iPad charging time

[ArGiEs]

I bought my wife an iPad 4 a few months ago; everything is fine but she has noticed that apparently it takes over ten hours to charge the battery from about 30% or so to full charge. Is this unusual? She's been using an Apple charger & lightning cable

 

[Fausty82]

I bought my wife an iPad 4 a few months ago; everything is fine but she has noticed that apparently it takes over ten hours to charge the battery from about 30% or so to full charge. Is this unusual? She's been using an Apple charger & lightning cable

Is she using the iPad charger (10W or 12W) that came with the iPad? It sounds like she?s using the iPhone/iPad Mini charger (5W).

 

[ArGiEs]

Not using the iPad mini one. We do have a bunch of charging cubes around our place, for iPod touches, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, and iPad 4. I'm having her try a different charger. I didn't realize there were different output levels

 

[ArGiEs]

Looking at your attachment, we have both, but she'e been using the cubes. I told her to try the larger one. We'll see how it goes

 

[Fausty82]

Looking at your attachment, we have both, but she'e been using the cubes. I told her to try the larger one. We'll see how it goes

The power requirements of the iPad 1/2/3/4 is greater than the iPad Mini and the iPhone and iPod. The smaller chargers do not put out enough power to charge the full size iPads in a reasonable amount of time. BTW, the same is true if you try to charge it from your computer USB ports... they only put out 5W, as well. No bueno.

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

Make sure the bigger one she has is 12 watts instead of 10 watts. It still charges with 10, but slower.

 

[Tanbam]

I've got a larger one that is only 5W. Somehow, my kids always manage to stick me with that one...

 

[Peligro911]

Looking at your attachment, we have both, but she'e been using the cubes. I told her to try the larger one. We'll see how it goes

Check the bottoms of the cubes I think I have some ipad looking chargers that actually have the output of a iPhone charger. That's most likely the problem the ipad 4 should say 12w on the bottom

 

[ArGiEs]

We actually found the original charger finally; it reads 12 watts