iPad Air (5th Generation)

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iPad Air (5th Generation)

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Is the 5th Gen iPad Air (M1) still powerful enough today?

Those who get a 64 GB iPad shold be aware of this first: The 5th gen iPad Air will get Apple Intelligence. Which means that iPadOS + Apple Intelligence uses around 25 GB storage. on top of that you should reserve around 15 GB as the system area where iPadOS and the apps do their work. So you really

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Fabulinius in r/ipad

March 3, 2026 5:04 PM

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iPad OS 26.1 is awesome!

The latest iPadOS 26.1 update is not good on my iPad Air 5th generation tablet. I continue to have problems with Apple's Safari App that started after I updated this same iPad to iPadOS 26.0.1. The problem here is Apple's Safari App continues to not be able to load any websites including email accou

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CommunicationRude387 in r/iPadOS

November 5, 2025 1:51 AM

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Users of iPad Air (5th generation) with battery health around 80% and 600–700 cycles — how has your battery life been in daily use? How many hours of screen time do you usually get?

I bought my Air M1 5th gen in March 2023 and it has around 86% SoH left. I don’t remember the amount of cycles out of my head. The battery life is not far from awful tbh… Sometimes I get around 7 hours of usage and sometimes it burns through 8% of battery in 10 minutes of photo editing (Apple Photos

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DavidBelgium in r/ipad

April 4, 2026 8:25 PM

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iPad OS 26.1 is awesome!

This is an iPadOS issue since I did not have any issues with Apple's free Safari (web browser) app especially the issue with Apple's free Safari (web browser) app not loading any websites including any email accounts at all until I upgraded my iPad Air 5th generation tablet to iPadOS 26.0.1 that is

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CommunicationRude387 in r/iPadOS

November 5, 2025 5:47 AM

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Vault has become hell

I use PC it’s also high end and sometimes the server splits when I use my alt which I am using my iPhone 8. I would love to use my iPad Air (5th generation) but sky crashes at the TCG logo, I’ve asked the discord twice before being told to go to the in game support and not much has changed since. It

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Justrandomandcool in r/SkyGame

December 19, 2025 7:05 AM

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Is the 5th Gen iPad Air (M1) still powerful enough today?

If your main priority is extended display support for studies (notes on iPad + lecture on external screen), both the Apple 11" iPad Wi‑Fi (A16) and the Apple 11" iPad Air Wi‑Fi + Cellular (M1) only mirror the display — they don’t offer a true extended desktop where you use the external screen as a s

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i_m_dignity in r/ipad

March 3, 2026 7:42 PM

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My son wants to play Minecraft and I’m ignorant.

The cheapest iPad with that much ram would be the iPad Air 5th generation. Even refurbished that’s $259. Not quite sure I want to pay that for my 6 year old to have a tablet, but thank you for that insight.

bearasia1 in r/Minecraft

September 10, 2025 2:48 AM

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iPhone Volume Control Is Static, While iPad's Is Orientation‑Aware. Why?

Crap! Ten seconds of Googling told me: ‘…this option is not available on newer models like the iPad Air (5th generation) and iPad Pro, as Apple has removed the ability to disable dynamic volume controls for these devices.’

Assman-2006 in r/ipad

October 11, 2025 1:54 AM

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Can someone please explain the hate for iPadOS26?

When I got my iPad Air 5th generation, I used slide over a lot, after a few months I stopped, I mainly used it when I was addicted to warpath, but that was in like around 2022, so when I stopped playing that game, I stopped basically all use of slide over, I also forgot it even existed, and is used

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Square-Dimension5872 in r/iPadOS

October 4, 2025 12:33 PM

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Helpp

literally the worst company ever, I’ve bought an iPad Air 5th gen 2022 in month of September 2025 in their so called “superb” condition after a few months I noticed an issue which was the Touch ID wasn’t working on charging so I contacted Cashify and they told me it can be repaired under warranty th

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ZookeepergameLife859 in r/ipad

April 8, 2026 11:10 AM

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