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Without more detail, I find the author's observation hard to accept at face value. The iPad battery usage being shown doesn't account for just the normal "asle

Without more detail, I find the author's observation hard to accept at face value. The iPad battery usage being shown doesn't account for just the normal "asleep" battery drain, which, if it's not broken out specifically, could be just misleadingly assigning the Find My usage as the main part of it. (as the only thing that had active functions) It would be better to show what the battery usage/drain is without any airtags nearby and make sure he/she isn't just measuring the normal sleeping usage and inaccurately saying that Airtags caused it.

kayodelycaon 5y ago
Things broadcasting on WiFi can drain an iPad. I have some WiFi light bulbs and they are pretty noisy. I had to put my iPads on a separate vlan to keep them from draining in a few days of standby. My Mac laptops don’t have this issue. I think it’s because they are configured to not awake up on standby unless plugged in.
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  Now that's an interesting one. I'm glad I haven't run into that. I've got ~50 noisy little wifi switches in my house, but it hasn't affected my iPad battery life. -knock on wood-
  - kayodelycaon 5y ago
    I'm 90% sure Home Assistant is waking up the bulbs more than necessary. (Yay random open source plugins!) It's not a problem for anything else on the network.
lcmatt 5y ago
I've had this issue too. My iPad pro is generally within 4 foot of an airtag which is attached to my keys. During the day I don't see any real battery drain however during the night it seems to be draining the battery at an accelerated rate. I'd wake up and check it within the battery info section to see Find My using 90%+ of the battery over the last 24hrs. I now have a shortcut setup to disable bluetooth on the iPad from midnight > 7am. Find my usage drops all the way down to <2% and battery drain is very minimal - if I leave bluetooth on overnight it jumps all the way back up and drains approx 40-60% of the battery overnight.

kayodelycaon 5y ago

Things broadcasting on WiFi can drain an iPad. I have some WiFi light bulbs and they are pretty noisy. I had to put my iPads on a separate vlan to keep them from draining in a few days of standby. My Mac laptops don’t have this issue. I think it’s because they are configured to not awake up on standby unless plugged in.

rootusrootus 5y ago
Now that's an interesting one. I'm glad I haven't run into that. I've got ~50 noisy little wifi switches in my house, but it hasn't affected my iPad battery life. -knock on wood-
- kayodelycaon 5y ago
  I'm 90% sure Home Assistant is waking up the bulbs more than necessary. (Yay random open source plugins!) It's not a problem for anything else on the network.

lcmatt 5y ago

I've had this issue too. My iPad pro is generally within 4 foot of an airtag which is attached to my keys. During the day I don't see any real battery drain however during the night it seems to be draining the battery at an accelerated rate. I'd wake up and check it within the battery info section to see Find My using 90%+ of the battery over the last 24hrs. I now have a shortcut setup to disable bluetooth on the iPad from midnight > 7am. Find my usage drops all the way down to <2% and battery drain is very minimal - if I leave bluetooth on overnight it jumps all the way back up and drains approx 40-60% of the battery overnight.