iPad feature I'd love: deep sleep. I find whenever I go a few days or a week between using an iPad, it's often dead or almost dead. An auto-deep sleep mode after 24 hours of non-use would be awesome, even if it took 5 seconds or so to wake back up
@christianselig I’ve got a handy shortcut I set to auto run on my iPad when it drops below 30%. Sets low power mode and creates a reminder to charge the ipad (which syncs and fires a min later. Then see the notification on some other device).
@christianselig I have the ipad air 5 and I think it’s definitely feasible for me to reach 1 month, maybe more, granted I do disable wifi when I’m done using the device cause it dramatically improves standby.
@christianselig@mikahsargent Perhaps Mikah and @rosemary could show how to build power saving shortcuts automations on iOS Today if they haven’t already.
I think there might also be some prebuilt shortcuts on RoutineHub that you could take a look at and adapt to your usage.
@christianselig it’s rogue software on the iPad or iOS bugs. Terrible battery life on mine, fully wiped it and started from scratch, now it lasts in standby for weeks.
@christianselig I tend to keep my iPad in AirPlane mode, and it helps a lot. I have a shortcut that runs at 3am that turns it off for 10 minutes and then back on again so iCloud data doesn’t end up hilariously out of date
@christianselig before they added background updates and multitasking, iPads and iPod touches used to last basically indefinitely in sleep mode. Maybe they could just back-off on background updates over time, so if you haven't checked the device for a day or two then it stops updating?
@christianselig in my experience what drains an iPad is the Apple Pencil. Without it nearby, mine easily lasts a week or two in standby, but with it on the charger it hardly lasts five days. 😅
Also, switching the iPad to airplane mode drastically improves standby time for me, maybe you could give that a shot. 😊
@christianselig My Kindle Paperwhite has this and it’s amazing, I basically charge it a few times a year and I read about an hour every night. I was surprised when I told my friend about it and he said he couldn’t find the setting on his Kindle (Oasis). More devices should have this.
My old iPad Pro sits on its cable all day every day - I only now use it for work meetings weekly (so I can do other things on my MacBook). It seems to lose about 20% every 20 minutes.
I recently had a 4 hour class and I was down to 40% after an hour and a half. I think it's time to retire that old gal.
@christianselig the silliest and simplest thing I’ve found to help me is a daily shortcut at an early AM to put it into low power mode — Not perfect, but sure helps draw that idle draw way way down
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