MichelPM

Q: Large iPad Pro Video Watching and Battery Life.

I thought I'd post this for users of the Large iPad Pro as this observation is rather significant one.

 

My wife and I spent this past Saturday watching online videos from YouTube streamed from my iPad Pro to our 50 inch LG Plasma TV connected via HDMI using the Apple Lightning digital AV adapter.

 

My iPad Pro was charged to 100% was solely operating all day on the iPad Pro's battery, we were watching content from 8;30 AM to 9;30 PM and can report that after 12 hours of video streaming, my iPad still reported that its battery still had 30% life left.

With my iPad Pro on Night Shift mode, I spent the rest on the evening on and off online doing other things on my iPad Pro like answering posts here, doing some digital magazine reading, emails and looking through and organising my image/photo library using the Photos app and my photo/image organisation app, HD Photo Sort.

I got over 16 hours of battery life from my iPad Pro before I exhausted by iPad's battery and drained it until my iPad Pro shut  down.

 

Usually, when doing normal work, like drawing, sketching, image/photo editing or working on documents, as well as doing some online activities, I am lucky to get between 7-9 hours of battery and, usually, charge my iPad Pro when it gets to 5 percent.

I haven't ever, NEVER, until now,  gotten 10 hours or over 10 hours of iPad operation from ANY of my iPads!

 

I have found, recently, that both Safari and my other 3rd party web browser eat up the most battery and memory usages.

I, also, found that my third party web browser has its own, independent, screen brightness setting, so I am going to set this screen brightness level lower some and see if battery life improves.

 

I would like to get another solid, one more hour of battery life and get a full 10 hours of battery operation.

iPad, iOS 9.3.5, iPad Pro 128 GB Wifi

Posted on Oct 9, 2016 8:58 PM