable. Those days seem to be gone. Here is my actual advice for you: for now, turn off wifi in Control Center when you're not using the device. At the next iPadOS update, wait a couple of days and start leaving it on again. If the problem doesn't come back you're probably good. And for what it's worth, I haven't seen this issue in years. They seem to have mostly resolved it.
1) Yes, that is excessive. My cellular iPad mini 6 can go almost an entire week on standby without dying and it has a much smaller battery. I don't actively turn anything off or disable anything--just use it as I please and charge it about once or twice a week. Your iPad should be able to match or exceed that standby time since it has a bigger battery and a very similar chip. (albeit a MUCH larger and more power hungry display)
2) It's probably not FindMy causing it. I had the same exact problem on my 10.5" iPad Pro, my 11" iPad Pro, and even on my 12.9" 2020 iPad Pro for a short time. The problem always seemed to come and go with specific iPadOS dot releases. It was never a permanent issue. I also never figured out how to fix it other than to turn wifi off when I wasn't using it. I tried the following things to troubleshoot and ultimately gave up:
--Restore from backup and start again.
--Restore defaults from no backup and start again.
--Completely wipe and DFU restore the iPad like they do at the Apple Store.
--Completely wipe and DFU restore the iPad but then only install one app at a time to see when the battery starts
draining.
Even when I was able to get some temporary success, the problem would return after a day or two. Apple even replaced iPads for me a couple times and it didn't go away. The issue is software, it's not consistent, and it can get very frustrating.
You'll notice Apple doesn't crow about iPad battery standby time anymore. They used to talk about how you could just leave your iPad sitting there and come back weeks later and it would still be usable. Those days seem to be gone. Here is my actual advice for you: for now, turn off wifi in Control Center when you're not using the device. At the next iPadOS update, wait a couple of days and start leaving it on again. If the problem doesn't come back you're probably good. And for what it's worth, I haven't seen this issue in years. They seem to have mostly resolved it.
I always put my iPad in airplane mode before leaving it. It has made no difference since background Find My started sucking the life from the battery.
Without specific evidence, I agree with others here that it has to do with AirTags, or really with Apple's implementation of the Find My network. In order to do the cooperative device finding even for those devices without cellular or WiFi radios, iPhones and iPads have to wake up periodically and look for Find My network items, reporting back to the mothership if the iPhones/iPads see anything. I suspect that there's no way to disable this. I've tried unenrolling my iPad from Find My but it did not help.
Without specific evidence, I agree with others here that it has to do with AirTags, or really with Apple's implementation of the Find My network. In order to do the cooperative device finding even for those devices without cellular or WiFi radios, iPhones and iPads have to wake up periodically and look for Find My network items, reporting back to the mothership if the iPhones/iPads see anything. I suspect that there's no way to disable this. I've tried unenrolling my iPad from Find My but it did not help.
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