Apple unveils the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air with M2

Might 7, 2024

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Apple unveils the redesigned 11‑inch and all‑new 13‑inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip

Now obtainable in two sizes, iPad Air is extra highly effective and versatile than ever with phenomenal efficiency and AI capabilities, a brand new panorama entrance digicam, and sooner Wi-Fi, together with help for Apple Pencil Professional

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple immediately introduced the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip. Now obtainable in two sizes for the primary time, the 11-inch iPad Air is super-portable, and the 13-inch mannequin offers an excellent bigger show for extra room to work, be taught, and play. Each ship phenomenal efficiency and superior capabilities, making iPad Air extra highly effective and versatile than ever earlier than. That includes a sooner CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine in M2, the brand new iPad Air provides much more efficiency and is an extremely highly effective machine for synthetic intelligence. The front-facing Extremely Broad 12MP digicam with Middle Stage is now positioned alongside the panorama fringe of iPad Air, which is ideal for video calls. It additionally consists of sooner Wi-Fi, and mobile fashions embody super-fast 5G, so customers can keep related on the go. With a transportable design, all-day battery life, a superb Liquid Retina show, and help for Apple Pencil Professional, Apple Pencil (USB-C), and Magic Keyboard, iPad Air empowers customers to be much more productive and inventive. The brand new iPad Air is obtainable in new blue and purple finishes, together with starlight and house grey. The 11-inch iPad Air nonetheless begins at simply $599, and the 13-inch iPad Air is a implausible worth at simply $799. Clients can order the brand new iPad Air immediately, with availability starting Wednesday, Might 15.

“So many customers — from college students, to content material creators, to small companies, and extra — love iPad Air for its efficiency, portability, and flexibility, all at an reasonably priced value. At this time, iPad Air will get even higher,” stated Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice chairman of Product Advertising. “We’re so excited to introduce the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air, providing two sizes for the primary time. With its mixture of a superb Liquid Retina show, the outstanding efficiency of the M2 chip, unimaginable AI capabilities, and its colourful, moveable design with help for brand new equipment, iPad Air is extra highly effective and versatile than ever.”

iPad Air: Now Obtainable in Two Sizes

The redesigned 11-inch iPad Air is super-portable, excellent for getting work carried out on the go. For customers who desire a bigger show, the brand new 13-inch iPad Air provides 30 p.c extra display screen actual property than the 11-inch mannequin. The expansive show offers customers extra space to seize their concepts in apps like Freeform, or view a number of apps utilizing Cut up View in iPadOS. Each fashions embody superior shows with a Liquid Retina design; an anti-reflective display screen coating; True Tone know-how; excessive brightness; and help for P3 huge coloration, leading to content material that appears remarkably wealthy and vibrant, and textual content that’s sharp in all types of lighting situations.

Panorama Entrance-Going through Digital camera

Within the redesigned iPad Air, the front-facing Extremely Broad 12MP digicam is now positioned alongside the panorama edge. The digicam options Middle Stage, which makes use of machine studying (ML) to robotically maintain everybody within the area of view. This new digicam location is ideal, because it has change into the commonest orientation for iPad customers, whether or not they’re connecting with family and friends over FaceTime, or becoming a member of a video convention whereas utilizing iPad Air in a keyboard. The 12MP Broad again digicam on iPad Air delivers high-resolution pictures 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 digicam getting used and minimizing distracting background noise. The brand new iPad Air additionally has panorama stereo audio system with Spatial Audio. The 13-inch mannequin delivers even higher sound high quality with double the bass, which is nice for having fun with music and movies.

Even Extra Efficiency with M2

The M2 chip brings one other huge enhance in efficiency to iPad Air, that includes a sooner 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU. M2 is a robust chip that gives a lot of enhancements over M1, delivering an enormous leap in efficiency for these upgrading from previous-generation iPad Air fashions. When mixed with sooner reminiscence bandwidth, the brand new iPad Air is almost 50 p.c sooner than the earlier iPad Air with M1 for a variety of productiveness and inventive duties.¹ And in comparison with iPad Air with A14 Bionic, the brand new iPad Air delivers as much as 3x sooner efficiency. From creating participating content material sooner than ever in Affinity Designer, to enjoying demanding, graphics-intensive video games like Zenless Zone Zero, customers will really feel the velocity of M2 in all the things they do.

Highly effective System for AI

With M2, the brand new iPad Air is an incredible machine for AI, that includes a extra environment friendly 16-core Neural Engine that’s 40 p.c sooner than M1. Mixed with ML accelerators within the CPU and a strong GPU to spice up on-device machine studying, together with Apple silicon’s unified reminiscence structure, iPad Air delivers distinctive AI efficiency. Making the most of this efficiency, customers can take pleasure in clever iPadOS options akin to Visible Look Up, Topic Elevate, or Reside Textual content. iPadOS additionally has superior frameworks like Core ML that make it simple for builders to faucet into the Neural Engine to ship highly effective AI options proper on machine. With the huge ecosystem of apps that embody superior AI options, customers can do issues like use the Auto Improve instrument in Photomator, which improves pictures with a single click on utilizing AI fashions, or analyze athletic efficiency like by no means earlier than with Onform and its movement monitoring capabilities. iPad Air additionally helps cloud-based options, enabling customers to run superior productiveness and inventive apps that faucet into the facility of AI, akin to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Adobe Firefly.

