10+ Tips for Improving Battery Life on iPadOS 14 (MUST WATCH) By Fernando Silva

So, what is going on guys? Neither prince3 here with another video in between iPadOS, 14, the magic keyboard as an accessory and then also just having an older iPad from 2018 and iPad Pro, and not upgrading to that 2020 model battery life is getting a little worse, and what I wanted to show you guys is give you 12 tips or tricks whatever you guys want to call it uh to kind of improve battery life on your iPad, and this will apply to any iPad. It doesn't just have to be the pro it could be any age as long as it's running iPad, OS 14, and it has these settings that I'm going to go through with you guys so sit back, relax and, let's start saving some battery on our iPad, so they last longer because accessories like the magic keyboard and iPadOS 14 have been pretty detrimental to the battery life on my iPad Pro. So, let's get right into it. So I'm going to grab the iPad, pull it off. Its dock and kind of screen share exactly what I'm doing over here, guys. Okay! So the first thing that I'm going to show you guys, which is probably pretty obvious and probably the one that takes up the most amount of battery on your iPad Pro- is push notifications right just overall notifications.

So if you hop into your settings and hit the notifications, you should have custom app notifications for all your different applications. For instance, you know all these different ones, for example, AMC, theaters, um Apple Store- I have a bunch of them- are just totally off because I don't need to know every moment every second of exactly what is happening inside that application and every time a push notification comes through. That means that, in the back end your iPad Pro or any iOS device is grabbing information from where it needs to, while using internet right and that's what's kind of killing battery. In the background and again, these are all battery saving things that, if you do them all together, you're definitely going to see some increase in battery life and increase in being able to use your iPad normally. So that's my first recommendation.

Go into your notifications, don't be the person just says. Yes, to accept all notifications, make sure that the notifications that you're receiving are actually notifications that you want versus random ones that like something from hotels. com, I don't really care about that. If I need to go, get a hotel I'll go into the application and get a hotel. So let's talk about tip number two: this one's actually really, really cool, and it requires you to use shortcuts.

So if I hop into the actual shortcuts' menu you go into automation and automation added- something very I know by default apple sets, especially for iPhones at 20 battery level. It recommends that you go into low battery mode and then same thing with the iPad Pro it's a little different, because you can't actually go into it on the iPad Pro with iPadOS, but around 10 battery. It also goes into this low power mode and warns you right what you're able to do now with these automations is actually go in and change that default right. So for me, I have it set to whenever the battery hits below 50 it'll go into battery saver mode, which is that yellow battery on the top right and that's awesome. I love that we're able to customize that just purely through automation, and you set it up one time, and I'll walk you guys through it.

So you just press the plus button, create personal automation, go all the way down to battery level. Here you choose what your battery level you want, so you can even do it at 90 95. It doesn't really matter, it's totally up to you and make sure it does falls below 50 percent. So once it falls below 50, you add the action which you could search low power mode right here, set low power mode boom next, and you're good to go. So I'm going to stop that one, because I already have it set up.

That's how you change that default, setting from that 20 battery level and lower to go into low power mode. Well, this one has to do with the new update to both iOS and iPadOS, so 14 the widgets. So people are falling in love with widgets you've seen all these different cool setups and things like that. What I want to touch on with widgets is that limit the widgets that are constantly fetching data right. So, for instance, the weather widget probably consumes a lot more data than my battery widget right, because my weather widget is constantly going to the weather channel wherever it pulls the information from asking hey.

What's the temperature right now, what's it going to be in an hour and two hours next week and that's going to drain a lot of battery, especially if it's currently active and always active, but things like the battery widget, that's not pulling any internet data right news, that's another one! It's always constantly pulling new news to show you at a glance, but that's pulling information, and it's sucking up battery so make sure that you don't load your widgets menu and your iPhone or your iPad with different widgets, and that's. That might be a reason why they're kind of restricting us from putting widgets all over the place on the iPad Pro imagine if they were just filling up their screens with all these widgets that were constantly consuming energy right people would be very, very frustrated. The battery is not lasting that long. Another big one has to do with Siri. So if you go into your settings, go into Syrian search, I highly recommend turning off the hey Siri and then also all the series suggestions right so, for instance, down here where it says Siri suggestions.

