All iPads Should i turn off wifi every half an hour or an hour that i dont use my ipad?

[Alundra]

Or does it auto disconnect like android to save battery?

 

[Tyler23]

Or does it auto disconnect like android to save battery?

You'll waste more battery waking the iPad than by just leaving wifi on.

Don't worry about micro-managing your battery.

 

[herdnerfer]

Nope, if you lose it or someone steals it, you'll lose your only hope of tracking it down.

 

[Marrakas]

Not worth the hassle imo, it's not that big of a battery hog.

 

[Nhwhazup]

I leave mine connected. I have no complaints about battery life.

 

[deeddawg]

I never mess with wifi on/off on my iphones or ipads. Not enough effect in my experience to justify worrying about it.

 

[v0lume4]

I believe that it auto-disconnects after a given length of time.

 

[doboy]

You already get 10+ hours on the iPad. Not worth the hassle to save slightly more battery (maybe).

 

[xraydoc]

If you disconnect it, you won't get email or push notifications and your Newsstand items won't auto-download, nor will your iCloud backups run.

 

[GoingDark]

On my retina iPad mini I can go almost a full week of standby and about 16 hours of screen time without having to charge the battery, and that's with both WiFi+LTE on. You don't need to worry about managing battery life on it like you would with a phone.

 

[SHirsch999]

Or does it auto disconnect like android to save battery?

Are you really worried about battery life on an iPad??

 

[rajpatel]

Life is too short for OCD crap like turning off wifi periodically to save battery.

Do u use these devices or are these devices using YOU?

Sounds like da latter

 

[darngooddesign]

Life is too short for OCD crap like turning off wifi periodically to save battery.

Do u use these devices or are these devices using YOU?

Sounds like da latter

Life is to short to call non-OCD things OCD.

OP, you won't get better battery life turning wifi off, but you will get better battery life if you turn off "Ask to join networks".

 

[FrankB1191]

My HTC One phone looses about 40% battery overnight with wifi on, and 3% with wifi off. My iPad Air looses about 5% overnight with wifi on, and streaming Pandora via Bluetooth. Don't bother with managing the iPad battery.

 

[darngooddesign]

Alundra, why not test for yourself?

Compare how much your battery % decreases overnight with your wifi on and off.

 

[Donka]

I used to only turn Wifi on as required on my first couple of iPads. I then just started leaving Wifi enabled all the time and never noticed any appreciable drop in battery life and it was worth the convenience. I think IOS7 will cause a more noticeable drop in battery life due to the additional standby functionality like background app refreshing etc. but I haven't had the need to actually measure it as battery life is still great.

 

[tandeh]

try every 15mins, LOL,