{"id":39645,"date":"2023-06-07T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39645"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:02:36","slug":"tablet-standby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/tablet-standby\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet Standby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/defcon.social\/@mysk\/110435273963813561\">Mysk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/defcon.social\/@mysk\/110435273963813561\"><p>&ldquo;Over a month of standby&rdquo;\nThis is how Apple used to market the iPad&rsquo;s battery. Today, the iPad runs several background processes while in standby. My HomeKit experiment clearly shows that. I achieved 20 days of standby on my iPad Pro. Without disabling Home the battery would have died after a week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt I would even get a week on my iPad Air. If I don&rsquo;t leave it plugged in, it&rsquo;s always dead when I reach for it.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s not great with my Kindle, either, <em>unless<\/em> I put it in Airplane Mode. Then the battery life is amazing.<\/p>\n\n<p>For iPad, I think the available settings don&rsquo;t really match how I use it. I don&rsquo;t want to turn off Background App Refresh because then apps will be out-of-date when I&rsquo;m actively using it. But I don&rsquo;t want them constantly doing stuff when the iPad is &ldquo;off,&rdquo; either. I think what I&rsquo;d like is for it to automatically go into Airplane Mode when I turn off the screen.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/when-to-force-quit-ios-apps\/\">When to Force Quit iOS Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"tablet-standby-update-2023-12-11\">Update (2023-12-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianSelig\/status\/1712979722324357392\">Christian Selig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianSelig\/status\/1712979722324357392\"><p>iPad feature I&rsquo;d love: Deep Sleep. I find whenever I go a few days or a week between using an iPad, it&rsquo;s often dead or almost dead. An auto-deep sleep mode after 24 hours of non-use would be awesome, even if it took 5 seconds or so to wake back up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"tablet-standby-update-2024-10-24\">Update (2024-10-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@christianselig\/113359148149404436\">Christian Selig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@christianselig\/113359148149404436\"><p>iPad feature request: auto &ldquo;deep sleep&rdquo; after 24h idle (10 seconds to wake is okay). iPads used to last over 30 days on standby, but every time I pick one up now after less than a week it&rsquo;s dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sam_Ohanaware\/status\/1849278188255686972\">Sam Rowlands<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sam_Ohanaware\/status\/1849278188255686972\">\n<p>Likewise Apple used to promote that MacBooks would last a month on standby, nowadays 14 days seems to be the average.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysk: &ldquo;Over a month of standby&rdquo; This is how Apple used to market the iPad&rsquo;s battery. Today, the iPad runs several background processes while in standby. My HomeKit experiment clearly shows that. I achieved 20 days of standby on my iPad Pro. Without disabling Home the battery would have died after a week. I doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-07T19:55:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"19cf9c27-ec52-448f-aeb3-feb431ef681e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-24T18:02:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGc-cJ-xSRI-us_60Me9oHg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,772,145,1814,2228,165,187],"class_list":["post-39645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-batterylife","tag-ios-multitasking","tag-ipad","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-16","tag-kindle","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45495,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645\/revisions\/45495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}