Customer Ratings & Reviews

The convenience of the vacuum helps me with many tasks

Worked great! Very pleased with the power of this product.

Love it so much! It’s lightweight, bends to go under couches and beds.

Best vacuum ever ! The light shows all the dust and dog hair and it's easy to get under the couch

Great Product, easy to use and powerful suction good value.

Now that we have all wood floors I needed a cordless to maintain with ease and this is perfect. Love how it can get under things too and how it adjusts to my rugs too.

Sometimes it is hard to push and it can be rough for move about. But the suction is very good and gives decent clean for the size of it. It might be just under the Dyson competition.

Appreciate "the headlights" and articulating head!

Like its light weight but a bit disappointed with the length the battery lasts.

I was looking for a vacuum that would be portable, have a detachable hand vacuum, and be powerful at the same time. This Shark PowerDetect vacuum checks all of those boxes and does an excellent job! There are so many great things about this vacuum! The main vacuum attachment folds down in the middle so you can vacuum under hard to reach places. There are three vacuum settings, including an automatic dirt and debris detection mode, an eco mode, and a high power mode. In the automatic detection mode, the vacuum detects the amount of dust and debris as you vacuum and adjusts the amount of suction power accordingly. Eco mode allows you to get the most possible run time out of your unit, and the high power mode offers the maximum amount of power at all times. I am impressed by the amount of suction power this vacuum has while also being very quiet at the same time. Our previous cordless vacuum is not as powerful and is also much louder than this Shark vacuum. This vacuum also has some very unique features. When vacuuming on carpet, it detects the carpet and increases suction and cleaning power to get everything up. Another great feature on this vacuum is it has an easily detachable battery. With that, you can recharge the battery separate from the main unit, and, if you need additional cleaning time, you can purchase an additional battery to use while one battery is recharging. The main vacuuming unit has LED lights to help illuminate the areas you are vacuuming which is great. From my usage, this vacuum did a great job at picking up all kinds of dirt and debris. And being able to detach the main unit and use this as a portable hand vacuum is very nice for vacuuming in all kinds of different places. Overall, this is an excellent vacuum that I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a powerful and convenient cordless vacuum!

Started smelling like burnt I thought it was because it was new. Well now I’m stuck with it past the return time and shark is terrible and getting back to me. I’m disabled and can’t get around. I wish I would have known before spending my last on this.

Big upgrade from our old shark vacuum. No more cords! We love it

Purchased on sale, and very happy with the quality.

Easy to use. Good portability. Decent run time at 50% capacity.

Excellent value. Hair does not wrap around and get stuck. lightweight

It is good vacuum. I like it so far.. it suck all dirt and hair on my carpet. Battery power is also good

The Shark IP1000 PowerDetect Cordless Vacuum is a powerful, modular vacuum with a number of advanced features that are hard to cover in a short review. It proved to be very capable of picking up quantities of dirt where I didn’t even think there was any, and we now store it in a place where it’s convenient to access for both regular use as well as for picking up after the inevitable household “accidents”. I should probably mention that a number of its features are oriented toward picking up pet hair and other pet-related dirt, but since we have no pets I’m unable to address those concerns. The well-packed carton contains the main handheld vacuum unit; a long, hinged wand; floor nozzle; a crevice tool; and a “pet multi-tool”. There are some other tools available from the Shark web site. The modular design allows any of the tools to be connected directly to the handheld unit or to the end of the wand. The most-used configuration is the handheld unit with the wand and the floor nozzle at the bottom. The floor nozzle is a lot more than just a nozzle and has various rotating parts and LED lights. This is our first cordless vacuum of this type and there were some things to get used to. Mainly, it will not stand up unsupported due to the weight of the handheld unit. Folding over the hinge on the wand does allow it to stand upright and is the best way to store it without having to hang it on a wall or something, but it’s also necessary when using it in case you need to stop vacuuming to move a piece of furniture etc. It’s either that or lay it down on something. Either way, a minor inconvenience but it goes along with these types of devices with heavy batteries at the upper end. The hinge also serves another purpose in that it can be used to allow the floor nozzle to get underneath furniture like chairs and such. Clever! In use you can switch among three modes using a trigger on the handle. There is an Eco mode and a Boost mode, but the best results will come from the default Auto-Detect mode. When using it, I could tell that the vacuum strength varied depending on the surface it was on as well as what dirt it was detecting. There’s an indicator on the back panel that’s supposed to show how much dirt is being extracted, but frankly our place doesn’t get dirty to the point where we could really test this out. The first place that we tried it out was on our kitchen and dinette area floor, which is done in a high-end linoleum. The floor certainly didn’t look dirty and I expected it to just pick up a few crumbs and such, so was surprised when I was finished and saw how much was in the dust cup! So that was very impressive and I’ll be anxious to see what it finds the next time we use it in that area. One unique feature is that when you run it along a wall or baseboard, it senses it and not only increases the vacuum power at the edge, but also focuses the LED lights in the same direction. Very nice for getting dirt out of that inconvenient angle. When finished, it is very easy to release the hinged dust cup for emptying. There’s also another button that lets you remove the entire dust cup assembly. This is mainly for gaining access to the HEPA filter that should occasionally be cleaned, but it’s also nice for letting you rinse out the dust cup assembly to remove the finer dust particles that stick to the clear plastic. Although a great product for its intended purpose, I wouldn’t use this as a replacement for a more traditional upright vacuum. Mainly, while it’s very good on hard surfaces and low-pile rugs, it is too hard to push on carpeting with a medium to deep pile. And in general there’s no way to hide the fact that overall it’s pretty heavy and that weight is all up by your hand. For example, the box has a picture of someone having it configured with the handheld unit, wand, and crevice tool and holding it in one hand while cleaning in the upper corner of a room. That is something that I could barely do and my wife not at all! Of course, most users will probably be younger, so maybe it’s not as big of an issue as it is for us; just something to be aware of. Overall this product is convenient to use and has features that make it well worth owning as a second vacuum, or possibly as the only vacuum in a smaller space.

