Hey, Jacob here – and today I’m going to show you, really quickly, how to check your battery health on the iPad.

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In the Settings app, I can tap onto Battery on the left-hand side. From here, I’m going to get an overview of my usage of the iPad over the last 24 hours and the last 10 days. This is quite useful to get an idea of what apps are using battery on my device – whether that’s on-screen activity or things running in the background.

I’ve actually got USB-C devices on the screen here – that’s where I was charging my iPhone from the iPad on a flight recently.

Now, if we tap onto Battery Health at the top here, we’ll get some more information about how good the battery in our iPad is, and how much it has deteriorated with age and usage.

The most important thing to look at here is right at the very top where it just says Battery Health. On this iPad, you can see it’s “Normal”. If it didn’t say “Normal”, that might be a cause for concern – perhaps worth going to an Apple Store or having it serviced somewhere, because that likely means the battery is deteriorating.

But if you want to dig a little deeper into the information on the screen, we can do that as well.

So next on the list here we have the Maximum Capacity of that battery. This will obviously start at 100% for a brand-new iPad, but the more you charge it – the more cycles of fully charging, depleting, charging, depleting – eventually that number will start to drop a little.

This isn’t really a cause for concern unless it gets to perhaps about 80% or below, in which case you’ll notice your battery is draining really quickly, and it will probably start getting worse as it deteriorates further.

For me, it’s quite a new iPad – I’m still at 100%, so I’m good to carry on.

Next up, we have the Cycle Count. This data tells you how many times your iPad battery has been completely drained and recharged – essentially how many full charging cycles the device has gone through.

For me, it’s 87 – again, a fairly new device, so that’s pretty good news. This can be quite useful if you’ve bought a second-hand iPad, because it gives you an idea of how much usage it’s had in its lifetime. So if you’ve got a choice of two different iPads to buy, it might be worth checking this number.

And then finally, we’ve got the option here to limit the charging capacity to 80%.

If you turn this toggle on, whenever you charge your iPad, it will stop – just as you’d expect – at 80%.

The idea here is that using less of your battery’s capacity over time should help prolong its life slightly.

I’m not a battery scientist – I’m just a teacher from Cornwall – so I can’t guarantee if that will actually make a difference or not, but the fact the setting is there probably suggests it’s something you may want to turn on if you’re trying to preserve your battery for longer.

And that’s it for this QuickTip.

Hopefully, you’ve learned how to use Battery Health on your iPad and what some of those numbers mean.

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