Conserving iPad Battery Life

As a student in an academically rigorous preparatory school, it is essential to conserve the battery life of an iPad for it to last the entire school day. With the new iOS 8 update, the iPad consumes much more power than it did previously. In this blog I will present numerous ways to conserve battery life on your iPad.

1. Turn off WiFi

• Turn off your WiFi when you don’t need it, such as when driving to school because even though your iPad isn’t connected to a network it still uses power when trying to find them.

2. Reducing iPad Brightness

• When inside a classroom, you might not always need to have the brightness turned up all the way. Reducing your brightness conserves power.

3. Turn off Location Services

• When not needed, go to settings and turn off location services to conserve power.

4. Close Unused Apps

• When you finish using an app, close the app completely by swiping with four fingers first, then simply swipe up on the desired app you want to close.

5. Turn on Auto-Lock

• By turning on auto-lock you can make sure you don’t accidentally leave your iPad on, wasting power.

6. Turn off Bluetooth

• Turn off Bluetooth when you’re not using it, it consumes a lot of power and you only use it when air dropping and connecting to external devices.

7. Turn on Airplane Mode

• When you enable airplane mode you disable most of the functions listed above.

8. Turn off Auto App Refresh

• By turning the Auto App Refresh function off in settings, the apps are no longer allowed to constantly refresh in the background.  Although this function allows apps to be reopened faster, you can save power if you disable it.

9. Turn off Auto App Downloading

• When apps download updates they consume large amounts of power as they connect to the download server.  When you disable Auto App Downloading the apps wait for you to update them, that way you choose where and when you update. For example, you can have updates download when you are at home and plugged into a power source.