Do you leave your iPad plugged in while you work?

[jamface]

I tend to leave it charging while I'm working, that way when i come home from work (I'm a tree surgeon), I can pick it up and use it, knowing that it's not likely to run out of juice.

 

[K1221n]

I keep it plugged in if I'm going to be doing something demanding like gaming (pubg) or some other demanding app.

In one other thread I mentioned that when I work on my desk, I keep my 12.9" iPad plugged in. I was wondering if anyone else did that? And also - do you think that can be detrimental or beneficial to battery health?

 

[max2]

In one other thread I mentioned that when I work on my desk, I keep my 12.9" iPad plugged in. I was wondering if anyone else did that? And also - do you think that can be detrimental or beneficial to battery health?

Yes.

 

[Jonathantuba]

Yes, most days I leave plugged in. As I often use the iPad for 11-12 hours a day, it would not last out without being plugged in at least part of the day.

 

[Digitalguy]

I have quite a few ipads and most of them are plugged in most of the time. It's generally better for the battery. Not so much the fact of being plugged in and not running out of the battery, but because it avoids deep discharges (under 20-30%), which is what deteriorates battery cells more. I only unplug them when I move them around the house (which I do quite a bit), but always plugged them back when I am done. At night they generally all sleep plugged in.

 

[Aydy]

Has anyone tested battery health for iPads consistently hooked to a power supply? Unfortunately I don’t have a Mac for coconut battery but could be interesting to see if the battery health would fare better or worse. Theoretically, the health should remain near 100% due to lack cycling, charge/discharge but what about trickle charge, overcurrent etc. Might this have a negative impact over time?

 

[Digitalguy]

I think an ipad 100% plugged in for a long time is pretty unrealistic, but what I have checked is battery wear vs cycles and the 2 measures might be very different. I have bought ipads that had 100 cycles but had a much larger battery wear than ipads with 250 cycles. And knowing whom I bought from I know why.... Those 100 cycles were reached with deep discharges (so little more than 100 almost full recharges), while the 250 cylces were of an ipad used daily for 2 years (and charged at night) so probably 500-600 (more or less) half recharges. In the first case the battery wear was around 15% while in the second only 6%. So the correlation between cycles and wear is far from perfect. The battery of an ipad left dead for several days or weeks can wear much more than the one of an ipad regularly used and recharged for months.

 

[0989382]

It sits on the desk at work, plugged in whilst I do work PC tasks. I used to avoid charging it at home but if I want it to backup / sync big lots with iCloud it needs to be plugged in overnight with my home WiFi though

Leaving it plugged in no longer harms batteries like it might have in the mid 2000s