Recently I noticed that my iPad was not charging as quickly as it used to. Only a month or so ago I was impressed at how my iPad's battery would easily charge up to the 80% range in a couple short hours, but more recently the same charge time would produce a meager 10% if I was lucky. It was infuriating, and the only thing more infuriating was that I couldn't figure out why. After doing a bit of research this is what I discovered.
Being aware that the iPad requires more power to charge (10 watts), I was sure that I was using the right adapter, the one that came in the box with my iPad. However, I became increasingly aware that I had various iOS power adapters strewn all over the house which looked identical to what I assumed was the iPad charger as well as a few compact adapters, one of which came with my iPhone 4, and
