Apple May Finally Allow You to Check Battery Health & Cycle Count on Upcoming iPads
Apr. 4, 2024Earlier this week, Apple pushed out its first iPadOS 17.5 Beta for developers. This new software update has several references that hint at Apple’s plans to expand the iPhone’s Battery Health menu to the upcoming iPad models.
MacRumors contributorsSteve Moser and Aaron Perris have dug deep into the iPadOS 17.5 code and discovered several new references to a Battery Health menu on the iPad. This menu in the iPad’s Settings app is expected to show the battery capacity and cycle count.
Right now, these battery statistics are exclusive to iPhones. For years, you can easily check battery health on an iPad or Mac, but there’s no direct way to do it on an iPad. You have to follow a complex, lengthy workaround to get to those numbers or use a shortcut tocheck the battery health on an iPad.
Talking about the Cycle Count, it currently is exclusive toiPhone 15 models.It’s a useful feature that shows additional details about the battery’s health. Based on the references obtained from the iPadOS 17.5 codes, it seems Apple is gearing up to expand these useful features to future iPad models.
The first iPadOS 17.5 beta has some code strings that reference the new battery health menu:
The existing iPad models running the first iPadOS 17.5 beta do not have a dedicated Battery Health menu. Therefore, it’s speculated that this menu is exclusive to thelong-awaited iPad Pro and iPad Air models, which are now expected to arrive in May. Also, other iPads released in the future will have these updates.
The public version of iPadOS 17.5 is likely to roll out in May. Since the reference codes are found in beta, it’s uncertain if we’ll see the Battery Health menu on the iPad. The good news is that Apple is working on expanding these features, so we can expect to see them, sooner or later.
