Does old iPad air's iOS v12.5.7's battery not have a health feature?

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iPhone 6+'s iOS v12.5.7 has it. Both were from early 2015.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

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This year’s new iPads (M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air) are the only iPads that support reporting battery health from Settings / Battery. I know that my Air 4 running the latest iPadOS 17.5.1 still doesn’t report battery health.

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Thanks. I wonder why Apple never included this feature in the older iPads.

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If I could guess, the battery on an iPad is much larger than iPhone and the amount of charge loss from charge cycle degradation is probably a lot slower. Still, I wouldn’t mind seeing it.

Of course you can get a decent approximation with the app Coconut Battery on the Mac with a connected iOS or iPadOS device.