iPad mini Battery life not so great.

[Hello...]

Battery life not so great. I’ve only used it for five hours of surfing the web no videos and I’m at 26% it shows I had five hours of use.
I’m really not sure mines going to get the 10 hours advertised battery life.

 

[Deliro]

I would give a couple charge cycles. First time setup its running a lot of background tasks. My third charge my battery improved

 

[New York]

I've just upgraded from an iPad Mini 2 (!) and it has a better battery life than my new Mini 6. I'm not sure if I got lucky with that Mini 2 but it's battery life has always been much better than that of my other Apple products (all purchased much more recently ).

 

[Rafterman]

Check to see if anything is dragging it down, like background processes.

 

[Hello...]

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[Deliro]

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This is your first cycle right? When I first used mine everything was downloading, installing, photos syncing, email syncing etc which killed my battery. After I got everything setup my battery improved. Give it a couple of days and if you don’t see improvement you should exchange it.

 

[Hello...]

This is your first cycle right? When I first used mine everything was downloading, installing, photos syncing, email syncing etc which killed my battery. After I got everything setup my battery improved. Give it a couple of days and if you don’t see improvement you should exchange it.

Yes first cycle…

 

[Deliro]

Yes first cycle…

Also lots of folks are unaware that there is an update for newly purchased iPad minis. It may have helped my battery.

 

[haruhiko]

It’s obviously better than the Mini 5.

 

[Tsepz]

Battery life not so great. I’ve only used it for five hours of surfing the web no videos and I’m at 26% it shows I had five hours of use.
I’m really not sure mines going to get the 10 hours advertised battery life.

It may due to it being the first charge cycle but also the M1 chipset is ludicrously powerful mix that with a newer and brighter screen etc…It may be harder to get the advertised battery life.

Do you have your screen brightness set to automatic?

 

[Denzo]

Yeah you definitely need to give it a night or two. My iPhone 13 on day 1 (yesterday) was at 20% at 2am, coming off a full charge at 3pm.
Today i took it off at 9:30am, it’s 8:19pm and I currently have 65% left. Something similar whenever I get a new device.

 

[Hello...]

Yeah you definitely need to give it a night or two. My iPhone 13 on day 1 (yesterday) was at 20% at 2am, coming off a full charge at 3pm.
Today i took it off at 9:30am, it’s 8:19pm and I currently have 65% left. Something similar whenever I get a new device.

This is the first device that ever acted like this I’m hoping to see how it is today and if not I’ll give it another couple days

 

[Marshall73]

Battery life normally evens out over the first few days, especially if you have a lot of content and restored from iCloud. I find you have a pretty good idea of the battery life after the first week of use. If it’s still low after that you can do some troubleshooting.

 

[Hello...]

Battery life normally evens out over the first few days, especially if you have a lot of content and restored from iCloud. I find you have a pretty good idea of the battery life after the first week of use. If it’s still low after that you can do some troubleshooting.

It might seem a little bit better today I’m not sure I’m going to run it a couple more days empty it and see what happens

 

[curdy]

4th battery cycle now and down 50% within an hour almost

 

[curdy]

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4th battery cycle now and down 50% within an hour almost

This is strictly using safari, although yes on MacRumors which I know has issues. Other apps not closed but not “running“ in the background as noted by the Battery settings page. Plugged in at 36% after 1.75 hours of use.

 

[Denzo]

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4th battery cycle now and down 50% within an hour almost

I’d just fresh install at that point. Probably a much better solution out there if you can find it.

 

[curdy]

I’d just fresh install at that point. Probably a much better solution out there if you can find it.

Fresh install iOS 15?

 

[FattiesGoneWild]

Fresh install iOS 15?

Yes. Factory reset erasing everything with out restoring starting out fresh.

 

[curdy]

Yes. Factory reset erasing everything with out restoring starting out fresh.

I will update in a couple days once I have done that and had a few battery cycles following. Unfortunately just on a work trip.

 

[Denzo]

I will update in a couple days once I have done that and had a few battery cycles following. Unfortunately just on a work trip.

Let us know how you go. It’s taking me so long to update on iCloud I’m considering the same and just reinstalling from scratch. I’d lose my photos though although they are backed up to google but I don’t know how well it works

 

[Deliro]

Fresh install iOS 15?

Install some safari ad blocking extensions too.

 

[Deliro]

Let us know how you go. It’s taking me so long to update on iCloud I’m considering the same and just reinstalling from scratch. I’d lose my photos though although they are backed up to google but I don’t know how well it works

Why would you lose your photos?

 

[Denzo]

If I wipe my phone clean and go off iCloud.. they aren’t on iCloud. Even worse my HDD on pc is nearly full so I can’t back up onto windows because iTunes defaults to the C Drive and nowhere else

 

[Andysapple]

It may due to it being the first charge cycle but also the M1 chipset is ludicrously powerful mix that with a newer and brighter screen etc…It may be harder to get the advertised battery life.

Do you have your screen brightness set to automatic?

The mini doesn’t use M1 unfortunately.