iPad M1 iPad Pro 5 years on

[Kal Madda]

Awesome, then we are using them the same way. Have a work-issued MacBook Pro, but maybe personal computing device has been my main and daily driver since I got it. Then you are confirming what I was thinking already.

Awesome, I’m glad I could be helpful! 🙂👍🏻

 

[Ctrlos]

What functions are lagging? I just tried the new update on my a14 air and it seems ok. Not trying to do the My Pc DoEsN’T hAvE any ProBlEMs thing. Just wondering what specifically is lagging. I know some folk who use iwork a lot so might warn them

I have a 40 page document with lots of images. On the old version it ran flawlessly. Now just scrolling up and down the page list is a crawl.

 

[RLRabb]

I’ve just received the iPad Pro today. Overall, it works well. However, it was a refurbished model and so the battery isn’t the best. CoconutBattery reports just above 80% health. I started it with 90% charge, and after a few hours it was at 50%. Not great but also not terrible—I’ve experienced worse. The top of the display looks a little worn, too, like it’s lost a bit of color, but it’s only visible when viewing the white pages of sheet music, and isn’t that significant.

I was contemplating returning it for another one, but I just think that’s too much of a hassle, between me not being near any FedEx store, and me possibly having to pay for the shipping, box, etc. There’s a local shop that does battery replacements, and I’ve used them for my previous MacBook and previous iPhone. They do it for about $50 cheaper than Apple. My nearest Apple Store is also 150 miles away so that’s not viable.

Others I’ve asked have suggested to immediately return it, but I just think it’s not worth it. I don’t even know if I’m going to be able to find another one at a similar price if I do. And, it’s far easier (and maybe even cheaper) to just have the battery replaced. If I do indeed change my mind and decide to return it, I have 29 more days.

Anyway, those are my thoughts.

Doesn’t sound like there is anything “refurbished” about your device. Sounds like you just bought a used ipad.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

I'm using the 6th gen iPad Pro 12,9 with I believe 1 TB and I think it does run relatively well on iPadOS 26 (except of the catastrophic mess that it is), the Home Screen however does lag now. And I have transparency reduced.

As for the battery life, I'll have to see. But obviously, Liquid ass is using real-time processing power to create this effect, so no matter how you turn it around, it's irrational and less functional than it was before. It's using energy for… well, for this visual effect 🫠

I'm starting to compare Apple to a Dodge RAM: It uses more energy, but yet, it's slower. So slowly but surely, Apple is going MAGA I think. Rationalist philosophy is post-peak, while irrationalist flatulences gain traction.

 

[jerry78]

Still using my iPad Air，It's the same as the M1, and it still feels good.
It’s aged surprisingly well — performance is still more than enough for real work.
Like you said, having capture, edit, and sharing all on one device removes a lot of friction.

 

[FeliApple]

My M1 iPad Air is running beautifully well. I’m typing this with it. It’s a bit of a special device for me because it’s perhaps the culmination of the iOS setup I’ve always wanted, a full-screen iPad and a full-screen iPhone.

I don’t care how old my devices are as long as they work, but after using an iPhone Xʀ for so many years the home button and bezels of my 9.7-inch iPad Pro were becoming a little too much for me.

The device is running (and will run) its factory version from when I bought it, iPadOS 15.6. I use it for web browsing, with the Apple Pencil, for sports streaming, for content streaming apps like Netflix, for note-taking. Everything works supremely well, as good as any newest device, as it is running its original version.

The one aspect that’s always been poor for the first time in my iOS history and I have no idea why, is standby battery life. @rui no onna, you mentioned that standby battery drain was between 10-25%/day. I’m not sure mine is close to that, especially not 25%, but it’s poor enough that it’s massively noticeable, and it is significantly worse than anything that came before or after. It is worse than my decade-old 9.7-inch iPad Pro that’s not even running its original version (iOS 12 instead of iOS 9).

I have always been able to optimise battery life to draw the maximum possible battery life. No amount of optimisation has been enough to make it good. It’s just awful and I don’t know why.

That said, screen-on time is amazing. Now I’m at 2.5 hours of SOT with 92% remaining, but I unplugged it 4 hours ago, so fairly continuous use. To test battery life, I’ve even gone as far as powering it off before prolonged periods of standby (6 hours or more), because it would drop enough to make the test worthless. Again, I have no clue why.

Even so, I’ve gotten close to 4 hours with 90% remaining. Weird things with standby also happen: The iPad was on standby for about two hours and it inexplicably dropped from 96% to 94%, which is appalling. Maybe I now leave it and it drops nothing for five hours. It’s just difficult to explain, but in any case, the average drop is far worse than what I’m used to. This has been the case since I bought it (August 2022)

Apart from standby, it’s running flawlessly. The Apple Pencil 2 is great too. I also love iPadOS 15, I even prefer the older font for the Lock Screen clock.

Here. It’s far better, right?

 

[Cheffy Dave]

Just a check in really with anyone else still running the M1 iPad Pro since its 2021 release?

Mine has been a faithful companion over the last 5 years, my work computer away from work. I know many people don’t see the iPad as a workhorse yet mine gets shoehorned into all sorts of tasks from LiDAR scanning locations to editing videos of experiments. Being able to record in 4K on the 0.5x camera, edit and share all from the one device reduces so much friction.

Yes,Love my M1, ordered it with 2TB memory, this thing is a rocket. I have a new MBA M4, just to replace my 2013 MBA, but it gets minimal use, my 13” IPP does everything fast! It may die someday? I will just order another with 2TB