October 18, 2022
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils fully 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, assist for the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio, and extra
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right now 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 quicker efficiency with unimaginable energy effectivity for demanding duties whereas nonetheless offering all-day battery life.1 Up to date cameras embody an Extremely Huge 12MP entrance digital camera situated alongside the panorama fringe of iPad for a fair 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 quicker connections, and mobile fashions characteristic 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 assist for Apple Pencil (1st era),2 iPad affords customers extra methods to be artistic and productive. The brand new iPad is out there to order beginning right now, with availability in shops starting Wednesday, October 26.
“We’re so excited to convey the fully redesigned iPad to our most superior iPad lineup ever,” mentioned Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vp 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 assist for unimaginable equipment like the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio, the brand new iPad delivers extra worth, extra versatility — and is just extra enjoyable.”
New All-Display 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 perimeters, so customers have much more display screen space for apps, video games, and having enjoyable on iPad — all in almost the identical dimension because the earlier era. The brand new Liquid Retina show gives an attractive visible expertise with 2360×1640-pixel decision, almost 4 million pixels, 500 nits of brightness, and True Tone know-how. 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 % improve in CPU and 10 % enchancment in graphics over the earlier era. This makes the brand new iPad as much as 5x quicker than the best-selling Android pill,3 and for customers trying to improve from a tool like iPad (seventh era), they’ll see as much as 3x enchancment in total 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 %. For on a regular basis duties like engaged on a college undertaking, enhancing a high-resolution video, or enjoying a graphics-intensive recreation, A14 Bionic brings exceptional 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 all the time be wanting proper towards the digital camera. The panorama Extremely Huge entrance digital camera with a 12MP sensor and 122-degree subject of view helps Middle Stage, which robotically 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 assist 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 excellent video-viewing expertise.
Wi-Fi 6, 5G, and USB-C for Sooner Connectivity
Customers can do much more on iPad with quicker wi-fi connectivity on the go. With new assist for Wi-Fi 6, connections are 30 % quicker on the brand new iPad than the 802.11ac Wi-Fi supported on the earlier era. Mobile fashions with 5G enable iPad to succeed in peak speeds of as much as 3.5Gbps in splendid circumstances,4 offering customers seamless entry to information, communication with mates, and streaming content material from wherever they’re. Mixed with continued assist for Gigabit LTE, bodily SIM playing cards, and eSIM with on-device activation, iPad affords wonderful flexibility relating to connectivity. The USB-C port helps a variety of equipment and quicker cost instances when used with larger energy charging adapters.
Equipment
Equipment lengthen the flexibility of iPad and open up much more potentialities 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 may have a keyboard with a big trackpad and assist 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 Sensible Connector on the sting of iPad, which gives energy and information. This implies the keyboard by no means must be charged or paired, and customers can simply fold the keyboard behind iPad or detach it totally. 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 enable customers to edit or unsend just lately despatched messages, get better just lately 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 assist for Apple Pencil, provides customers the flexibility to see, share, and collaborate multi functional place.6
- iCloud Shared Photograph Library permits customers to share photographs seamlessly and robotically amongst as much as six members of the family.
- Safari provides shared Tab Teams to browse the net with others, and the searching 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 stunning animations, and with only a faucet, customers can see crucial climate info.
- Dwell Textual content makes use of on-device intelligence to acknowledge textual content in pictures throughout the system, and the characteristic now involves video, making textual content fully 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 Surroundings
The brand new iPad fashions are designed to reduce their affect on the surroundings and embody — 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 characteristic recycled copper, with one hundred pc recycled copper within the foil of the primary logic board. It additionally options recycled aluminum, tin, and uncommon earth parts. 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 % of the packaging is fiber based mostly, bringing Apple nearer to its aim of fully eradicating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
In the present day, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be one hundred pc carbon impartial throughout your complete manufacturing provide chain and all product life cycles. Which means each Apple system offered, from part manufacturing, meeting, transport, buyer use, charging, all over recycling and materials restoration, may have net-zero local weather affect.
Pricing and Availability
- The brand new iPad is out there to order beginning right now, October 18, at apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 28 international locations 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 value 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 current homeowners 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 out there for $249 (US) and is available in white.
- The brand new Sensible Folio designed for the brand new iPad is out there 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 value of $329 (US), and Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions begin at $459 (US), in silver and house grey finishes.
- Training pricing is out there to present and newly accepted school college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, employees, and home-school lecturers of all grade ranges. Wi-Fi fashions of the brand new iPad can be found with a beginning value of $419 (US), the brand new Magic Keyboard Folio is out there for $229 (US), and Apple Pencil (1st era) is out there 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 out there starting Monday, October 24, and ships without spending a dime with the brand new iPad. iPadOS 16 shall 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.
- Clients 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 cost technique.
- Engrave iPad with a significant mixture of emoji, names, initials, and numbers, all without spending a dime, obtainable solely at apple.com/retailer or within the Apple Retailer app.
- Apple gives clients with a variety of companies in-store and on-line. From personalised assist 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 know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. In the present day, 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 units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the 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 current homeowners of Apple Pencil (1st era), the USB-C to Apple Pencil Adapter is offered individually.
- Testing was performed by Apple in September 2022 utilizing preproduction iPad (tenth era) programs with the Apple A14 Bionic chip, in addition to manufacturing MediaTek MT8768N-based Android pill programs with the most recent model of Android 11 obtainable on the time of testing. Finest-selling programs are based mostly on publicly obtainable gross sales information during the last 12 months. Techniques had been examined with frequent duties in business functions and choose industry-standard benchmarks. Efficiency depends upon system settings, utilization, surroundings, and plenty of different components. Efficiency checks are performed utilizing particular programs and mirror the approximate efficiency of iPad.
- 5G wi-fi plan and protection is required. Speeds will fluctuate. Examine with carriers for particulars.
- Customers can edit a message for as much as quarter-hour after sending it and might 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 have the ability to see a report of edits made to the message.
- Freeform shall be obtainable in an replace to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this 12 months.
- Customers can cancel supply of an e-mail for as much as 30 seconds after sending.
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