iPad Air Louse battery life, should I format and reinstall?

[nph]

I have an iPad Air 5, M1 256 GB. it is thicker and heavier than my old iPad 3 and still battery life literally sucks.
i now only use it to read newspaper, a few books and some videos from Netflix.
Battery life is lousy compared to my older iPad. I know this one's faster and has M1 in it, which i like but I am getting maybe 6 hours and that is if I am lucky. Meawhile I have a Macbook Pro 2020 13" and i absolutely love it! Battery lasts 18 hours and some change.
I will probably skip iPad in the future and use my macbook Pro or iPhone Max instead and have a lot better battery life.
Is this just me or?

 

[Digitalguy]

Air 5 thinker and heavier than an iPad 3?? Are you serious? 😂
Depending on brightness and what you do, 6 hours is perfectly normal. As it is normal that a M1 Macbook pro with the same chip and much larger battery lasts quite a bit longer

 

[nph]

iPad Air 3, my bad.

 

[dotzero123]

My iPad Air5 had great battery life when I purchased it about a year ago. Now it runs out of battery in a few hours. Going to try resetting and will take it to apple or sell it if I can't fix it. It was an amazing iPad but now it needs babysitting. I wonder if one of the upgrades affected battery.

 

[nph]

Mine wasn’t good to start with but I suspect an upgrade made it a lot worse.

 

[ericwn]

My M1 iPad has a good or bad a battery as when I got it.

 

[darngooddesign]

Your post doesn’t really match the thread title, but yes try a fresh install. You can also do things like turning off background app refresh and notifications for most apps. I also added battery top control center and I turn on low power mode when not in use to really improve standby time.

 

[FeliApple]

Is brightness high? I have an iPad Air 5 and battery life is great but I use it with low brightness on iPadOS 15. iPads have always been poor with high brightness, I recall complaints about the 1st-gen iPad Pros (on iOS 9!) with something like 4 hours of screen-on time. When the device is new (so, not infinitely updated), I’d dare to say that battery life issues are always due to high brightness (if usage isn’t heavy, which is your case).

Newspaper, Books, and Netflix is my use case, and even my 7-year-old, forcibly-updated-to-iOS 12, 9,7-inch iPad Pro gets 11 hours with that usage (and low brightness).

 

[giffut]

iOS 17 messes with battery life big time.

Also the M1 consumes more compared to it predecessors.

 

[Reverend Benny]

iOS 17 messes with battery life big time.

Also the M1 consumes more compared to it predecessors.

How does the M1 consume more (I guess battery) compared to its predecessors?
If I look at the spec sheet of the CPU everything points towards its being more efficient.

 

[darngooddesign]

How does the M1 consume more (I guess battery) compared to its predecessors?
If I look at the spec sheet of the CPU everything points towards its being more efficient.

It's certainly more efficient than the Intel chips it replaces, but it's sort of an A# chip with desktop features, like swap memory, added. A higher performance version of the A# chips if you will.

 

[Reverend Benny]

It's certainly more efficient than the Intel chips it replaces, but it's sort of an A# chip with desktop features, like swap memory, added. A higher performance version of the A# chips if you will.

Yea, I was more curious what @giffut meant, I didn't make any sense to me.

 

[giffut]

It is basically more cores and the interconnect between them and memory is a little different, too.

The M1 design (8 high performance cores at 3,2Ghz) e.g. is based on the A14 (6 high performance cores at 3 Ghz).

Roughly a third higher energy consumption compared to its predecessors. Users are reporting this in daily usage. But iOS 17 just seems to be very buggy regarding energy managment in general, too.