Just got your new iPad and wonder why the battery ran out so fast? Normally an iPad should last approximately 10 hours on a single charge. Of course, playing videos or any related heavy usage will likely drain the battery faster than just reading an ebook, so your actual battery life may vary depending on how you use your iPad. But there are many ways you can minimize power usage, thereby extending the daily life of your battery.

Like all batteries, your iPad’s battery will eventually wear out, but by then you’ll probably have a new iPad model anyway. Let go through some of the ways how you can conserve your iPad battery.

Recharging an iPad – There are two ways to recharge your iPad. If you want to use your iPad while it’s recharging, plug its USB cable and adapter into an electric outlet. This is also the fastest way to recharge your iPad. On the other hand, you can also plug your iPad into a computer’s USB outlet to recharge it.

Some computers with high-powered USB outlets will let you use your iPad as it charges. But if you plug the iPad into your computer and try to use it, you may see a “Not Charging” notice near the battery indicator. This indicates that your computer’s USB outlet is not high-powered, and that you cannot use the iPad as it is charging.

Turning Off Wi-Fi and 3G – If you are heavy Internet users, perhaps you should leave your Wi-Fi to be turned on all the time. It will be even require more energy and drains your iPad’s battery faster if iPad uses cellular phone network, which is the standard configuration of every iPad.

Turning Off Push Accounts – One of the unique feature of iPad is the Push service. If you have a supported Push Account e-mail accounts, such as yahoo.com, your email server can deliver new messages to your iPad automatically, so you don’t require to check your emails manually. Of course, by doing this also mean that your iPad consume more battery. So rule of thumb, turn off your iPad’s Push Accounts.

Turning Off Location Services – Another fancy feature of iPad, that used by some iPad apps, such as the Maps app, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and triangulation of cellular phone towers to identify the physical location of your iPad. If it knows your physical location in the world, an iPad app can help you to find any nearest restaurants, banks, convenience stores, gas station etc. Unfortunately, Location Services burns up battery energy. If you don’t need this type of service, you can turn it off to reduce power consumption.

Turning Off Blue tooth – Blue tooth is primarily used to connect an iPad wireless to a headset or keyboard. If you don’t use Blue tooth devices such as an external keyboard, turning off Blue tooth can save power and increase your iPad’s battery life.

Beside all the above tips, you may also want to consider these additional ideas for conserving power.

1. The simplest way to conserve battery power is to turn your iPad off every time if you don’t use it.
2. You can always invest in a battery pack even the iPad’s battery can last for approximately 10 hours.
3. Invest in solar panel that can use to recharge your iPad.

In conclusion, you should able to enjoy your iPad without any out of battery power issue if you combine both conservation techniques with additional power sources such as battery pack or solar panel.

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