So what’s the verdict? 4 vs 5 battery life? Still no tests. Only one YouTube video dedicated a few seconds to this, suggesting 10 for the 4 and 8.5 for the 5. No idea how that was derived however. But no one looks to have tested this definitively still!
Getting correct battery life assessments for iPads online is extremely difficult, if not impossible. For iPhones, you have battery life screenshots threads for every model, for which, after reviewing hundreds of screenshots with many different usage patterns, you can get an accurate assessment. For instance, I know I typically get more battery life than the vast majority of users, because I am a very light user with my main usage pattern. I can extrapolate my model’s internet results to the new iPhone model and get a pretty accurate idea.
Nobody shares any iPad results, so doing that is completely impossible. The only battery life results I’ve seen are those in which people complain because battery life is abhorrent, and, typically, that is due to full brightness, which throws results very off the mark and makes them irrelevant (for me).
I‘ve repeatedly seen comments saying “well, why do you want other people’s results, when every single usage pattern is different?”, which is not exactly accurate: by extrapolating the patterns in screen-on time difference between models, you can get, I’d dare to say, an extremely accurate idea. It’s very helpful, but iPads are nowhere to be found.
You only have YouTube tests, heavy, continuous runtime. Those tests are irrelevant and incorrect. They never match normal usage patterns; thus, they cannot be extrapolated. Even the percentage difference between models is irrelevant: again, they never extrapolate correctly.
