Ipad4 battery drain 30% in 2 hour

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Ipad4 battery drain 30% in 2 hour

Today, as I was streaming a movie, i decide to check how much battery it drain, as I have being getting drain issue.

i played a goose bump movie from online streaming site. it was 54% when I started to watch and after 2 hours or maybe 10-15 min more it was at 23%.

i used wifi,

90% brightness ( I normally use 20-30% for everything else including YouTube ) I use 80%- 90% to experience proper colours .

volume set around 50-80% depends of the screen through wired headphones

no back app is on

I was not charging at that time. ( while charging my iPad get really hot)

i don't have any background app On, notification is mostly off, except Siri and gesture I keep them on rest i try to follow battery drain advice.

email also don't refresh or Facebook etc.

how is this drain too much, as I believe it is.

and Apple store havnt arrived in my country properly yet. But we can find all the product of apple here.

so what should I do?

iPad 4-OTHER, iOS 10.3.2

Posted on Jun 25, 2017 7:08 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 26, 2017 11:39 AM in response to umar_1

Apple claims "up to 10 hours" of usage for all iPads, including your iPad 4. I'd say 8 hours is typical. Watch the Usage time at the bottom of the Battery window, and see how long it takes to drop to 10%, say. If it takes 6-7 hours, then you're doing fine.

Try posting a new question for your keyboard problems, so people with answers might see it. The first step would be to restart the iPad though. It fixes a lot of glitches.

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umar_1 Author

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Jun 25, 2017 8:31 AM in response to Diana.McCall

Yes but that nto much of help, as it don't tell what I need to know.

Are you you sure about the percentage as I though it was high % ,

even on browsering, surfing only I found the drain is high,

any idea where I can get idea how much should 1 % drop in how many min with doing what.

i mostly use safari on iPad.

and I do have issues that when usig it iPad own keyboard for anything, example, as I am typing, it freezes for few seconds, same on Facebook and other and when it's freezes it sometprimes write wrong or skip my words.

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umar_1 Author

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Jul 1, 2017 12:47 AM in response to Diana.McCall

I'm am clocking around 5-7 hours , if I watch two movies of 2 hours each at 80-90% brightness and 50-80% volume. And rest at 20-30% brightness n no volume for browsing , and some game with some headphones volume at 20-50% before i charge it at 15-20%.

all on wifi, as this is wifi iPad only.

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Answer 4

Jul 1, 2017 3:27 AM in response to umar_1

That sounds a little low, but it does include 4 hours of movie streaming, which is pretty intensive continuous processing. When you do most things, the CPU is virtually idle much of the time. When you stream a movie, both the CPU and WiFi are running all the time, so this is a heavy drain on the battery.

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Jul 1, 2017 5:55 AM in response to Diana.McCall

These days as I have iPad to myself, summer vacation 🙂

don't watch movie back to back, and I do take a min or two break now duringthe movie as either it is loading in between or headphone hurting my ears so I remove them. (As my internal speaker isnt powerful as it once was).

oh and the movies I was streaming mostly at 720p version, as I think a single movie will take one more hour if I go forv1080p... even though I have 20mbps shared brandwidth.

i will be catching up on my tv shows too. But I will watch them at 480p. Do u think it will matter??

as u see it might have taken me to write this on safari , with wifi on, at 20% brightness. No volume and no background app on or location or any kind of app , and it have drain 2%.

i do believe drain it little faster, as u may coming to the conclusion as well.. but i think it happening more after iOS 10.

oh!!!

thqnk you so much for helping out, and I would had taken to Apple Store, if they were offically here. Even I can purchase app in my currency now.

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Answer 6

Jul 1, 2017 6:55 AM in response to umar_1

I'd just like to observe that playing movies in lower resolution isn't likely to reduce battery usage much. It may reduce the WiFi data, but the CPU will still be running flat out converting the compressed video stream into viewable pixels.

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Answer 7

Jun 25, 2017 8:01 AM in response to umar_1

Hi. That actually sounds about right. Video streaming is pretty intensive, compared to browsing or reading email. You know you can monitor battery usage in Settings > Battery.

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umar_1 Author

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Jun 26, 2017 11:40 AM in response to Diana.McCall

Thank you. I will try it once. But I guess it depends on usage. I will try tomorrow and see how long it took

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umar_1 Author

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Jul 1, 2017 5:56 AM in response to Diana.McCall

And in idle mode with no wifi on, and sleep mode, I hardly saw it drain. Will check tonight.

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