Warning! Is your Magic Keyboard killing your iPad Battery?
It's taken several months to figure out BUT I definitely know much power my Magic Keyboard is stealing from my iPad! Over the last month or so, I've charged and discharged my iPad dozens of times to come to the following realizations: a. The Magic Keyboard looks cool but for the best charging experience, plug the power directly into your iPad. b. The Magic Keyboard, when not plugged in, is not a power hog. I spent $1400 dollars on iPad keyboards, which one is best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sXEgY_oec My Patreon Supporters got to see this video a few days before release! You can too! https://www.patreon.com/MobileReviewsEh See if the Magic Keyboard is on Amazon! Amazon US: https://mreh.ca/32Mv9yv Amazon CA: https://mreh.ca/35VwwwO Amazon UK: https://mreh.ca/2RI6Co1 Amazon DE: https://mreh.ca/2RI2DHZ In this video: 0:00 Intro 1:25 Test Scenarios/Setup 2:28 Charging Tests 3:43 Arthur's Birth Story 6:11 Discharge Tests 8:31 Funny Stuff 9:18 Monty's Revelations #UnsponseredContent #ReviewerNOTInfluencer #MobileReviewsEh So a while back, when I got the Magic Keyboard was released there was a rumor circulating about the keyboard being a power hog. That question I personally wanted to answer was: Is it? As always, I’m not going to tell you what I think BUT I’ll tell you that in the last few weeks, I’ve measured a 15% difference in discharging the iPad Pro a 50% difference in charging when it comes to the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. So there were 8 different tests that we did. 1. Tracking the iPad’s charge rates by itself 2. Tracking w/ power to the iPad with the keyboard attached 3. Tracking w/ power through the keyboard 4. Tracking w/ power through the keyboard and Arthur 5. Tracking w/ power through the iPad with the keyboard and Arthur I use an app called Ampere’s to measure the charge rates and the game Overland to burn through the batteries. As a side note, the fastest way I could burn an iPad Pro battery was to have the game Overland on full brightness while charging another iPhone through a Qi-charger. Now I will admit that I don’t know how accurate Ampere is. The values seemed close to the meters that I have BUT for these tests, I wasn’t interested in the accuracy of the data, just the precision and subsequently relative change of the data. I used the exact same charger and cable for all tests and kept the iPad on airplane mode for the tests. On the data side, I only used values between 10 and 90 percent. I didn’t use anything under 10% because the start of each data set wasn’t always the same and I didn’t used anything above 90 percent because of trickle charging. So here's what I got as averages - With Test #1, it took approx 2.5 hours to charge - With Test #2, it was 2 hours and 25 minutes - With Test #3, it was 3 Hours and 57 minutes - With Test #4, it was 4 hours and 47 minutes - With Test #5, it was 4 hours and 20 minutes Did Monty and I just stumble on an Apple fail? Monty and I did three different discharge tests, with the first test tracking the time it took for the iPad Pro by itself to get the 10% battery warning, the second test involved running the battery down to 10% while attached to the Magic Keyboard and the last test was running it down to 10% with Arthur. Remember the large discrepancies with the charging? Well, they don’t really show up with the discharge tests. To drain the battery to 10% with just the iPad, took on average, about 2 hours and 23 minutes. With the Magic Keyboard on the iPad Pro but not really activated, it took about 2 hours and 4 minutes. With Arthur running, it was right under 2 hours. So this second set of tests really stumped me because unlike the charge tests, they weren’t that different. It almost felt like the iPad didn’t know what to do with Magic Keyboard. Should it be charging its battery or dedication all the power to the keyboard? What do you guys think? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to stay in the loop! We release 2-3 videos a week so there's going to be something new every week. We're all about helping you get the most out of iOS so click Subscribe! WEBSITE: http://www.mobilereviews-eh.ca T-SHIRTS: http://mobilereviewseh.spreadshirt.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/MobileReviewsEh INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mobilereviewseh TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MobileReviewsEh AARON: https://twitter.com/Aaron_The_Ho FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MobileReviewsEh
