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iPad Pro 9.7 iPad Pro battery life results
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Hmmm. What is your brightness on? Mine is usually 50% or lower because I find the screen much brighter than the iPad Air 2's.
Hrm. My battery even after its first full charge is behaving a little dodgy. I keep my screen brightness at 1/4 and it's on track for maybe 6-7 hrs usage 
You can switch off cellular with the Airplane mode and than switch only Wifi on again if you don't need cellular. That saves a lot of battery...
iOS battery reporting is an inconsistent mess. On my old iPad 3 would report 2 days of "usage" even if I barely touched it.
Now this new tablet (wifi only, strong signal) is dropping a percent every 2-3 minutes even just browsing this forum at low brightness and is likely going to get almost half of the advertised battery life.
Today my battery was very good (only just scraped past the 10 hours, a day after receiving it) I got:
Usage - 13 hours
Standby - 27 hours 20 mins
Still had 16% left at this point so I reckon I'd of got maybe another hour and a bit out of the remaining charge.
Usage - 13 hours
Standby - 27 hours 20 mins
Still had 16% left at this point so I reckon I'd of got maybe another hour and a bit out of the remaining charge.
I think it really depends on what you're doing. I don't trust the actual battery percentage too much, it's not a very linear rate. I get the feeling that having my brightness set at 80% or so and using notability really impacts the battery life. Typically my brightness is somewhere between 50 and 80% I honestly don't really pay attention to it. I just set it to what's comfortable to use.
I have yet to run it dead before bedtime. I'm going to charge it every night either way so I don't really know why people get all caught up in the exact length of time they get out of it. I feel like 10 hours is probably a good round number. Maybe I'll get more sometimes, maybe I'll get less.
My iPad Pro is down to about 40% after a day of teaching, which for today comprised about 3 hours of AirPlay mirroring while annotating on PDFs in notability, plus 1.5 hours of PDF annotation while it is hooked up to a VGA projector. Mine is the cellular version.
Pretty fair, I would say. The Apple Pencil is certainly paying for itself here.
Pretty fair, I would say. The Apple Pencil is certainly paying for itself here.
Not unless you are using cellular. I use mine mainly in WiFi but I do notice when I have to switch to cellular the battery does take a bigger hit. I would expect it to do so.
Overall the battery in my 9.7 is a none issue.
I would be curious to see them both tested with Cellular service and without.