iPad Pro Help! Can I keep my iPad Pro 2021 connected to the iphone charger?

[Paulo Henrique Baldassi]

I have an iPad Pro M1 12.9 and I use Lumafusion a lot to edit videos. I like to keep my equipments battery between 20 and 80%. My last iphone 11 after 10 months was still at 99% battery health. On my macbook Pro M1 I use the AlDent app to keep the battery around 80% when connected. As there is no similar app for the iPad, I found that if I connect the iPad to the iPhone 11's 5V charger, the iPad doesn't discharge or charge the battery, it remains stable. My question: is it harmful to the health of the iPad battery to use the iPhone charger to stabilize the iPad battery charge while working on videos?

If I use the original iPad charger, it charges the battery up to 100%. As the iPhone charger keeps the battery at the same charge I found it interesting, as theoretically it would be the same idea as the Aldente I use on the Mac. But my fear is that the low voltage of the iPhone charger harms the iPad battery. Also I note that the iPhone charger is quite hot when connected to the iPad, but the iPad is totally cold.

The idea is to keep the iPad's battery as healthy as possible and not needlessly run battery cycles.

Thank You!

 

[Shirasaki]

iPad battery will receive more harm by being exposed to heat than using a slow charger to recharge imo. Modern electronics have gone a long way to offer decent power delivery protection that as long as you don’t do something extremely stupid (shorting out charging port for example), you will be fine.

Also, iPad says “not charging” doesn’t mean it will not drop charge when using it under heavy load. I usually wire connect my phone to my PC to offer personal hotspot connection. When I also play the game, the battery drops so fast to a point the phone charging can’t keep up with the demand and I end up with low power warning WHILE it is being charged lol! Same could happen on your iPad.

 

[fwmireault]

Strictly regarding battery durability, it should not be an issue. Lower wattage is better for battery health than high wattage, so 5W for iPad Pro will be fine. Only thing is that on more heavy tasks, the iPad Pro can slowly discharge even when connected to the 5W charger. But if it stays stable even on Lumafusion, I would not be worried

 

[Paulo Henrique Baldassi]

Strictly regarding battery durability, it should not be an issue. Lower wattage is better for battery health than high wattage, so 5W for iPad Pro will be fine. Only thing is that on more heavy tasks, the iPad Pro can slowly discharge even when connected to the 5W charger. But if it stays stable even on Lumafusion, I would not be worried

Thanks so much for the responses so far!
I need to test more, but so far, even rendering heavy files, the battery hasn't drained even 1%. If the ipad is not in use, the battery charge increases by 1% to 2% every hour. With video editing in Lumafusion and rendering, the battery remains stable. I spent over an hour doing this and the battery charge is stable. so i mustn't worry!!!

 

[Paulo Henrique Baldassi]

A bateria do iPad receberá mais danos por estar exposta ao calor do que usando um carregador lento para recarregar imo. Os eletrônicos modernos têm ido um longo caminho para oferecer proteção decente de entrega de energia que, desde que você não faça algo extremamente estúpido (shorting out charging port, por exemplo), você vai ficar bem.

Além disso, o iPad diz que "não carregar" não significa que não vai soltar carga ao usá-lo sob carga pesada. Eu costumo conectar meu telefone ao meu PC para oferecer conexão pessoal hotspot. Quando eu também jogo o jogo, a bateria cai tão rápido até um ponto que o carregamento do telefone não consegue acompanhar a demanda e eu acabo com aviso de baixa potência ENQUANTO ele está sendo carregado rsrsrs! O mesmo pode acontecer no seu iPad.

Nos meus testes até agora, editando e renderizando vídeos em Lumafusion com o iPad conectado ao carregador de 5v do iPhone, a bateria do iPad permanece totalmente estável. Não caiu nem 1%, nem subiu.

 

[Shirasaki]

LOL… Somehow my comment got translated to another language I don’t understand.

Anyway, another point: chemical components reacts and degrades overtime nonetheless, and even if the battery percentage does not drop, the charge discharge may still happen.

My old MacBook Air has less than 200 recharge cycle and its health is already down to 78% despite being charged all the time.

 

[Paulo Henrique Baldassi]

LOL… Somehow my comment got translated to another language I don’t understand.

Anyway, another point: chemical components reacts and degrades overtime nonetheless, and even if the battery percentage does not drop, the charge discharge may still happen.

My old MacBook Air has less than 200 recharge cycle and its health is already down to 78% despite being charged all the time.

Sorry! It was a bug here on my computer that translated your answer without my meaning to. How old is your Macbook Air?
A question: if the battery of the ipad kept discharging while conected, when I restarted it wouldn't have to show the real battery charge? Or is the percentage of charge shown in the system a lie?

 

[Shirasaki]

Sorry! It was a bug here on my computer that translated your answer without my meaning to. How old is your Macbook Air?
A question: if the battery of the ipad kept discharging while conected, when I restarted it wouldn't have to show the real battery charge? Or is the percentage of charge shown in the system a lie?

My MacBook Air is 7 years old at this point.

The percentage can easily be manufactured by Apple with smart tricks, so 100% battery May only be 95% but you wouldn’t really know that since even those third party battery software only extract what’s been processed by chips, rather than raw data.