I've noticed that my iPad 2 takes quite a bit longer to charge than my iPhone 6, hours longer. If the iPad is run down to 30% it may take 6 hours to bring it back to 100%. Is this normal?
Phones do charge faster however 6 hours from 30% to 100% sounds excessive to me. Are you using the iPad charger and not the iPhone charger? Big difference between the two.
Are you using the iPhone cable to charge it? If so, then it will take a lot longer to charge it than if you are using the iPad charger.
Here is a User Tip by fellow Support Community member Lawrence Finch that should help:
Everything you wanted to know about charging your iPhone or iPad
Cheers,
GB
I can't tell the iPad charger from the iPhone charger, they all look the same to me, little white cubes with a usb socket. I have so many cables and they all look the same too. You would think that they would be marked if they were different. I have so many Apple products that I have a whole basket full of chargers and cables. They all look the same to me.
The iPhone charger looks nothing like the iPad charger. The iPad charger is about three times bigger and a completely different shape.
Good morning Ken, I agree with you - I think it would be a good idea if they were marked.
I just took a picture which I hope will help. The charger on the left is the iPhone charger, a little square looking cube and smaller. The charger on the right is the iPad charger, bigger and of different shape. While you can use either to charge your iPad, the smaller one will take substantially longer. Also fyi, you can use the iPad charger for the iPhone, it will not hurt the phone as it self-regulates the current but it will not charge it much faster, it is just a convenience if you are traveling and can manage with one vs. two.
Best.... 🙂
On the charger itself, you will see the wattage. It's light gray, so get out your magnifying glass if you are older than 50....
GB
gail from maine wrote:
get out your magnifying glass if you are older than 50....
Hmmm, even if younger than 50 I would say..... 🙂 🙂 🙂
😁😝😁
GB
That's strange. First I've ever seen of a charger like the hat. I don't remember my iPad coming with a charger like that. It looks like an old Mac power source. I'll lok into this and may wind up buying one on eBay. I bought my iPad 2 new and don't remember anything like this.
Ken, here is the Apple brand, $19. Check the compatibility, ok for iPad 2, one of those should be around somewhere...
Thank You, I am well on my way to resolving this problem now, thanks to the help received here.
Ken
My pleasure.
Lawrence Finch wrote an article at Everything you wanted to know about charging your iPhone or iPad . Theoretically this is a great article and I know many people in internet thank him for his explanation. Unfortunately he missed out something - the facts!
Finch said:
If it takes your iPad charger (2.1A) 5 hours to charge up your iPad with the iPhone charger (1.0A) it will take 10 hours to charge it because it is about 1/2 the watts and amps.
I did a lab test using a current meter and it showed that Finch was wrong about the statement above.
When you charge an iPad Air with an iPad charger (2.1A), the current flowing into the iPad is NOT 2.1A. You will get not more than 1.6A when your iPad's battery is almost flat. But Finch assumed that the current is 2.1A. The iPad charger is just a transformer and techinically it shouldn't be called a charger. The actual charger is residing in your iPhone/iPad and it is the one that is regulating the power. I do not know why, but the iPad is only allowing less than 1.6A entering it (and not 2.1A).
Is it normal for an iPad to take longer to charge than an iPhone?
