How to Stop iPad Battery Drain When It's in StandBy Mode

Published at : 18 Dec 2025

The battery standby time of my iPad Pro M4 was abysmal, but I was able to drastically improve things considerably by tweaking a few things.

Hope you find this useful :)


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Video Timeline
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00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - iPad battery standby issue
01:42 - Popular iPad battery tweaks
03:01 - Reviewing battery usage
04:15 - Low power mode
05:13 - Background app refresh
07:17 - Battery report is lacking
08:09 - Most effective method
09:07 - What say you?

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