October 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils utterly redesigned iPad in 4 vibrant colours
That includes a big 10.9-inch Liquid Retina show, the highly effective A14 Bionic chip, superior cameras, quick wi-fi connectivity, USB-C, help for the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio, and extra
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment launched the brand new iPad with an all-screen design that includes a big 10.9-inch Liquid Retina show. The brand new iPad is powered by the A14 Bionic chip, which delivers even sooner efficiency with unimaginable energy effectivity for demanding duties whereas nonetheless offering all-day battery life.1 Up to date cameras embrace an Extremely Huge 12MP entrance digital camera situated alongside the panorama fringe of iPad for an excellent higher video calling expertise, and an up to date 12MP again digital camera to seize sharp, vivid photographs and 4K video. A USB-C port helps a variety of equipment, Wi-Fi 6 brings even sooner connections, and mobile fashions function superfast 5G so customers can keep related on the go. Designed particularly for the brand new iPad, the all-new Magic Keyboard Folio options an unimaginable typing expertise, a click-anywhere trackpad, and a flexible two-piece design. With iPadOS 16 and help for Apple Pencil (1st era),2 iPad provides customers extra methods to be inventive and productive. The brand new iPad is offered to order beginning right this moment, with availability in shops starting Wednesday, October 26.
“We’re so excited to deliver the utterly redesigned iPad to our most superior iPad lineup ever,” stated Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Worldwide Advertising and marketing. “With a big 10.9-inch Liquid Retina show, highly effective A14 Bionic chip, a first-ever panorama entrance digital camera, quick wi-fi connectivity, USB-C, and help for unimaginable equipment like the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio, the brand new iPad delivers extra worth, extra versatility — and is solely extra enjoyable.”
New All-Display screen Design in 4 Vibrant Finishes
The brand new iPad options an all-screen design in 4 attractive finishes — blue, pink, yellow, and silver. The gorgeous 10.9-inch Liquid Retina show extends to the sides, so customers have much more display screen space for apps, video games, and having enjoyable on iPad — all in practically the identical dimension because the earlier era. The brand new Liquid Retina show gives an exquisite visible expertise with 2360×1640-pixel decision, practically 4 million pixels, 500 nits of brightness, and True Tone expertise. Contact ID strikes to the highest button of iPad, making it seamless to unlock, log in to apps, or use Apple Pay.
A14 Bionic Brings Extra Efficiency to iPad
The highly effective A14 Bionic chip involves iPad, delivering a 20 p.c improve in CPU and 10 p.c enchancment in graphics over the earlier era. This makes the brand new iPad as much as 5x sooner than the best-selling Android pill,3 and for customers seeking to improve from a tool like iPad (seventh era), they’ll see as much as 3x enchancment in general efficiency with the brand new iPad. Superior machine studying features are powered by a 16-core Neural Engine in A14 Bionic — providing double the variety of cores of A13 — boosting machine studying capabilities by as much as 80 p.c. For on a regular basis duties like engaged on a faculty challenge, enhancing a high-resolution video, or enjoying a graphics-intensive sport, A14 Bionic brings outstanding efficiency and effectivity.
Superior Cameras and Audio
For the primary time on any iPad, the front-facing digital camera is now situated alongside the panorama edge. Whether or not customers are on a FaceTime name or recording a video for social media, they’ll at all times be wanting proper towards the digital camera. The panorama Extremely Huge entrance digital camera with a 12MP sensor and 122-degree discipline of view helps Heart Stage, which routinely pans and zooms to maintain customers in view as they transfer round. The upgraded 12MP Huge again digital camera on iPad delivers high-resolution photographs and detailed 4K video with help for 240-fps slo-mo.
Twin microphones are designed to work in unison with the cameras, capturing audio from the digital camera getting used and minimizing distracting background noise. New panorama stereo audio system, mixed with the bigger show on iPad, supply an ideal video-viewing expertise.
Wi-Fi 6, 5G, and USB-C for Quicker Connectivity
Customers can do much more on iPad with sooner wi-fi connectivity on the go. With new help for Wi-Fi 6, connections are 30 p.c sooner on the brand new iPad than the 802.11ac Wi-Fi supported on the earlier era. Mobile fashions with 5G permit iPad to succeed in peak speeds of as much as 3.5Gbps in splendid situations,4 offering customers seamless entry to information, communication with buddies, and streaming content material from wherever they’re. Mixed with continued help for Gigabit LTE, bodily SIM playing cards, and eSIM with on-device activation, iPad provides superb flexibility in relation to connectivity. The USB-C port helps a variety of equipment and sooner cost instances when used with greater energy charging adapters.
Equipment
Equipment lengthen the flexibility of iPad and open up much more prospects for creativity and productiveness. The brand new Magic Keyboard Folio, designed for the brand new iPad, delivers an unimaginable typing expertise with full-size keys, 1 mm of journey, and responsive really feel. For the primary time, iPad could have a keyboard with a big trackpad and help for a click-anywhere expertise and Multi-Contact gestures, which makes scrolling, swiping, pinching, and shifting the cursor much more seamless. The brand new 14-key operate row permits for straightforward entry to shortcuts and on a regular basis duties, like adjusting the quantity or show brightness. The extremely configurable and versatile two-piece design features a removable keyboard and a protecting again cowl that attaches magnetically to iPad. The keyboard magnetically attaches to the Good Connector on the sting of iPad, which gives energy and knowledge. This implies the keyboard by no means must be charged or paired, and customers can simply fold the keyboard behind iPad or detach it fully. The again cowl has an adjustable stand for much more flexibility when enjoying video games, watching video, and extra.
iPadOS 16 Brings Highly effective New Options
iPadOS 16 introduces new productiveness and collaboration options, so customers can get much more executed on iPad.
