iPad Air Battery Long Charging

[orr971]

Hello there!
I recently bought an iPad Air (Yesterday, WiFi, 32GB). It's a wonderful wonderful tablet. It also has a great battery that is surprisingly long lasting. But, I noticed that it takes a long time to charge it. I was on like 55-65% battery and I plugged the charger and measured about 1 hour and 10 minutes and it only got to 85%! Now maybe that's normal and if it is I'm okay with it cuz it does have a great battery, and maybe it comes with a "price" of long charging.

But I wanted to ask anyways, is it normal?

My brother bought the same iPad like me the same day and he also have this issue.

 

[Shawnxie920]

Yes. That's completely normal.

 

[orr971]

Yes. That's completely normal.

Thank you.

 

[stazi34]

Hello there!
I recently bought an iPad Air (Yesterday, WiFi, 32GB). It's a wonderful wonderful tablet. It also has a great battery that is surprisingly long lasting. But, I noticed that it takes a long time to charge it. I was on like 55-65% battery and I plugged the charger and measured about 1 hour and 10 minutes and it only got to 85%! Now maybe that's normal and if it is I'm okay with it cuz it does have a great battery, and maybe it comes with a "price" of long charging.

But I wanted to ask anyways, is it normal?

My brother bought the same iPad like me the same day and he also have this issue.

From experience, i noticed that if you use a cheap cable or charger, it doesnt charge as fast as the one that comes in the box or a similar quality charger, please use those!

 

[orr971]

From experience, i noticed that if you use a cheap cable or charger, it doesnt charge as fast as the one that comes in the box or a similar quality charger, please use those!

I use my original cable and AC plug. One time I used an original AC plug with a not original cable (I think it wasn't). It was maybe a little slower but it's a a little slow in the original too.

 

[Night Spring]

I use my original cable and AC plug. One time I used an original AC plug with a not original cable (I think it wasn't). It was maybe a little slower but it's a a little slow in the original too.

I'd say it takes about 4-4:30 hours for iPad to charge from 0 to 100. So 1 hour to charge 20-25% sounds about normal.

 

[orr971]

I'd say it takes about 4-4:30 hours for iPad to charge from 0 to 100. So 1 hour to charge 20-25% sounds about normal.

Yeah I just thought it is not normal because it takes a lot less time to charge my iPhone 5.

 

[Tyler23]

Yeah I just thought it is not normal because it takes a lot less time to charge my iPhone 5.

Yeah, because the iPhone battery is much smaller..