October 17, 2025, 6:55 am | Read time: 3 minutes
On an iPhone or laptop, it’s no problem at all: reading the exact percentage of battery capacity. It’s a bit more challenging with an iPad. TECHBOOK reveals a trick to access this important information.
Following the Batterygate scandal in 2017, Apple provided iPhone users with a handy overview of their device’s battery health. However, since the iPad wasn’t affected by the controversy, this option is unfortunately missing in the settings. But since iPadOS is just a branch version of iOS, information about the iPad’s battery capacity can also be found here—albeit a bit hidden.
Where to Find Battery Capacity
Note: For this guide, we recommend using an external keyboard. It doesn’t matter if it’s connected via Bluetooth, USB-C/Lightning, or the SmartConnector. It’s only needed for a keyboard shortcut.
You can check your iPad’s battery capacity step by step. Follow these steps:
- Open the iPad Settings.
- Scroll down until you reach Privacy & Security and select it.
- Select the Analytics & Improvements option.
- Ensure that the Share iPad Analytics option is enabled in the next step.
- Click on Analytics Data.
- Select one of the entries that has one of these forms: log-aggregated–xxxx-xx-xx-xxxxxx.ips or Analytics-xxxx-xx-xx-xxxxxx.ips.ca.synced (The “x” represents the date and time the log files were created).
- Copy the content of the log file using the cmd–c keyboard shortcut on the connected keyboard (Alternative: If you don’t have an external keyboard, you can also send the log file via email or AirDrop to a computer. There, you can easily open the file with the pre-installed text editor).
- Paste the copied text into a text editing app. We recommend the pre-installed Notes app or Apple Pages.
- Click on the circular menu button in the Notes app.
- Select the Search option.
- You now have the following options:
- Enter MaximumCapacityPercent as a search term to find out how much of its original capacity the iPad battery still reaches. The percentage is found after the colon.
- Enter NominalChargeCapacity to find out how much capacity the iPad battery still reaches in milliampere-hours (mAh).
Why Battery Information is Important
The maximum capacity percentage indicates how much of the battery’s original capacity is still available. The lower this number, the shorter the battery life. With each charge cycle, the iPad loses a bit of battery capacity. The battery can then store less power and needs to be charged more frequently. If it eventually can’t hold its voltage, it can even lead to system crashes in extreme cases. Apple itself guarantees that iPad batteries will still reach 80 percent of their original capacity after 1,000 full charge cycles, which is twice as many cycles as the iPhone.