Why is my IPad taking 3 days to charge?

Why is my IPad taking 3 days to charge.

How are you charging it? If you are using the outlet adapter and the cable provided with the device, it should only take an hour or two to fully charge.
If, however, you are using a non-Mac PC (or a much older Mac) and attempting to charge using the USB port on your computer, then that might be a problem.
A standard USB port on a PC has a max power output of 2.5W (5V @ 500mA). A USB port on a late-model Mac has a max power output of 5.5W (5V @ 1100mA). In practice, some PCs don't always put out a full 2.5W (particularly if there are other devices on the bus draining power).
If you plug an iPad into a standard PC USB port, the iPad will trickle-charge while the iPad is turned off. It's slow, but it will eventually charge. If you plug it into a Mac, the iPad will negotiate a 5W connection (the Mac can only support high-power mode on a a certain number of ports concurrently), and the iPad will charge, but slower than using the wall charger.
If this is the issue, the solution is simply to use the wall charger and don't attempt to use your computer to charge the iPad.

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drsailer wrote:
Michael,
If I'm not mistaken, charge cycle on an iPad is the same as on a Mac portable computer. 1 charge cycle = 100% discharge. So, 92-100 would only be 8% of a charge cycle. If you charge your iPad from 50% to 100% on 2 separate days, that is only 1 charge cycle, not 2.
You're correct, and I'm remiss in using the same term as Apple does in their literature (which, btw, is pretty good on this topic) without it meaning the same thing to me. I should instead be saying something like charging actions, I.e., the simple matter of plugging in and charging up.
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The question then, is whether there is any downside to having multiple charging actions every day, as in perhaps plugging it into a charger whenever it's not in use. My own answer to that is yes, it will have one. How significant? Don't know, and no way to tell without running some long, boring trials. All I can say is that, for me, the advantages in avoiding that pattern of use are obvious enough, even while admitting we are still years away of being able to know if battery life is going to bs the main driver in EOL decisions on our happy little machines.
I agree, though, on the exact battery readout. I was just trying to explain the behavior. And the indicators are notoriously inaccurate.
And will become more so, per Apple and other guidance, if you omit the "monthly run it to empty".

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Why is my IPad taking 3 days to charge?

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