- New options in Messages permit customers to edit or unsend not too long ago despatched messages, recuperate not too long ago deleted messages, and mark conversations as unread to allow them to come again to them later.5 There are additionally new collaboration options in Messages that make beginning and managing shared initiatives fast and seamless.
- Freeform, a strong new productiveness app constructed into iPadOS with a versatile canvas and full help for Apple Pencil, offers customers the power to see, share, and collaborate multi function place.6
- iCloud Shared Photograph Library permits customers to share photographs seamlessly and routinely amongst as much as six members of the family.
- Safari provides shared Tab Teams to browse the net with others, and the shopping expertise will get much more safe with passkeys.
- In Mail, customers can now schedule emails forward of time and are even given a second to cancel supply of a message earlier than it reaches a recipient’s inbox.7
- The Climate app involves iPad, designed to take full benefit of the gorgeous show with lovely animations, and with only a faucet, customers can see an important climate info.
- Reside Textual content makes use of on-device intelligence to acknowledge textual content in pictures throughout the system, and the function now involves video, making textual content utterly interactive in paused video frames. Visible Look Up now permits customers to elevate the topic from a picture or isolate a topic by eradicating the background with only a faucet.
iPad and the Setting
The brand new iPad fashions are designed to attenuate their impression on the atmosphere and embrace — a primary for iPad — one hundred pc recycled gold within the plating of a number of printed circuit boards. The brand new iPad can be the primary iPad to function recycled copper, with one hundred pc recycled copper within the foil of the principle logic board. It additionally options recycled aluminum, tin, and uncommon earth components. All iPad fashions meet Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity and are mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. Redesigned packaging eliminates the outer plastic wrap, and 97 p.c of the packaging is fiber based mostly, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of utterly eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
Right this moment, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be one hundred pc carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Because of this each Apple system offered, from element manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all through recycling and materials restoration, could have net-zero local weather impression.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new iPad is offered to order beginning right this moment, October 18, at apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 28 nations and areas, together with the US, with availability in shops starting Wednesday, October 26.
- Wi-Fi fashions of the brand new iPad can be found with a beginning worth of $449 (US), and Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions begin at $599 (US). The brand new iPad, in 64GB and 256GB configurations, is available in blue, pink, yellow, and silver.
- Apple Pencil (1st era) is suitable with the brand new iPad. A brand new USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is required for pairing and charging and is included within the field with a brand new model of Apple Pencil (1st era) for $99 (US).
- For present house owners of Apple Pencil (1st era), the USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is offered individually for $9 (US).
- The brand new Magic Keyboard Folio designed for the brand new iPad is offered for $249 (US) and is available in white.
- The brand new Good Folio designed for the brand new iPad is offered for $79 (US) in white, sky, watermelon, and lemonade.
- iPad (ninth era) will stay within the iPad lineup. Wi-Fi fashions of iPad (ninth era) can be found with a beginning worth of $329 (US), and Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions begin at $459 (US), in silver and area grey finishes.
- Schooling pricing is offered to present and newly accepted faculty college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, employees, and home-school academics of all grade ranges. Wi-Fi fashions of the brand new iPad can be found with a beginning worth of $419 (US), the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio is offered for $229 (US), and Apple Pencil (1st era) is offered for $89 (US). For extra info go to apple.com/us-hed/store.
- iPadOS 16, the highly effective working system designed particularly for iPad, is offered starting Monday, October 24, and ships free of charge with the brand new iPad. iPadOS 16 can be obtainable as a free software program replace for iPad (fifth era and later), iPad mini (fifth era and later), iPad Air (third era and later), and all iPad Professional fashions.
- Prospects can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one. When their system has been obtained and verified, Apple will credit score the worth to their fee methodology.
- Engrave iPad with a significant mixture of emoji, names, initials, and numbers, all free of charge, obtainable solely at apple.com/retailer or within the Apple Retailer app.
- Apple gives clients with plenty of providers in-store and on-line. From customized help and recommendation from Apple Specialists to handy supply and pickup choices, Apple ensures the easiest way to purchase Apple merchandise is from Apple Retailer places and apple.com/retailer.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Battery life varies by use and configuration.
- A brand new USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is required for pairing and charging and is included within the field with a brand new model of Apple Pencil (1st era). For present house owners of Apple Pencil (1st era), the USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is offered individually.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in September 2022 utilizing preproduction iPad (tenth era) methods with the Apple A14 Bionic chip, in addition to manufacturing MediaTek MT8768N-based Android pill methods with the newest model of Android 11 obtainable on the time of testing. Finest-selling methods are based mostly on publicly obtainable gross sales knowledge during the last 12 months. Methods had been examined with widespread duties in industrial purposes and choose industry-standard benchmarks. Efficiency will depend on system settings, utilization, atmosphere, and lots of different components. Efficiency exams are carried out utilizing particular methods and replicate the approximate efficiency of iPad.
- 5G wi-fi plan and protection is required. Speeds will range. Verify with carriers for particulars.
- Customers can edit a message for as much as quarter-hour after sending it and may unsend a message for as much as 2 minutes after sending it. Customers could make as much as 5 edits to a given message, and recipients will be capable to see a report of edits made to the message.
- Freeform can be obtainable in an replace to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this 12 months.
- Customers can cancel supply of an electronic mail for as much as 30 seconds after sending.
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