Screen Timeout "Never" on one ipad but not the other

[Capn Bloggs]

Not being an expert on ithingees, I thought I'd ask the experts here.

Mrs Bloggs has an ipad Air 2 and it has a "Never" setting for her screen timeout, which is great when using it to follow recipes.

Mine, a ipad "5th generation", doesn't have that opton; it only has the times. As I do a fair amount of cooking (via recipes!) this is really annoying because I've got to wake it up after 15 minutes, passcode in (fingers too grubby for touch ID), then fire up Evernote (recipe holder) and passcode in to it as well (Evernote doesn't have a screen timeout disable that I can find).

Both are on ipados 13.4.1.

Can anybody shed any light on why I don't have "Never"? Does anybody else have a 5th gen ipad that does has "Never".

[Ancient Observer]

Mine is on 12.4.5. It has the Never option.
an iPad Air.

[PJD1]

Do you by any chance have a works e-mail account on it that uses an Exchange Server? If so that will likely be the reason, these types of account can be set to disable the "Never" option for security reasons (the only way around this would be to remove the e-mail account from the device). The only other possibility I can think of is that low power mode is switched on (Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode), if that is on it would also disable the "Never" option.

[Capn Bloggs]

PJD1, how right you are. :D

I deleted my work email account and hey presto, "Never" appeared.

Happy days in the kitchen! :ok:

[Ancient Observer]

SWMBO doesn't want to be poisoned while we are in prison together. So "Happy days in the kitchen" are all hers.

[Capn Bloggs]

AO, surely you could cope with Baked Beans on toast? Done from the ipad (that never turns off now) recipe?! :)