It certainly has been very good. I'm on 8 hours use at 52%.
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iPad Pro battery life is amazing me
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I'm going on my honeymoon this Friday and really don't want to take my iPad Pro with me.
Will it hurt my battery if I don't use the iPad or charge it for 3 weeks?
Would it be better to just take it and use it occasionally?
Will it hurt my battery if I don't use the iPad or charge it for 3 weeks?
Would it be better to just take it and use it occasionally?
The 10.5" has quad speakers. Am I missing something here? I have one, and all four speakers are projecting sound, and Apple's website says it has four speakers. It's not like the iPhone that has a dummy cutout on one side. It also has pretty good battery life, with most reviews showing somewhere between 12-13 hours. Hard for me to test that personally because I'm running iOS 11 and the battery life section is broken right now and beta software isn't very good for battery life. IMO the only notable difference between the two seems to be the difference in display size, weight, and price. Weigh those factors to make a decision.
I think you are not fully understanding my post. When I was replying to the GoBikeriders post on the first page, he owns the 12.9 Pro and I was stating my liking for the larger iPad, which the quad speakers is one of my favorite features. I wasn't referring to the 10.5 iPad in that Post, but yes, the 10.5 iPad does have quad speakers as well.
The 12.9 iPad does have better sounding speakers though, as they have carbon fiber caps over the speakers to help emanate the sound more.
I would start by checking your battery statistics and finding out which applications might be contributing to battery drain. There could be a third-party application that is causing some of the battery fatigue.
Yes. If you don't use your iPad for 3 weeks it could shorten the overall life expectancy of your battery up to 35%. This is exactly why Apple uses fast shipping from China: it helps avoid this problem.
Just use the iPad every night in bed for 15-20 mins and your iPad should be fine. I'm sure your new wife will understand.
Or probably brightness level and or location services.
hahaha. any facts / sources?
the only bad thing for those batteries is to store them FULLY charged without using them for long periods of times or deep discharging. But leaving an ipad unused with 60% battery life for 3 weeks (turned off) isn't doing any harm... certainly not 35% battery damage.
Yes, drain it down to about 55-60% for storage. It won't hurt that battery at all.
player for video formats including more exotic or older ones...
My understanding is that if the iPad has to do decoding (i.e. anything other than MP4 files) the battery life suffers significantly due to the processing power required to do so on the fly. If you use an app like Air Video HD it solves this problem and gives you other handy features:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/air-video-hd/id668354926?ls=1&mt=8
My iPP 10.5" arrives today so I have been looking into this issue specifically for some time now. Hopefully I don't have any issues otherwise with the iPad like yellow screen or back-light bleed (fingers crossed).
majority is standby usage try using youtube and asphalt 8 you won't get 6 hours
Settings wise disable Spotlight Search for all apps and disable Siri Suggestions and turn off Siri as well. Go turn off background app refresh, go to location services make sure those are in check, turn off the useless ones, so on my iPad I have this
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Yah i dont use it as my video is either YouTube through Safari or Netflix.
Battery life is incredible...almost like a "it's too good to be true" feeling. Right now I'm on 43% remaining, with 10 hours / usage and 52 hour standby. And this with Safari browsing, YouTube, Reddit, Netflix, using Citrix to remote into my Work PC.
It's crazy.
EDIT: And that's without disabling anything in that screenshot above. I've only disabled Siri. But now I've seen above what can be disabled in the System Location Service, I'll be doing that now.
It's crazy.
EDIT: And that's without disabling anything in that screenshot above. I've only disabled Siri. But now I've seen above what can be disabled in the System Location Service, I'll be doing that now.
16 hours of usage is still amazing for browsing and video streaming. Most people don't need their iPads to play asphalt 8 for 6+ hours like you do. Gaming is always very taxing on any battery (iPad, iPhone or MacBook).
Weird. My 10.5 had at least 85% charge when I put it down last night for bed. Around noon today I picked it up and it's dead.
Find my iPhone 1%
Siri 99%
Find my iPhone 1%
Siri 99%