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What to do with an old iPad

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190 points owenmakes | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Coming back with my own blog (hosted on iPad 2) after asking here the same question
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clumsysmurf ◴[06 Sep 25 22:25 UTC] No.45153457[source]▶
Wouldn't "spicy pillow" be the main problem with old iPads? My iPad Air 4th gen doesn't have an option to limit charging to 80% etc.
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jraph ◴[06 Sep 25 22:35 UTC] No.45153537[source]▶
Good point. My old iPad's battery is still lasting very long, but I don't know how it would behave if it were indefinitely plugged.
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pndy ◴[06 Sep 25 23:14 UTC] No.45153779[source]▶
Then you're lucky. I had iPad 2 and Air 1. Older one is completely dead for 5 years now and doesn't react to plugged cable at all, while newer charges whole day and keeps battery for 4-5 hours.

Air 3 I've got on ebay-like site holds pretty well but the same model that my partner got from official dealer had always issues with touch recognition.

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1. jraph ◴[06 Sep 25 23:16 UTC] No.45153789{3}[source]▶
The battery might have been changed once, not sure about this.