I am using an 11-inch M4 iPad Pro.
I first noticed severe battery drain while the iPad was idle. After checking the device, I found that several unrelated functions had stopped working at the same time:
Front and rear cameras show a black screen
Face ID does not work
LiDAR does not work
Flashlight does not work
Apple Pencil is not detected, paired, or charged through the magnetic charging area
Apple Diagnostics at the Genius Bar also reported failures involving the front camera, rear camera, Face ID, and LiDAR.
I was told at the Genius Bar that, because the device is outside the standard warranty period, it would be treated as an out-of-warranty hardware failure and would not qualify for free repair.
There has been no drop or liquid damage. I have already performed multiple force restarts, updated iPadOS, and factory-reset the device several times, but the symptoms remain unchanged.
What seems unusual is that several functionally separate systems became unavailable at nearly the same time, together with severe standby battery drain.
Because of that, I am wondering whether this could be related to embedded software, firmware, power management, or low-level hardware control rather than several independent hardware components coincidentally failing at once.
Has anyone seen a similar issue on an M4 iPad Pro, or is there any known firmware or system-level failure that could cause this pattern?
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