Battery life ipad mini

captain lew wrote:

What's up, Apple?

Nothing's up. If you have a problem, return the unit to Apple for a warranty replacement.

How do you know nothing's up, Phil? If there is a software fix coming I would like to know so that I don't need to go through the trouble of returning it. If you know that this is not a software issue, then please just state it that way.

I'm not new to returning Apple products for warranty issues (2 lc575s and an Indigo iMac). I am just hoping that there is another option for this battery drain issue that someone on this forum could inform me of.

I'm still having a bit of a problem, but through some trial and error, it's a bit better.

Turn off every auto-setting/notification. The only thing I have on is my wi-fi. It'll take a bit of time to go thru all the settings. Facebook will drain this puppy in a heartbeat, if it's set to auto notify.

Turn off auto brightness, and set it about 30 to 40 percent.

If it's a feature you can do manually, shut the preset auto off. Email, Facebook, twitter, blue tooth etc and Safari use can knock down battery life 8 to 10 percent in an hour.

There does seem to be some merit to letting the battery drain completely, and then recharge completely 3-4 times.

The thing I find most disappointing about this.. Is we're sort of consumer screwed. We buy a product for the features we use most, only to find, they're not as user friendly as we've been led to believe.

Getting better battery life with lots of tweaking. Would I buy another one when this one dies? Probably not. Saving grace, it was relatively inexpensive.

I used the iPad Mini to watch a little over an hour of a video (stored on the device) last Friday afternoon. I watched the video in Airplane Mode. The battery went down to 88 or 99% after watching the video, which seemed acceptable. I pressed the sleep button and closed the case. Imagine my shock when I picked it up again yesterday and saw battery life at 6%! Again, it's still in Airplane Mode and hadn't been touched.

I charged it overnight and unplugged it to see if the problem continued. Just to make sure there wasn't something weird running in the background, I power cycled it. I left it unplugged, in Airplane Mode, and where is it now? 87%! So it takes a heckuva lot of power to do absolutely nothing. I thought the iPhone was a challenge, but at least it's *doing* something. And yes, the iPad Mini is indoors in a climate-controlled environment. I don't ever remember my original iPad being at all like this.

I work in the field with 5 other survey people. They have 4 iPad 2’s and 1 new iPad Retina. I had an iPad 2 and changed to the mini. We all use the same software and do the same job.

To date the iPad 2’s and Retina get about 8 to 9 hours of battery life. The mini I have to carry a backup battery because it is dead in 4 hours. Even with that I have to run back to my car in the afternoon to plug it in to charge because both the internal and backup are used up. My collages continue working without a battery issue.

I am on my 3rd mini. The 1st one we reloaded the OS twice and it didn't help so they gave me a new one. The second one they did the same thing and and I walked out with a new mini. The 3rd one they just gave me another mini without reloading the OS. Apple replaces their equipment without question if it’s in the 1^st 14 days of the purchase.

I travel a lot so I went to 2 different stores. One was in Salt Lake City 3 times and the other in Denver once. At both stores they told me they were unaware of the battery life issue. Although they have given me 3 new mini’s they still haven’t fixed the issue. I finally gave up and purchased a backup battery so I can do my job. It is really sad that Apple doesn’t acknowledge there is a battery life issue for the iPad mini.

If anyone is thinking of buying a mini they better think about battery life. Unless they are sitting next to a charger I wouldn’t buy one.

hello everyone! i am new here! i have to say i am enjoying my ipad mini to the max. i had the same problem. after i updated to 6.1.3 os. my battery life was phenomenal to almost crappy and only lasted 6 hours continuous usage. i made a mistake of letting it drain first (old habits from nokia phones) what i did was not to let the battery drain and charge it at 20%. the picture i posted is actual measurement time. i played a high def weather app with video and let my ipad drain. actually i may be wrong the 11 hours started at around 85% after 3 hours of game play in the first day

Ipad mini 32GB wifi-LTE.battery life on wifi,just more then 6 hours ,if not playing games.On LTE,its like bugatti veyron,100% of charge,5hours later,plugged in back.really dissapoint as my 4th gen ipad pushing for 15-17 houra of the same routine.