iPad Repair: How to Fix Battery Life Problems

Apple now has five iPad models for sale, giving you plenty of options when it comes to selecting the finest iPad. While reading the web, checking email, and conversing, each iPad is rated for about 10 hours of battery life. 

However, if you’ve just set up a new one, particularly if you restored it from a previous device backup or loaded iPadOS 15, you may see higher battery consumption than you’d expect.

Instead of cursing and throwing your iPad — no matter how much you want to! Now here’s some ideas for iPad repair related to battery life and get back to living your life.

1. Fixing iPad Battery Problems

Do you have a problem with the battery on your new (or old) iPad? Use these troubleshooting steps to see if you can repair it before visiting any authorised iPad repair service centre.

Wait for It

Whether you restore from a backup, set up as new, or apply an update to iPadOS, your iPad may consume a lot of battery life when downloading apps, games, mail, images, and other content. Since the Wi-Fi radio is left on for an extended period of time, Spotlight, the iPadOS search system, has to index everything. Power consumption skyrockets when radios and CPUs cannot sleep.

Give things a day or two to finish up and get back to normal if you’ve lately upgraded your hardware or installed new software. If everything goes well after that, it’s fantastic. Continue reading if you haven’t done so already.

2. Test on Standby

Apart from the fact that the system takes a long time to fully transfer everything over, we also like to spend a lot of time experimenting with new iPads and features. 

That’s especially true when it comes to features like ProMotion or Apple Pencil, as well as additional drag-and-drop and augmented reality (AR) options. The screen then remains illuminated, storage is written, Wi-Fi and maybe cellular radios are illuminated, and power is spent.

To put it another way, if your battery only lasts half as long as it used to, ask yourself if you are using it twice as much.

You can also take note of how much battery life is left on your iPad and then put it down for 20-40 minutes. Keep track of how much battery life is left when you pick it up again. If you don’t notice a significant difference when in standby, then all is fine, and your battery life will revert to normal once your usage resumes (after the novelty wears off).

Continue to the following stage if your iPad continues to drain rapidly even while you weren’t using it.

3. Reset

Rebooting, or resetting, or restarting is the oldest cliché in troubleshooting since it works. At times all it takes is a good reset to clear out the bad bits and restore iPad battery life. Here’s how to reset an iPad with a Home button, such as the iPad (2020).

• Simultaneously, press and hold both the Sleep/Wake (on/off) and the Home buttons.
• As the screen shuts off, continue to hold them down.
• Continue to keep them down until the Apple logo appears.

Because the 2018 and subsequent iPad Pro models, as well as the iPad Air 4, lack a Home button, you’ll have to do things a little differently if you’ve got Apple’s newest tablet.

• On your iPad, press and hold the top and volume buttons at the same time.
• Hold them in place as the screen shuts off.
• Hold them in place until you see the Apple logo.
• Release the buttons.

Repeat the previous procedures after your iPad has rebooted to see if the battery drain has returned to normal. Continue reading if you haven’t already.

4. Check Usage 

iPadOS includes a fantastic energy utilisation — often known as battery shaming — tool that shows you exactly which apps and services are draining your battery and in what way. Knowing this information can help you come one step closer to recharging your iPad’s battery.

• From your Home screen, go to Settings.
• Battery can be tapped. Allow a few moments for Battery Usage to appear.
• To see a breakdown of foreground and background power usage, tap the Show Detailed Usage option.
• To receive a more comprehensive view of power use over time, select the Last 7 Days option.

It’s not easy to grasp, but here’s how it works: If you see iCloud Photo Library there after upgrading, that means you’re downloading thumbnails, and everything should be back to normal after you’re done. It’s a clue that something is awry if you see Facebook there and it shows 4 percent on screen and 40% in the background.

If you know how to force shut an app on your iPad at that moment, you should be able to restore your power consumption back to normal.

• To use the rapid app switcher, double-press the Home button.
• Swipe to the app you’d like to close.
• Flick the app card up and off the screen by touching it.

If you don’t have a Home button on your iPad, swipe up from the bottom of the screen until you see the App Switch. More information on how to do this can be found in our gestures how-to guide.

If an app appears to be malfunctioning on a regular basis, you can consider reinstalling it or switching to another app or the web app version of the service for some of your activities.

5. Restore as New

It’s not always easy to restore from an old backup, especially if it’s on a different device like an iPhone. Cruft accumulates, and things don’t run as smoothly as they once did. Your once-new setup can likewise get old with time.

If you think that’s the case, just accept it and reset your iPad to factory settings. Yes, it can be a pain in the apps, but if you have a serious and persistent problem that no other remedy can address, starting up as new can be a viable option for improving iPad battery life.

However, because of online services and storage, it is no more the nuclear option it once was. Many types of files, including iCloud Keychain for passwords, now stream or sync from the cloud.

You’ll have to reset a lot of things, including passwords and settings, and you’ll lose all of your saved data, such as game levels, but your battery life will be higher than before in most circumstances.

6. Lowering Power on iPad

Although there is no Low Battery Mode for iPad like there is for iPhone, there is still a lot you can do to reduce power consumption.

• Reduce the brightness of the screen.
• Auto-Lock should be set to 1 minute.
• If you need to listen to audio or music, use headphones instead of the speaker.
• To stop your display from being lit up, turn off Lock screen notifications.
• Instead than using push for mail, use fetch.
• For apps, disable Background Refresh.

Every now and then, you encounter a situation that you simply cannot solve. Things can go wrong with electronics, just like they can with any other device. If you have AppleCare or AppleCare+, you should make a Genius Bar appointment as soon as possible. If you don’t live near an Apple Store, you may schedule a mail-in repair, or visit any authorised iPad repair centre to get your battery problem fixed.