- 99% of the time
when an iPad has a battery problem,
it's because of the software,
not the hardware,
not the battery itself.
So we're going to show you how to fix a bunch
of software problems that can cause battery drain
starting in the settings app.
- [Lynch] Yeah, so let's go to the mail settings
on your iPad.
- [Payette] All right, scrolling down, tapping mail.
- Tap accounts.
- And then tap fetch new data.
- Fetch new data.
- This switch at the top of the screen,
we want to turn that right off.
- [Payette] Boom.
So with Push on, new data will be pushed to your iPad
from the server when possible.
So your iPad maintains the connection to the servers,
and says is there mail, is there mail, is there mail?
By turning this off,
you get to choose how often your iPad checks
to see if there's new mail.
Then under fetch,
we're going to choose every 15 minutes
or every 30 minutes
or hourly.
- Whatever works for you.
You can also open the mail app at any time
to get your mail.
- Boom, instantly it downloads.
- Yeah.
- So you're not going to notice a difference
unless you really need that mail up to the second.
- For better battery life, fetch less frequently.
Give this video a thumbs up if you liked that tip.
Let's going to privacy.
- [Payette] Boom.
- [Lynch] Tap on location services.
- All right, location services.
- And look for any apps that say always.
- All right, let's look through the list.
Always is dangerous because it means the app can
use your location all the time,
which could drain your battery.
Google Home, I don't even use that.
I'm going to change it all the way back to never.
- And this is a big killer too.
Could we just tap on that real quick?
- Nope, nope.
We're going to find another one that has always,
and then do it.
- [Lynch] Big killer here.
Precise location, plus always.
- Right.
This is a good example because
the MLB app needs to know where I am
so that it can not show me games
that I'm interested in
by blacking them out
because I'm interested in them and I pay the subscription.
So why should I be able to watch the Yankee game?
That would make sense.
Okay.
Then tap while using the app,
because it doesn't need to know where I am all the time.
So not precisely that uses more battery.
You get the idea.
Tap back to location services.
- [Lynch] Tap on system services.
- [Payette] All right.
- We've got a whole bunch of switches on,
a whole bunch of scary purple arrows.
We're going to turn most of these switches off.
We're going to leave on emergency calls
and SOS and Find My iPad.
- Alright.
Home kit, location based alerts, networking.
- Oh!
- Turning off networking and wireless
may affect Bluetooth and Wifi performance.
- Why pie? Wifi performance.
- If you go to a different country, this is true.
If you stay in the United States, it's not true.
Just tap, turn off.
It's because it uses your location in areas
where Wifi and Bluetooth are configured differently.
It's not configured differently in California
than it is in Wisconsin.
Newsflash.
- Setting time zone, again,
traveled to a different time zone.
Turn it on, time zone updates.
Turn it off, you don't need to have that always on.
- Right, David actually tried this recently.
- I did. I went to Greece.
- You went to Greece to test this setting.
- It was off and then I turned it on and then boom...
- Boom!
- It updated, and then I turned it off again, and...
- This is what we do.
- I haven't lost track of time.
- Let's tap on significant locations next.
- All right, touch ID.
- Used to be frequent locations.
Apple said, that's weird.
- That's freaky.
- Let's just turn this switch off.
It's constantly saving information with the places you visit
most often with your iPad.
- It's less of a privacy issue
than it is a battery issue,
just does not need to be happening all the time.
The reason you don't see anything from here is
that I don't ever leave the house.
Actually it's because I leave this off all the time,
but because we're awesome and you should subscribe,
we went through and I go in,
I turn on all the settings before
we even start making the video.
- Tedious.
- It's a process that you could hit subscribe
to say thank you for.
I'm just saying.
- IP analytics, routing and traffic, turn those off.
Apple can improve their own products.
- Right.
- But we are going to turn on the status bar icon.
Why are we doing that?
- Because by turning on the status bar icon,
you get this little arrow in the upper right hand corner
of your iPad next to the Wifi.
And then you can tell when your iPad
is tracking your location.
And if that little arrow is on all the time,
it could indicate a battery problem.
You can see that even Find My iPad
is using my location right now.
That's the purple arrow.
Gray, last 24 hours.
Hollow purple arrow, geo fencing.
Big battery drainer.
- Tap back to location services.
Tap back to privacy.
- Boom.
- We're going to scroll down.
I guess we don't have to scroll at all.
Analytics and improvements.
- We're used to iPhones, these are bigger screens.
- Turn these off.
- Well, should I go one at a time, or...
- You can just do the top switch, boom!
- Boom, all at once.
- This will use battery life,
can use a little bit of sailor data on iPhones too.
- Right.
- So just be careful.
Apple can improve their own products.
- Their own goshdarned products.
All right, tap back to privacy.
Or did I jump ahead there?
We did everything we possibly could
at that section of the segment.
- That was everything in privacy,
we did it, it was a lot of stuff.
There are still more tips.
- But as you said earlier...
- A lot more tips.
- Subscribe to this channel, give this video
a thumbs up.
We've given you a lot of really good tips so far.
- Come on.
- Just saying.
So, let's talk about something kind of controversial
in Apple spaces.
That's closing out of apps.
- But you should never have
to close out of your apps, David!
- You should never have to, but apps are not perfect.
- Yup.
- Screws fall out all the time.