It's taken several months to figure out BUT I definitely know much power my Magic Keyboard is stealing from my iPad! Over the last month or so, I've charged and discharged my iPad dozens of times to come to the following realizations: a. The Magic Keyboard looks cool but for the best charging experience, plug the power directly into your iPad. b. The Magic Keyboard, when not plugged in, is not a power hog. I spent $1400 dollars on iPad keyboards, which one is best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4sXEgY_oec My Patreon Supporters got to see this video a few days before release! You can too! https://www.patreon.com/MobileReviewsEh See if the Magic Keyboard is on Amazon! Amazon US: https://mreh.ca/32Mv9yv Amazon CA: https://mreh.ca/35VwwwO Amazon UK: https://mreh.ca/2RI6Co1 Amazon DE: https://mreh.ca/2RI2DHZ In this video: 0:00 Intro 1:25 Test Scenarios/Setup 2:28 Charging Tests 3:43 Arthur's Birth Story 6:11 Discharge Tests 8:31 Funny Stuff 9:18 Monty's Revelations #UnsponseredContent #ReviewerNOTInfluencer #MobileReviewsEh So a while back, when I got the Magic Keyboard was released there was a rumor circulating about the keyboard being a power hog. That question I personally wanted to answer was: Is it? As always, I’m not going to tell you what I think BUT I’ll tell you that in the last few weeks, I’ve measured a 15% difference in discharging the iPad Pro a 50% difference in charging when it comes to the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. So there were 8 different tests that we did. 1. Tracking the iPad’s charge rates by itself 2. Tracking w/ power to the iPad with the keyboard attached 3. Tracking w/ power through the keyboard 4. Tracking w/ power through the keyboard and Arthur 5. Tracking w/ power through the iPad with the keyboard and Arthur I use an app called Ampere’s to measure the charge rates and the game Overland to burn through the batteries. As a side note, the fastest way I could burn an iPad Pro battery was to have the game Overland on full brightness while charging another iPhone through a Qi-charger. Now I will admit that I don’t know how accurate Ampere is. The values seemed close to the meters that I have BUT for these tests, I wasn’t interested in the accuracy of the data, just the precision and subsequently relative change of the data. I used the exact same charger and cable for all tests and kept the iPad on airplane mode for the tests. On the data side, I only used values between 10 and 90 percent. I didn’t use anything under 10% because the start of each data set wasn’t always the same and I didn’t used anything above 90 percent because of trickle charging. So here's what I got as averages - With Test #1, it took approx 2.5 hours to charge - With Test #2, it was 2 hours and 25 minutes - With Test #3, it was 3 Hours and 57 minutes - With Test #4, it was 4 hours and 47 minutes - With Test #5, it was 4 hours and 20 minutes Did Monty and I just stumble on an Apple fail? Monty and I did three different discharge tests, with the first test tracking the time it took for the iPad Pro by itself to get the 10% battery warning, the second test involved running the battery down to 10% while attached to the Magic Keyboard and the last test was running it down to 10% with Arthur. Remember the large discrepancies with the charging? Well, they don’t really show up with the discharge tests. To drain the battery to 10% with just the iPad, took on average, about 2 hours and 23 minutes. With the Magic Keyboard on the iPad Pro but not really activated, it took about 2 hours and 4 minutes. With Arthur running, it was right under 2 hours. So this second set of tests really stumped me because unlike the charge tests, they weren’t that different. It almost felt like the iPad didn’t know what to do with Magic Keyboard. Should it be charging its battery or dedication all the power to the keyboard? What do you guys think? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to stay in the loop! We release 2-3 videos a week so there's going to be something new every week. We're all about helping you get the most out of iOS so click Subscribe! WEBSITE: http://www.mobilereviews-eh.ca T-SHIRTS: http://mobilereviewseh.spreadshirt.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/MobileReviewsEh INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mobilereviewseh TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MobileReviewsEh AARON: https://twitter.com/Aaron_The_Ho FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MobileReviewsEh