This vacuum is terrible! Dog hair gets stuck on the felt role brush and keeps it from turning. The battery only lasts about 20 minutes. The low setting will pick up nothing. Waste of money.

Battery only lasts 20 minutes. Suppose to be a 70 minute battery.

I never thought I would ever say this, but I think this vacuum is going to replace my Dyson! I will start out by saying that my last 5 vacuums have all been Dyson’s. I haven’t found anything that worked as well and was as easy to use…..until now. Out of the box you can tell this is a well-built machine. It is very minimalistic and just comes with the main wand, a brush and wand attachment and the main brush head. I love the simplicity of having the brushes for both carpet and hard floors in the same brush head. It saves a ton of time by not having to constantly change heads if you have a house with both carpet and hard surfaces like mine. Another thing I absolutely love is that this one actually has lights on it, a lot of them! I know this may seem like a no-brainer, but if you have ever owned a stick vacuum from the other guys, you will know the frustration of not having lights. It has both front and rear lights and they actually will change based on what the vacuum is doing to give you a visual cue. Normally they are just a white color on the front and a purple-ish color on the back. If you get close to a wall the light on the back will only be on towards the side where the wall is and you will hear the motor kick up a notch. That’s because this can actually sense when you are close to a wall and it sends more power to that side to suck up everything that is in the crack along the wall. As soon as you get away from the wall, the motor spins down and it goes back to normal operation. You will also notice a power and brush change when you switch from carpet to a hard surface and back again. I found this worked amazingly well at detecting what type of surface I was vacuuming and when I was close to a wall or not. I was actually pretty amazed at how easily this switched everything for me and all I had to do was run it back and forth. Another thing I love is that it has a power button and it just stays on versus having to constantly hold down a trigger. I get how that can save a little power having a trigger, but it can really start to hurt your hand after a while. With the Shark, I cleaned my entire house and didn’t have any hand or arm fatigue. This vacuum does have a trigger, but it is just for switching from eco, to regular, and high speed modes if you want to do it manually instead of letting the vacuum handle the switching for you. This vacuum also has another little secret up its sleeve and that is when you press a release button, the arm of the vacuum goes into an L shape making it extremely easy to get under furniture. While it didn’t get under all of my furniture due to the height, I would say it got under about 70% of my furniture and I was able to vacuum areas that haven’t been vacuumed in years simply because my old vacuum couldn’t reach them. This bending is also how you store the vacuum, you just bend it and then it can stand up on its own for easy storage. As far as the power goes. There is always one test I like to do. Vacuum with my old vacuum, and then vacuum with the new one and see what my old one left behind. I did that test with my Dyson, and this is the latest and greatest Dyson, not an older model. After I finished with the shark I had almost ¾ of a tank full of dirt that the Dyson left behind. That was the icing on the cake and made me switch to the Shark as my main vacuum. The other one will become the basement vacuum. One last thing, the battery life on the Shark is amazing too. I was able to easily clean my 2400 square foot home and have lots of power left to spare. If you are looking for a new vacuum, this is the one you want. If you are a current user of the other brand that costs twice as much as this, you really should check this one out and see what you’ve been missing!