Here’s how to get a report of where your iPad’s battery life is going.
How to View Battery Usage on Your iPad
What Does Battery Usage Tell You?
The first thing to note are the graphs showing the battery charge level and activity on the iPad. If you see an excessive amount of battery usage at a time when the iPad isn’t very active, an app may be using the battery in the background. The battery usage by app list below these graphs can help diagnose this problem. Tap on any app in this list to see more details about how much activity the app had while on screen and how much was in the background. Apps can download new data and perform other updates with a feature called background app refresh.
How Can We Reduce Our Battery Usage?
You can use the information in the Battery menu to get more out of our battery life.
Close out of apps when you’re done using them. You can do this using the iPad’s App Switcher feature by double-clicking the Home button and then swiping up on the program you want to close. Set your iPad to sleep when you’re not using it. Generally, you don’t want the Auto-Lock setting set to an interval longer than 2 minutes. Look for similar apps that use less battery. Sometimes you can find apps that do the same thing with fewer resources. Turn off background app refresh. Do this by opening Settings, tapping General from the left-side menu, and choosing Background App Refresh. You can turn Background App Refresh off entirely or for individual apps. Lower the screen brightness. A bright screen uses more power. Turn off Bluetooth if you aren’t using it. Bluetooth controls headphones, external speakers, and other devices. If you don’t use any of them with your iPad, you can turn off the feature and save some battery.
