Optimize battery usage of GoodNotes
Goodnotes is a huge battery drainer, so I hope the next up date will optimize the app resources so it uses less power
We’re investigating the battery drain that happens for some users already.
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Deanna Meyer commented
I have a new Ipad Air 13 M2 and my battery drains very fast using Goodnotes and my Apple Pencil Pro. It charged to 80% (using this setting to save battery life) 1t 12pm and by 5:21pm Ipad battery is at 35%.
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Jason W- commented
I lost 10% of my battery in less than an hour with it just idling on the the app. Love the app! Ideally just make it not use the CPU (or minimal outside of cloud sync and such) when it’s not being interacted with.
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Macarena Navarrete Ceballo commented
My iPad M2 overheats with Goodnotes and drains my Battery
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Thomas Daniel commented
I am switching to a different app due to battery drain!
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Alfredo commented
First of all, thanks for making a great product. I can only begin to imagine all the hard work and thought that goes into this app.
Now, in terms of battery, I assume it is important to you to keep adding features but please consider leaving a way for users to disable these additional features in favor of a simplified UI, a streamlined UX, and most definitely a longer lasting battery. Some of us just need an experience as close to pen and paper as possible. -
𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗢𝗠 ✿ commented
How has this been an ongoing issue since 2014?!
GoodNotes, get on top of this as a priority please.
It’s absurd that this app uses so much battery even on a 2022 M1 iPad.I can run adobe on here with less battery usage. Please get dev team to solve this and have it displayed as a pop up feature when you do so we can all celebrate.
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Albin commented
Maybe you could add an option to only index pages when charging for example?
On my 7 months old iPad 2020 I get like 4-5 hours of screentime using only GoodNotes. Would expect a bit more -
eris commented
I have iPad 5th generation 2017 and GoodNotes really drains my battery, beforehand downloading and using the app I would charge the iPad once every 2 days, now I need multiple charges per day, it’s not normal how fast it drains it, I love the app but this issue needs to be looked into. It takes 78% of my battery usage, I don’t think that’s normal thing of an app to do.
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WhiteWhale commented
I have a 2018 iPad Pro 10.9inch and I have noticed that it does heat up. Looks like the issue has been reported for a while. Has there been any progress on this?
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Patrick commented
My non-M1 iPad Pro getting VERY warm during usage. Indexing is turned off.
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Saradiya Konar commented
yup same issue. Drains the battery + heats up my ipad. I'm using the ipad pro 2021
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Peter commented
Terrible battery on iPad Pro. Can someone look into this please, as opposed to just allow lazy code to run unoptimised on bigger and bigger chips?
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Laura Lopes commented
This is one of the apps that use daily. I use it both for work and for studying. I have an iPad Air 4 (2020). The app makes my iPad lose battery pretty fast and it gets super hot. During the summer it was very difficult writing on it. Now that is winter at least I don't sweat as much. I also use Procreate and Affinity Photo almost daily and those apps do not drain the battery or make my iPad feels like I can cook an egg over it.
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Anonymous commented
Same issue, it drains battery crazy. I'm using ipad pro 2020.
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Anonymous commented
Please fix battery drain on older devices, please don't increase processing based in M1 chips
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Elin commented
The solution to my GoodNotes battery drainage problem was that I recently changed my standard template to one that I found online. Once I switched back to the original GoodNotes templates that is included in the app, my iPad stopped overheating.
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Michael van Es commented
Goodnotes5 heavy drains battery on IpadPro: what is happening?
Is the use of processor capacity only for Goodnotes or is a non-goodnotes related calculation part of the program?Kindly resolve this power surge
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Anonymous commented
When using good notes my new iPad Pro heats up and battery drains very quickly
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Nitin S Yadav commented
Note taking is the only thing that I have been doing in my new iPad Air 4 using GoodNotes 5.My battery is draining really fast and iPad gets heated up minutes after I start using GoodNotes which makes my writing hand sweaty which hampers my note taking speed.pls fix this if not I would shift to note ability soon
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aina suñer rullan commented
My Ipad gets hot when I'm using the app and I have to stop using it for a minutes. Also it drains the battery so hard. Please you guys have to improve this seriously.