How's your iPad battery life?

[rsted222]

Mine doesn't seem to be as good as the original. For instance, my son played with it for about 3 hours straight on a recent car trip and it showed 30% life (from 100%). Is this normal?

 

[hoanganh]

Mine doesn't seem to be as good as the original. For instance, my son played with it for about 3 hours straight on a recent car trip and it showed 30% life (from 100%). Is this normal?

depends on what app u were using. 3D games make battery run out faster! (about 15-20%/hour, i think!)

 

[porcupine8]

Was the brightness turned way up because of glare from the sun in the car? High brightness is a sure battery sucker.

 

[rsted222]

I think the brightness was way up

Was the brightness turned way up because of glare from the sun in the car? High brightness is a sure battery sucker.

Good tip

 

[Bacong]

Great. I have everything turned on (push, brightness 100%) and I could leave this thing unplugged for 3-4 days before I needed to plug it in again. Heavy usage at these settings wield at least 6 hours of usage.

 

[Rdclark]

Unbelievable. I mostly use it for browsing, email, iPod music, a little bit of YouTube and maybe some Angry Birds. Getting 10 hours on a charge, or more. I keep the brightness down. Mostly wifi, but some 3G. I generally charge it every other day.

 

[Medium Rare]

Our battery power drops about 10 % per hour. Seems about right... 10 hour battery life lasts 10 hours. Brightness is at about 40 % + all other unnecessary stuff is shut down.

 

[Jasmynp]

Battery life on my ipad is pretty good. I use it a lot during the day (websites, note taking, youtube, BT keyboard) and I can get about a day and a half out of it without charging. By that time I'm down to about 20%. I usually put it in airplane mode when I'm not using it. That seems to save a lot of the battery.

 

[Gav2k]

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10-14 hours

 

[patrickj]

My iPad 2 is generally stellar, but feels a tad worse since the iOS 4.3.3 update. I haven't measured and am not 100% sure, but it feels like it dipped a bit since that update.

 

[club1820]

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10-14 hours

how do you manage that?

 

[mayflower]

It is OK

 

[gigemzach]

Seems to have improved since the beginning. Absolutely love it.

 

[benchlegs]

MIne is great. It was probably the biggest reason I bought the ipad. You just gotta have good battery life and the iPad is the BEST!