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How long does an iPad last?
I bought this in 2020. iPad Pro, 512 Gb. It’s literally falling apart. Friction tape around the edges. Charging port loose. Shimming the jack with a strip of paper. The thing is… I still love it, and it still works most of the time. Your experiences?
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Sounds like the build quality of the 2020 iPad Pro is a little shoddy. I still have a 2017 iPad Pro for sheet music reading, and it's still well maintained. I'm working on categorizing and tagging my sheet music collection on my M3 iPad Air. 😅 But the 2017 Pro still works a treat. Only caveat - it requires the lightning cable.
Last iPad I used for 10 years.
Current iPad (9th gen w/headphone jack) I got in spring of 2020 and no issues at all - still in near mint condition I’d say. Not sure but maybe will upgrade to new one next spring or so.
The Mrs has a 2017 10.5 Pro. I used to use it for two years while commuting 2.5 hours a day, in and out of bags, rain, snow, shine, even under an umbrella at the train station. Since then the Mrs uses it on a stand in the living room as her main device. Still motors along great, charges like a champ, screen is perfect, apple pencil works etc, zero issues.
Then I had a 2019 base model that died after 13 months.
I have a 2021 M1 Pro now and it works perfectly, like the day I bought it.
Still have an ipad mini2 from 2013 that I used in the workout room up until last year but sadly Youtube stopped supporting it. Netflix still works though.
There have been a few others, donated, traded in, i do recall one other dud etc. but overall I am pretty amazed at their longevity.
Still on iPad Pro 9.7" from 2016. I've kept it on iOS 13.5, originally for jailbreak reasons but nowadays just to run a stable of irreplaceable vintage apps. Props to all the devs who continue to support these older versions; updates in past 10 days include Oscidia, Multitrack Studio, Guitar Gravitas, PatternBud, Dubstation 2, Mynth, n-Track Studio, Continua, Audio Evolution, sEGments, MIDITrail, Scope, and all the SWAMs. Rock-solid and battery holding up amazingly.
My ipad 2nd gen just died a week ago.
That's what happens from playing all that speed-metal.
2019 model here. Touch wood but it looks and acts like new.
I’ve had a lot of iPads - The only thing that stops them for me is when they will not update the OS any further and eventually become obsolete that way.
I'm on the iPad Pro 10.5" from 2017. It's still holding up beautifully, and I think Apple shouldn't have cut it off from OS updates.
2018 Pro 11” here. Still chugging without issues.
I also have an Air2 that works fine. Just slowly.
With my wife, they last until she wants a new device. Then unfortunate accidents mysteriously begin to happen.
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Thank you all for the feedback! Has anybody transferred old apps and files from older iPad to the new one? I have several older IAA apps that I really like, as well as several hundred music projects. I asked about this at the store, and the young lady said they can do it for $100. It sounds like it should be a simple process, but I don't know anything about it. Does that sound like a reasonable price? What are your experiences with this?
No need to pay $100 for that, they’re chancers lol.
Easy and fast to do it yourself using Quickstart:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102659
@Gavinski Thanks for that! It looks easy enough that even I can do it. Does everything work on the new device once they are transferred? I have had a few apps break with software updates. I imagine that the new hardware will cause a few glitches.
7th gen iPad here from 2019, looping away quite nicely. When i upgrade 1 of the kids next i will have a 9th gen, loads of life still left in it
I last did that a few years ago, it worked very smoothly and was a lot faster than I expected. If you're changing to a new operating system that's higher than your current one, some old might no longer work, I guess. No way around that!
I started with the 1rst and/or 2nd ipad. All ipads I’ve got have held up at least as build quality is concerned.
Same for Macs and iPhones.
My first ioad> @Paulieworld said:
Are you using a good case. I have a 2017 iPad that is still in top shape. Even my iPad v3 from 2012 still works. The screen is cracked but that’s how I learned that you need to get a proper case when you are known like me for having butter fingers. 😋
I prefer a little bulk on my iPad to keep it safe.
I still have my 2nd generation iPad with 32Gb from new in 2011, the battery runs down very fast, I have Cubasis 2 installed along with loads of IAA synths that still work but the processor can’t handle very much before it starts to crackle, it is still in perfect condition in a padded leather case.
I think you might have loved it to an early death. Maybe look for a used unit that no one has loved yet and doesn’t value.
i've only ever had one ipad and here we are, ten years later. it's a 1st gen pro (bought in 2016). what really amazes me is that the battery's still fine but really, the whole thing's in good shape. no dings, cracks or wobbly ports etc. it's a well-built thing. i think of it as a digital synth.
That sounds a lot like my setup, i.e. Cubasis 2 with lots of IAA apps. I got around the CPU issue by freezing all MIDI to audio. That seems to work for me and my Rube Goldberg workflow. When I bought it, I didn’t even know it needed a case until my wife told me. I opted for a cheap one. I just had a similar problem with my phone. The battery started to swell and was pushing up the screen. It may have been a blessing in disguise, though. The guy at the store told me that batteries like this might explode. I keep mine in my front pocket. Fortunately, I got a new one with a strong case before anything happened.
Ive had about five, only one that died was an ipad air that stopped charging. I concluded it was from charging it with a cheap USB power adapter. Now I only use Apple chargers.
My wife has had about the same number and she managed to break most of them - broken charging jacks, home buttons, screens.
I also think of my iPad primarily as a digital synth. I don’t do games or social media. I’ve never been on TikTok, or ordered from Amazon. I tried social media for a short time, but found it to be a nasty place. I do like these music forums, though. The members are, for the most part, very friendly, creative, and smart. I think LPF is my favorite. I’m glad to be a member.
Very appropriate analogy. The good die young. I think I’ll pop for a new one soon. If I amortize the cost over my remaining years it’s a bargain, considering the joy it gives me. Speaking of joy, I hope you are having a bunch. Peace!
That’s the biggest problem for me. The charging port has become loose and I have resorted to putting a piece of paper in there to keep it tight. I don’t know if I have a battery problem. When I have Cubasis, AUM, AB3, and several synths running at the same time, I can see the charge dropping almost every minute, so I keep it plugged in and charging all the time. Probably not a good thing.
I used the 2nd generation iPad until 2021 when I bought the iPad Air 4, talk about super sonic speed, I couldn’t believe the difference, so sadly my old iPad no longer see’s the light of day
I think if you use audio recording instead of midi recording that it takes less CPU. Uncle Es tought me. So then I think an M1 pretty much last forever
I've had failed ports on several iPads. I got them replaced in third party stores. My old 2017 2nd Gen Pro is still alive but the battery is terrible and it's super slow. I hate using it and rarely do. I bought my current M1 iPad second hand a few years ago. It served me well until recently when it needed a complete system restore and I lost everything I hadn't backed up, which was a lot. Then a month or so later it stopped charging and I needed to get the IC card replaced. Again, did it in a third party store and it was pricey enough, I thought, at $100. So my own experience hasn't been brilliant. At these kind of prices I'd expect not to run into problems like this after just a few years, especially as I rarely take my iPad out and look after it well. That said, I have been a bit careless with sometimes using android USB C cables while charging it and that may have caused those problems I ran into. So yeah, as stupid as it is that you have to do so, it's better to stick to official Apple cables only I reckon.
i have iPad mini first generation, so probably decade old device - it still works like a breeze
Of course, you can't upate on new iOS version, but what is there that works just fine.