These are all turned on because I actually use them on a regular basis when I kind of when you go down. These are the serious suggestions right these top apps right here that are being suggested to you and lo and behold that actually pulls data right, because it's using you know what you've been doing, what apps you've been using to easily let you access those right. So that's going to suck up a lot of batteries, so I do recommend unless you use it a lot like. I do turn all these off, because that'll save you. Some battery another important one has to be background, refreshes right.

So, if you go into general go into background app refresh, you can see that all of mine are pretty much on which I do regret, and I do need to go in here and actually turn some of these off, because I don't need you know Airbnb to be constantly refreshing. In the background you know I don't need best buy to constantly refreshing in the background things like email. Maybe if you need to fetch notifications, your maps applications. If you need that to constantly be checking your location, things like that, but background app refresh make sure that you turn it off. If you don't want it in the background right, because that's going to consume a lot of battery, whether you're on data or Wi-Fi, if you're on data, it's going to suck it even more so keep that in mind everybody another really cool one which actually goes with screen time right.

So if I go into screen time and I tap into it, go into the settings I'll go back just to give you guys the rundown. Obviously, this shows you everything that you do from a screen time perspective, but if you're going to see all activity you scroll all the way down it lets. You know how many notifications you're getting and from where those notifications are coming from. So you can see that spark and outlook which basically my email, communications, obviously for work and personal. That's what takes up the most amount of notifications, because I have those on and I like to see exactly who's sending me emails.

I could probably turn the spark one off, because a lot of it is just newsletters and random notifications, but it gives you good insight as to why you're getting so many notifications where they're coming from and if you even need them. So I highly recommend going into that and seeing exactly what's going on, and I'll give you guys a bye week view you can see that I have over 110 notifications that have come in two more things here. To show you guys, you want to turn off auto, lock or turn it on. I'm sorry! So if you go into against display and brightness there is the auto lock feature, I keep mine at five minutes, because I don't like it to dim down too quickly, but I recommend, if you don't use it a lot, especially with an iPad Pro with an iPhone you, you lock it pretty much automatically right. You always want to lock it, and it's just second nature to lock your iPhone, but with an iPad.

That's just sitting on your desk on the magic keyboard. I tend to leave it on a lot and if I have it, if I put it at never, I really won't lock it and that's going to drain a lot of battery so make sure you have auto lock on you know and use the time that you see fit and then one more especially that I've noticed, because I'm now down in Florida, and it's very, very hot, and these things are metal, and they're thin, and they have batteries inside it. Limit heat exposure right if you're going to go outside and be in the shade, don't go! Take it to the beach go tanning in 100 degree weather, because these things, like heat, is the biggest enemy of the battery, so make sure you're limiting heat exposure to your battery, because heat is what's gonna actually degrade the battery even faster, so keep that in mind and then. Lastly, it's pretty much a little wish that I want very badly with the magic keyboard. I want to be able to actually use the magic keyboard as just to stand sometimes and turn off all the functionality, because the second you slap this iPad on the magic keyboard, it's draining more battery than it would on its own, because it's automatically on, and it's automatically thinking that you're using the magic keyboard actively and there's no way to like to turn it off.

I wish that I could just use it as a stand, because it's a great stand, especially if you're using it in bed. You can kind of lay it on your chest and have it face down to you, but it drains so much battery that it's almost not worth it. So I wish that apple can just throw something in the keyboard settings that allows me to manually turn it off and let me do that and then maybe I can even set automations with it and things like that. So that's a big one for me that I think would save everybody a ton of hassle when it comes to battery on their beloved iPad pros. But that's going to do for this video.

Hopefully you guys enjoyed and learned something new and kind of take one of these things and apply it to either your iPhone or your iPad Pro or any iPad. That's running iPad, OS 14. , but that's going to do for this. Video don't forget to like comment subscribe comment below if you guys are trying any of these tips out and if it's worked but uh until next time. Peace guys.

Source : Fernando Silva