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iPad Battery App
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I don't believe there are Mac apps that can assess the battery of iPads. You'd have to check battery health on the iPad itself. It's in Settings.
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How to check battery health and history on your iPad - Apple Support
Find out how to check battery health, the date of manufacturing and first use, and the cycle count of the battery in your iPad.
I don't believe there are Mac apps that can assess the battery of iPads. You'd have to check battery health on the iPad itself. It's in Settings.
How to check battery health and history on your iPad - Apple Support
Find out how to check battery health, the date of manufacturing and first use, and the cycle count of the battery in your iPad.
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The option to check iPad battery health in settings is only available on the latest generation of iPads.
I doubt there’s an iPad app that can check Mac battery health though.
that is not completely true - depending on the iPad version there are Apple Shortcut scripts which will wrangle the info for battery health like cycles etc. from the log files - for the last 3 iPadOS versions for sure.
Note, I specifically mentioned the Battery Health option in Settings. That one’s new for iPad. Been available for iPhones since #batterygate.
I know about the iOS Shortcuts. Those have been around for quite a while, too. They’re not exactly easily accessible though and you have to manually feed them the log files. There was actually a change in log files like iOS 15 or something so the older battery health shortcuts didn’t work.
By the way, up to iOS 8 or 9, I think apps were allowed to check the log files so there were actually apps available on the App Store that can show battery health.
Just to clarify - I'm looking for an iPad app that can tell me the status of my MBP battery percentage while it's sleeping. Not looking for an iPad battery app. Basically something that can work across multiple devices - if possible.
Have a 8th gen iPad and 2019 MBP - both running current OS respectively.
Have a 8th gen iPad and 2019 MBP - both running current OS respectively.
The Find My app.
Assuming you have “Find My” enabled on the MacBook and both devices are on the same Apple ID.
Open “Find My” on the iPad, go to the “Devices” tab and choose your MacBook from the list. You should be able to see its battery charge percentage in there.
Just checked mine, it indeed works when the MacBook is sleeping.
CloudBattery or whatever was supposed to be able to do that I think but my personal experience wasn’t good at all the two times I’ve tried it. But it it got an Apple Choice Award or whatever. Maybe the paid version is reliable.
Exactly what I was looking for - thanks so much!!! Wish it showed actual percentage number as the battery icon is small but it's good enough to remind me when to charge my MBP (which I don't use everyday).
Cheers!
UPDATE: The MBP battery doesn't show on days it isn't used. The iPhone shows the iPad battery life and the iPad shows the iPhone battery life but neither show the MBP battery life. Perhaps there's a setting on the MBP that's not on - but it doesn't work unless I open the MBP.