- Unlike us,
but to close out your apps on an iPad
without a home button,
swipe your finger from the very bottom of the screen,
then let go.
And you get a list of all your apps.
Swipe them off the top of the screen.
- Yep.
- Boom. How do you do it
if you have an iPad with a home button?
- Press the home button, app, swipe up.
- Swipe up.
- Nice and easy.
- See you later.
- Let's go to another classic tip.
Background app refresh, tap general.
- All right.
Scrolling up to general in the left. Boom.
- Tap background app refresh.
- Okay.
- Got a lot of switches on here
that don't need to be on when this is on for an app.
That app can download new content in
the background of your iPad all the time.
- Battery drainer.
- Yeah.
You're not using the app.
You don't need it on, even Apple admits
now that it is a battery drainer.
I'm turning off.
- Turning off apps may help preserve battery life.
We told you.
- Yeah, every single time you hit one of these switches.
- Save a little bit of battery life.
- Little bit more battery life.
- Messaging apps, for example,
like Slack or Snapchat or Facebook Messenger,
you probably want to leave it on.
So those messages do loud... load.
- Yep, the loud.
- Load in the background of your iPad.
- Right, but other stuff like Star Trek...
- Star Trek?
Is that a game?
- It is a game, it's part of Avalark.
I've never opened it.
Unlike every other thing in Apple Arcade.
- So let's go to accessibility next.
- So under general, accessibility.
- Let's tap on display and text size.
- Okay.
- And we'll talk about reduce white point.
- All right.
So if we turn it on,
you'll notice that my screen gets slightly darker,
which is a way to save battery life.
I like to back it off to 50% ish.
You can still use the slider to adjust the brightness.
We have it sort of set at this level right now.
Just so it looks really good
to you, you're welcome overhead camera.
So we turned it off for the video,
but kind of recalibrates the brightness slider
so that the bright isn't quite as bright,
but it's still really bright, saves battery.
- Let's tap back to accessibility.
- Okay.
- Then tap on motion.
- All right.
- Reduce motion.
So cut down on some of the animations you see
on your iPad.
- Right, animations use battery life.
This is a little battery tip.
Some of them are huge,
like push, location services.
Some of them are little,
but they all add up.
Now, if I swipe up from the bottom of the screen,
you'll notice it does a cool little fade.
Some people prefer the cross dissolve
to the swipey and all the motion going around.
- Yeah, well, we actually want
to go back to the home screen.
So let's show them again.
Let's talk about removing unnecessary widgets.
These are little mini apps.
And now with iPad iOS 15,
you can add this to your home screen
on your iPad and they can just use a lot of battery life
if you've got a whole bunch of them.
- Right.
So what I'll do is swipe from right to left
on my home screen to bring up my main little list
of widgets here.
So how do we remove them?
- Well, you can press and hold on a widget.
- Okay.
It doesn't matter which one?
- I mean it's faster if you press and hold
the one you want to remove.
- Okay.
- Then tap remove widget, tap remove.
You can also press and hold on any widget
and then tap edit home screen,
and then just tap these minus buttons
next to the widget
if you want to delete a whole bunch at once.
- All right, so let's do this one.
Get rid of that.
- Remove.
- What about these?
What about these widgets down here?
They're legacy widgets, they're the old ones.
I have to tap edit at the bottom here
and then...
- Customize.
You got to tap on it.
- There we go.
- I just missed it.
- And then you can just tap
these little red minus buttons to remove,
or you can also swipe.
Nope, you can't.
Okay, remove.
Throwing me through a loop here.
- Yup.
Through the loop, for a loop, through a loop, whatever.
- What did I say?
- You said throw me through a loop.
- I always say that, but it's for a loop.
- Yeah.
- I looked it up the other day.
Let's go back to the settings app.
- All right, tap in there.
Tapping on settings to open it back up.
- Let's tap display and brightness.
This saves a little bit of battery life.
Turn on that dark mode.
- Boom!
- Looks cool.
- Looks cooler.
- We finally have it.
- Yeah, we've been asking for it for a long time.
Auto-lock, I have it set on never right now.
Two minutes, five minutes.
Why is it on never?
Because we're doing a screen recording.
- If auto-lock is set to never,
and you don't remember to lock your iPad,
the display is just on.
I've actually had that issue here.
We turn it on to never.
- Yeah.
- For our screen recordings.
I forget to switch it back.
And then my battery dies and I don't know why.
And I'm like "oh, because..."
- The only thing that would make me feel better
is if we had another subscriber.
- Hit that subscribe button.
Update your iPad when iPad OS updates become available,
they can fix software bugs, introduce cool new features.
Always good to keep your iPad up to date.
- Yep, so let's tap general.
Then tap software update at the top.
Wait as it checks, then you can just tap install later.
Right now,
mine is in the process of automatically downloading
the iPad developer beta.
- Also restart your iPad once a week,
give it a little bit of a fresh start every now and then.
So to restart your iPad,
a lot of people don't realize that the process has changed.
So on this iPad, for instance, without a home button,
it's the top button and either volume button.
Press and hold them together.
Then you can see the slide to power off things.
Slide to power off.
If you hold just the top button now,
you get Siri, and she won't turn it off for you.
She's like...
- [HAL] I'm sorry Dave.
I'm afraid I can't do that.
- It doesn't tell you how.
- Other iPads with the home button,
just press and hold that power button.
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