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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024
I just replaced my 7th generation iPad with this one. I love the new iPad, with the exception that the iPad doesn’t hold its battery charge as claimed by the manufacturer. Here are the differences I noticed between the two models, explained as best I can from a basic user’s perspective. I hope this helps someone/
- There is no longer a “home button” on the IPad; instead, you must swipe up to get back to your home page. This is simple enough and something many of us are likely familiar with from more recent versions of the iPhone.
- The visual screen display is slightly crisper than on my 7th generation iPad.
- The dock is clearly shown at the bottom of the screen and is expanded to include not only the sites you visit most, but the last four sites you visited.
- To clear apps you have opened and not closed, you can no longer press the home button twice in quick succession. You now have to swipe up gently until these apps appear in separate “boxes.” You can then swipe them off the page one at a time to get rid of them, as you wish.
- The iPad uses an usb-c charger that is not compatible with the usb-c charger for your iPhone or with earlier iPad chargers. The correct charger is included with the iPad.
- The iPad charges much faster with the usb-c cable than with earlier iPad chargers.
- The one negative issue I noted has to do with how long the iPad stays charged, especially with extended use. Apple claims it will stay charged for the full day. It does not. In fact, I’m not sure that it stays charged notably longer than my 7th generation iPad.
- A word on storage. The base level 7th Generation iPad had 32 GB of storage, which seemed like plenty when I bought it. But as new apps took more size and I wanted to do more things, it wasn’t. On my Seventh Generation IPad, approximately half of my 32 GB storage is devoted to the iPad operating system and System Data, leaving little discretionary storage, especially when a new software update requires over 7 GB of storage. I can only see needs for data storage increasing in the future. The sole reason I’m updating my current iPad is lack of storage. I don’t want to face that problem again. If you run a fair number of apps (especially apps like Netflix, YouTube, etc.), like to download video content, play games, have an extensive number of photos, save documents, and so forth, I would give serious consider upgrading from the current base model’s 64 GB of storage to 256 GB. I’m guessing 64 GB may soon be insufficient, too.
This point isn’t an iPad comparison, but a note on the technology the iPad supports. This iPad requires the 1st generation IPad pencil, not the 2nd, which was a surprise to me, as the 2nd Generation pencil had already been released.
- There is no longer a “home button” on the IPad; instead, you must swipe up to get back to your home page. This is simple enough and something many of us are likely familiar with from more recent versions of the iPhone.
- The visual screen display is slightly crisper than on my 7th generation iPad.
- The dock is clearly shown at the bottom of the screen and is expanded to include not only the sites you visit most, but the last four sites you visited.
- To clear apps you have opened and not closed, you can no longer press the home button twice in quick succession. You now have to swipe up gently until these apps appear in separate “boxes.” You can then swipe them off the page one at a time to get rid of them, as you wish.
- The iPad uses an usb-c charger that is not compatible with the usb-c charger for your iPhone or with earlier iPad chargers. The correct charger is included with the iPad.
- The iPad charges much faster with the usb-c cable than with earlier iPad chargers.
- The one negative issue I noted has to do with how long the iPad stays charged, especially with extended use. Apple claims it will stay charged for the full day. It does not. In fact, I’m not sure that it stays charged notably longer than my 7th generation iPad.
- A word on storage. The base level 7th Generation iPad had 32 GB of storage, which seemed like plenty when I bought it. But as new apps took more size and I wanted to do more things, it wasn’t. On my Seventh Generation IPad, approximately half of my 32 GB storage is devoted to the iPad operating system and System Data, leaving little discretionary storage, especially when a new software update requires over 7 GB of storage. I can only see needs for data storage increasing in the future. The sole reason I’m updating my current iPad is lack of storage. I don’t want to face that problem again. If you run a fair number of apps (especially apps like Netflix, YouTube, etc.), like to download video content, play games, have an extensive number of photos, save documents, and so forth, I would give serious consider upgrading from the current base model’s 64 GB of storage to 256 GB. I’m guessing 64 GB may soon be insufficient, too.
This point isn’t an iPad comparison, but a note on the technology the iPad supports. This iPad requires the 1st generation IPad pencil, not the 2nd, which was a surprise to me, as the 2nd Generation pencil had already been released.
