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Re:Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks – Windows Modern ... by rcarmo on Saturday December 03, 2022 @06:12PM (#33848487)
Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Modern iOS keeps polling and doing stuff in the background regardless.

I actually built two Shortcuts to simultaneously toggle low power mode and all wireless connectivity. I have an older iPad I use for videos and podcasts while exercising that lasts over a week by using those, with zero power usage in between sessions.

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Re:Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks – Windows Modern ... by gnicholas on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:18PM (#33849037)
I have found the same as GP. I have an iPad Mini Retina (2014?) and an iPad Pro (2018). I once ran a test with both of them in airplane mode, and the Mini outlasted the Pro by a mile.

My hypothesis is that the Mini still runs iOS, and the Pro runs iPadOS. I think I started noticing the Pro standby battery drain after "upgrading" the Pro to iPadOS, whenever that came out.

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