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What browser other than Safari is the most battery efficient on iPad?

I use DuckDuckGo browser, which also has a unique YouTube player that avoids most ads….. good luck 👍🏻
 
I've tried a few, using Brave, Edge and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
I always seem to return to Safari but its good to have alternatives when Safari acts up.

Not sure how power efficient they are tho
 
SnowCrocodile said:
However there are other things that make browsers different.
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There certainly are.

I'm not aware of anyone who's made a browser that the primary (or even a major) goal is "battery efficiency." That is, of course, a major goal for Apple. So, I'd expect if you DID find such a browser, it would by necessity be less-capable than Safari overall.

Curious if you find anything but in the meantime.... I'm happy with Safari ;)
 
FreakinEurekan said:
There certainly are.

I'm not aware of anyone who's made a browser that the primary (or even a major) goal is "battery efficiency." That is, of course, a major goal for Apple. So, I'd expect if you DID find such a browser, it would by necessity be less-capable than Safari overall.

Curious if you find anything but in the meantime.... I'm happy with Safari ;)
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Agreed, Safari is very battery efficient for me. Allows me to get spec screen-on time for my iPhones. I’ve actually fully tested this with Xʀ on iOS 12.

I wouldn’t have been able to get 18h 32 min of screen-on time from 100% to 0% if Safari were inefficient. It’s part of the suite of apps that allow this to happen. This is unlike, say, video-heavy social media apps.

I don’t know how much more efficient OP wants, but the only app I can think of is iBooks. With this regular light usage, I ran one test back when my 9.7-inch iPad Pro was on iOS 9, before Apple forced it into iOS 12. With my efficient suite of apps, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro was consistently at the 14 hours of SOT mark. Maybe 13.5. Maybe 14.5. But it was there. I went for a 100-0% runtime test just reading books on iBooks, and it got me 21 hours 40 minutes of screen-on time.

My 16 Plus, my 11th-gen iPad, and my iPad Air 5 are probably capable of beating that with the same regular light usage that got me 14 hours on iOS 9 (about 10-11 on iOS 12 after the forced update, sadly), but so far I’ve never actually used them that long within a cycle. 21 hours and 40 minutes of SOT, tested with iBooks on my 9.7-inch iPad Pro on iOS 9 back in 2017 remains my single-cycle runtime record. It doesn’t get more efficient than that.
 
Browsers with the worst efficiency are the one that do not block ads and trackers from websites as well as tracking your activity such as Chrome.

Safari, Orion, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Vivaldi, Firefox should do well in term of efficiency.
 
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