Battery life ipad mini

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.

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.

No. But if you are, may I recommend checking out this website to help resolve it?

About iPad Batteries

What do you mean by poor?

Yeah. Me too. I don't know what should i do with this freaking weird battery life? Not even an hour, i think my battery life has decreased almos 40%. How's that? Apple please help me!!!

captain lew wrote:

What's up, Apple?

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