iPad feature I'd love: deep sleep. I find whenever I go a few days or a week between using an iPad, it's often dead or almost dead. An auto-deep sleep mode after 24 hours of non-use would be awesome, even if it took 5 seconds or so to wake back up
@christianselig I’ve been able to greatly extend battery life by setting up an automation to put it in airplane mode overnight. I usually only have to recharge it once a week or so
@christianselig I can’t decide if this is an, “If I asked people what they want, they’d ask for faster horses” or you have to feed a horse every day argument.
@christianselig I wonder if you can do that with the Shortcuts app (pushing your device into Low Power Mode to kill background stuff) when it’s unused for a certain amount of time
@christianselig@buzzle If there’s an app you use every time on the iPad, you could log the date each time that app is opened to a JSON file. Then run an automation every day that checks the date and if it’s been more than X period of time, enable Low Power Mode
@christianselig Dead/mostly dead iPad here too. It’s gotten so that I have a shortcut that sends me a message (to plug the iPad in) when the iPad's battery drops to a certain percentage.
@christianselig huh, the iPad we use in my household (current generation plain iPad, not a pro, not a mini, not an air) will last a really long time battery wise (easily a week) when unused. I’ll try and pay more attention to it, but I wonder if there is a specific app that’s draining power from your device.
@christianselig I pretty much pick up my Ipad Mini about once a week when I'm planted on the sofa and want to watch some television and do some light browsing and stuff at the same time. These days, every time I flip it open, it is at like 61% battery. Like seriously, haven't touched it in the a week and 61%.
I want it to basically be in a deep standby and ready for use, not puttering away in the background continuously draining the battery.
@christianselig I miss the actual 10 hours of battery life. I feel like they kind of just keep listing that battery life but in practice I get less than half that. Hell, I get a full 8 hours out of my MacBook Pro and that machine is working a hell of a lot harder than the iPad ever is.
@christianselig It’s interesting how rarely I charge my iPad Air and how often I forget about it. The thing goes for weeks and weeks without being plugged in.
@craiggrannell Man that is bonkers to hear such a different report, I have 4 different iPads and my girlfriend has one as well, and none of them last 10 days haha
@christianselig Sorry, I should clarify. I’m talking about the iPad Air in the sense of the original iPad Air. That one goes on forever. The newer models? Not so much. My Pro usually conks out after a few days of sitting there doing nothing. A week at best.
@christianselig I have a development device iPad that lasts about a month in regular sleep mode, but it’s also not checking email, iMessages, signed into iCloud, etc.
@christianselig I think Apple have underestimated how important standby time on iPads is. Every time I pick up my iPad it’s flat, which only reinforces by habit of not using it. Its existence in my household is reliant on it being used at a moments notice without being constantly plugged in.
@christianselig I was starting to think it was the battery in my 2018 iPad Pro but you’re saying they all drain battery in standby now? I too remember the weeks of battery and thought they still had it 👀
@christianselig iPhones too, even a brand new one overnight loses 2% of battery.
Wish all the iDevices started consuming like they did ~10 years ago instead of pushing the envelope on what's acceptable and consume more and more energy.
@christianselig thought about exactly this earlier today, when my iPad - which I sometimes use as a second screen thanks to Sidecar but haven’t touched in a few days - still had lost 30% of its charge. maybe I have to turn it off from all connections to make it last longer…
@christianselig I’ve had inconsistent standby battery drain in my household. My child has an iPad 6th gen and the last iPad mini with a home button. We set the iPad mini up from a backup of the 6th gen which does not last more than a few days in standby. Meanwhile the mini last weeks if not months. It drains about 1% per day. My current gen Mini loses about 5% to 10% a day. My wife’s iPad Air also sips power in standby. No ryme or reason.
@christianselig I get close to a month on my iPad Pro 10” gen 2. Take into account I dont have many apps on it and tend to delete and install apps as I need them on iPad.
@christianselig I disabled all background activity on my iPad and its night and day how much longer the battery lasts. I figured I never care to get notifications from it while it is locked, and I always check things like email first on my phone, so I have no real need for it. Worth trying imo.
@brunoph I wonder if putting it to airplane mode with disabled WiFi would have similar impact. Theoretically background activities would still work but not doing much as there’s not connections to the world
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