If you have battery problems on your iPad or the autonomy of this does not seem enough for your use, you may be interested to know what we tell you in this article. We are going to give you a series of tips and tricks with which you can save time of use on your Apple tablet. Excellent options if your iPad is already a few years old.
Tricks to save battery on iPad
If you use your iPad outside the home for school or professional tasks, it is extremely important that the battery endure, since it is not always easy to find plugs where to charge it. Although if you use the device at home, regardless of which apps you use, these tricks will come in handy, since unfortunately the iPad does not have a low-power mode like the iPhone does.
- Lower the screen brightness if possible. The brightness is one of the aspects that consumes the most battery, so turning off the automatic brightness and lowering it manually can also be extremely useful. To do this you must go to the Control Center or in Settings> Display and brightness.
- Activate True Tone if you have an iPad with this feature. To activate it, go to Settings> Display and brightness.
- Use dark mode whenever you can. This is a great solution on iPhones that have an OLED screen and unfortunately the iPads do not yet, but it will always consume less than light colors. Activate it from Settings> Display and brightness.
- Turn off bluetooth if you don’t have an Apple Pencil, keyboard, or any other device paired. To do this, go to the Control Center or Settings> Bluetooth.
- Completely disable WiFi if you are not performing any action that requires an internet connection. From the Control Center it is not enough, since here it is only temporarily disabled, so you must go to Settings> WiFi. Of course, if you need an internet connection and you have an iPad Cellular, it is recommended to connect to these networks whenever possible, since mobile data consumes more battery.
- Try to lock the device manually via the button because letting the screen turn off with auto lock makes the screen on for longer than you probably need.
- Deactivate the location of apps that you don’t need to have your location to use them. The location service is permanently sending data and thereby generating battery consumption. To deactivate it, just go to Settings> Privacy> Location and enter each app in which you want to deactivate the location.
- Turn off the location in the background by going to Settings> General> Update in the background, since these processes are the ones that generate the most battery consumption in the devices.
- Deactivate some notifications that are not essential for you. If you do this in some apps you will save battery considerably. To do this go to Settings> Notifications.
- Turn off automatic downloads so that your app updates do not generate battery consumption in the background. To deactivate them you have to go to Settings> iTunes and App Store.
- Use airplane mode as an emergency when you are low on battery power but cannot turn iPad off. This mode can be activated from the Control Center and from Settings> Airplane mode.
- Find the apps that consume the most and assess whether it pays to have it installed or use it as much. It is possible that you will find some surprise in apps that you really do not use as much for the consumption they have. You can see this in Settings> Battery.
- Keep the iPad always up to date , since each update implements internal measures that optimize the resources of your iPad. You can check if there is any update available in Settings> General> Software update.
Don’t obsess over the battery
We understand the need to save battery on certain occasions and that these tricks can be useful to you, but it is not necessary to apply them all either. Following each and every foot will make your experience worse, which in the end is not a pleasant thing either. That is why we recommend you do it with common sense and resort to some of these tips only in situations where you really need it.
If you have battery problems
These tips are not miraculous, so many times they may not even make you save significantly on battery power. This is the case of those older iPads or those that have any damage to the battery that causes it to have degraded considerably. For these cases we recommend you visit the article in which we tell you how much it costs to repair the battery of an iPad .
