A number of iPad owners who also own Apple AirTags have complained that the iPad battery drains faster when the two Apple devices are near each other. This is true especially if the two Apple devices are registered using the same Apple ID.
Per Annoying Technology’s Philipp Defner, over the past several months, his iPad Pro’s battery began draining faster than usual. When he checked which activity was draining the iPad battery, “Find my App” was discharging 35 percent of the battery drain of his iPad. Apple AirTags are supposed to communicate with other Find My devices to track the whereabouts of those devices.
Apple’s AirTags, which were released last April, feature a tracking device that can be used to locate important items. The accessories use Apple’s Find My Network to track the location of missing items by communicating with the AirTags attached to those items.
The AirTags shouldn’t be consuming this much of an iPad’s battery, and are designed to communicate with other Apple devices through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol. This could be a software bug that could be repaired via an iPadOS update. Apple must first acknowledge that the reported issue is indeed a prevailing issue among many iPad users.
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Via The Mac Observer and Annoying Technology