Help! My new iPad with retina display is sucking up the battery charge far faster than the iPad 2. Anyone else having this issue? It reminds me of the same issue on the iPhone 4 when it was released.
No, definitely not. Could there be some change in push notifications going on? Or are you watching heavy amounts of video? My battery life has been the same as my last iPad.
Depend on what you are doing, I suppose. Started today with a full charge, have been using it for a variety of tasks, including some video viewing, and I'm still at 70%. Doesn't appear to be to far off for what I got on my old 1st gen iPad.
My battery is fine (now) as well.
Chappsnet wrote:
Help! My new iPad with retina display is sucking up the battery charge far faster than the iPad 2. Anyone else having this issue? It reminds me of the same issue on the iPhone 4 when it was released.
Mine isnt. Depends on what you are doing with it. I just surf and email at the moment.
No, I'm keeping app usage to a minimum - I've hardly had any time to use it at all since Friday. I'm afraid to use it too much when I'm out and about with it, as you can just watch the battery drain. I've got the display set around 50%, and haven't watched any video on it yet. The only thing I've really used is the Kindle app. But it doesn't matter what's open or closed - it just drains like a sink.
I've just surfed a bit, done a bit of email and Facebook, and a little bit of Kindle reading. Draining so fast that I couldn't possibly use it for more than three hours of reading, max.
Reset the the iPad
Tried that a couple of times. No difference. I can shut down all apps, put it in sleep mode and come back a couple of hours later, and it'll be down by over 25%.
Go into settings,then email contacts calanders , make sure fetch new data is off, hit that arrow to go into its settings and make sure push is off and fetch new data is set to mauall. This should help
Just did that - same routine as when 5.0 came out and a lot of our iPhones were sucking up juice like crazy. Just the last half hour of reading via the Kindle app drained the battery by 13%. And that was the only open app. I can frequently go a couple of days between charges on my iPad 2, but this won't go half a day without my having to plug it in. I really do depend on push email - so I'm hoping that this issue is fixable.
Turn off all Push Notifications, locations and other automatic stuff that you do not need. That will save some juice.
Using the battery level meter in this manner is comparable to using your car's fuel gauge to calculate miles per gallon. The only thing that matters is the total amount of operating time from full charge to auto-shutdown (ignore any low level alerts that may appear).
An irony is that doing a test (per the above procedure) to determine the total operating time is also the exact procedure necessary to calibrate the battery level meter.
I'm not claiming that you do not have a problem. I am stating, however, that we don't yet know whether or not a battery problem exists.
I had the same problem until my daughter found I had Autolock set to "Never". Try the following:
Click on "Settings"/General/Autolock and set Autolock to 2 minutes, press "Home" button, restart your iPad by turning it completely off for a few seconds and then turn it on again, start it up by pressing the Home button and going to the main screen, wait over two minutes to see if it goes to sleep on its own (screen will go black). I hope this works for you.
Vernon
Actually, I do. I did a basic back of the napkin calculation yesterday, taking it from 100% charged (it charged overnight) to automatic shutdown, 'cause it had run out of juice. It was between 3.75 and 4.5 hours (I forgot to keep track of one use but estimated it).
This is pretty bad. Using the Kindle app actually increases the battery drain. I've tried turning that off, thinking it might be a malfunctioning app, but ... it's still too much of a rapid drain.
Wish that were the case, Vernon (that was my grandfather's name - rare to see it these days) - but that was a good call. It's set for 2 minutes already, and it does work. 😟
New iPad requires 3 charges a day!
