{"id":1443,"date":"2015-01-24T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2015-01-24T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:33:43","slug":"how-do-i-get-longer-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/how-do-i-get-longer-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask an iPad: how do I get longer battery life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Constance is here to help<\/h2>\n<p>Welcome to the debut of a new feature we like to call &#8220;Ask an iPad&#8221;. The premise is straightforward: send in your iPad questions and once\u00a0a month, our very own iPad correspondent, an iPad2 named Constance, will cheerfully provide you with the answers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This first week&#8217;s question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dear Constance,<\/p>\n<p>It seems like the battery life of my iPad is pretty short. I feel like I keep having to plug it back in. Do you have any tips you could share? How do I get longer battery life on my iPad?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>iNeedMoreJuice&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Constance responds thusly.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 512px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1443-1\" width=\"512\" height=\"320\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cesstech-ipadusers\/files\/2013\/11\/constance2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cesstech-ipadusers\/files\/2013\/11\/constance2.mp4\">http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cesstech-ipadusers\/files\/2013\/11\/constance2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Other ways you can extend the life of your battery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/267863\/save-battery-life-background-app-refresh-ios-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">limit the number of apps that utilize Background App Refresh<\/a> (if you need any apps to use it at all)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gottabemobile.com\/2014\/10\/31\/how-to-turn-off-automatic-app-updates-in-ios-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">disable auto-update of apps.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/229932\/save-your-iphone-battery-turn-off-push-mail-and-push-notifications-ios-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">turn off &#8220;Push&#8221; notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT202613\" target=\"_blank\">turn down the brightness of the screen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a question for Ask an iPad, <a href=\"mailto:tiie@uvm.edu\">drop us a line<\/a> and we&#8217;ll get Constance right on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constance is here to help Welcome to the debut of a new feature we like to call &#8220;Ask an iPad&#8221;. The premise is straightforward: send in your iPad questions and once\u00a0a month, our very own iPad correspondent, an iPad2 named Constance, will cheerfully provide you with the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}