Why is Optimized Battery Charging not available for the iPad yet?

Actually, iPad Pro models have had a form of battery optimisation/charge-management for some time - although it’s implementation may be somewhat different from the iPhone. Newer non-Pro models might now share some form of charge management.

If the iPad is connected to external power during use for extended periods, you will often see that the maximum charge level doesn’t reach 100% - instead “topping out” at something lower in the low to mid 90s. When returning to a more “normal” discharge/charge routine, the full 100% charging strategy is restored. When first encountering this feature, given that it is not formally documented in the User Guide, this behaviour (intended to extend the service life of the battery) is sometimes suspected to be a fault.

It is worth noting that there a no charge management settings exposed via the iPad Settings App.

Hello,

This feature is exclusive to iPhone.

Product Feedback - Apple

iPad and iPhone have different design parameters for overall battery service-life.

Apple publicly state that the iPad is designed to retain at least 80% of its original battery capacity after 1000 complete charge/discharge cycles. By contrast, iPhone (with much lower capacity batteries) is designed to retain 80% of initial capacity after only 500 complete cycles.

Battery management strategies, reflecting the anticipated longer service life of the iPad, will differ between the two hardware platforms.

Thanks for your reply. Considering how much an iPad costs, you’d think that a transparent option would be available? Perhaps it is a coming feature. Given how long it took to get Battery Usage and Health Information on iPad vs iPhone, I’m not getting too excited.

Does that mean that the iPod touch has the same battery management characteristics as an iPad? I was in the Apple store last night and noticed that the new iPod touch has the same battery management options as iPads running iPad OS 13.

That is odd considering that they both use batteries, does apple care less about iPad batteries ?

Correct, iPod touch's battery management mirrors the same features as iPad.