Sooner Connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and 5G

With sooner wi-fi connectivity on the go, customers can do much more on iPad Air. The brand new iPad Air helps Wi-Fi 6E, which delivers as much as 2x elevated efficiency than the earlier era, so customers can obtain information, play video games on-line, and stream films. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G permit customers to entry their information, talk with friends, and again up their knowledge in a snap whereas on the go. Mobile fashions of the brand new iPad Air are activated with eSIM, a safer various to a bodily SIM card, permitting customers to shortly join and switch their present plans digitally, and retailer a number of mobile plans on a single machine. Clients can simply get related to wi-fi knowledge plans on the brand new iPad Air in over 190 international locations and areas world wide without having to get a bodily SIM card from an area service.

Versatile Equipment, Together with Apple Pencil Professional

Apple Pencil Professional options much more magical capabilities and highly effective new interactions that take the Apple Pencil expertise even additional. A brand new sensor within the barrel can sense a person’s squeeze, citing a instrument palette to shortly swap instruments, line weights, and colours, all with out interrupting the inventive course of. A customized haptic engine delivers a lightweight faucet that gives affirmation when customers squeeze, use double-tap, or snap to a Good Form for a remarkably intuitive expertise. A gyroscope permits customers to roll Apple Pencil Professional for exact management of the instrument they’re utilizing. Rotating the barrel modifications the orientation of formed pen and brush instruments, similar to pen and paper. And with Apple Pencil hover, customers can visualize the precise orientation of a instrument earlier than making a mark.

With these superior options, Apple Pencil Professional permits customers to convey their concepts to life in totally new methods, and builders may create their very own customized interactions. Apple Pencil Professional brings help for Discover My to Apple Pencil for the primary time, serving to customers find Apple Pencil Professional if misplaced. It pairs, prices, and is saved on the aspect of iPad Air by means of a brand new magnetic interface. iPad Air additionally helps Apple Pencil (USB-C), ideally suited for observe taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra, at a terrific worth.

iPad Air works with the Magic Keyboard, which features a floating design, built-in trackpad, and backlit keyboard. The brand new Good Folio for iPad Air attaches magnetically and now helps a number of viewing angles for higher flexibility. Obtainable in charcoal grey, mild violet, denim, and sage, the brand new Good Folio enhances the finishes of iPad Air.

Energy of iPadOS 17

iPadOS 17 brings new ranges of personalization and flexibility that elevate the iPad Air expertise:

• Customers can customise the Lock Display screen to make it extra private, benefiting from the 11-inch or new, bigger 13-inch show on iPad Air. This consists of gorgeous wallpapers, enjoyable methods to showcase customers’ favourite pictures, and expressive fonts and colours to personalize the look of the date and time.

• Interactive widgets take glanceable info additional with the flexibility to get duties carried out proper within the second with only a faucet.

• Messages provides enjoyable methods for customers to specific themselves, together with a stickers expertise with emoji stickers and the flexibility to create Reside Stickers by lifting topics from pictures.

• In FaceTime, customers can depart an audio or video message when somebody doesn’t decide up a name. With Continuity Digital camera, customers can reap the benefits of the digicam and microphone on iPad Air and provoke a video name instantly from Apple TV, or begin the decision on iPad after which hand it off to Apple TV.

• Freeform provides new drawing instruments; help for hover, tilt, and snap to form; the flexibility so as to add connection strains and new shapes to any object; and Observe Alongside to information collaborators across the board.

• The Notes app offers customers new methods to prepare, learn, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs. Working with PDFs can be simpler with AutoFill, which intelligently identifies and fills fields in varieties.

• With Stage Supervisor, customers can work with a number of overlapping home windows in a single view, resize home windows, faucet to modify between apps, and extra.

• Along with Visible Look Up, Topic Elevate, and Reside Textual content, customers can reap the benefits of AI capabilities like Reside Captions for real-time audio captions and clever accessibility options akin to Private Voice.

Huge Ecosystem of Apps

iPad Air additionally comes with distinctive apps in-built, together with Freeform, Notes, iMovie, GarageBand, Pictures, and the iWork suite of productiveness apps — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Logic Professional for iPad 2 and Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2 convey new options that rework iPad Air into an much more versatile inventive powerhouse.² Obtainable Monday, Might 13, Logic Professional delivers breakthrough skilled experiences for songwriting, beat-making, producing, and mixing with highly effective AI-driven options, together with Session Gamers, ChromaGlow, and Stem Splitter. Coming later this spring, Closing Reduce Professional turns iPad into the last word cellular manufacturing studio, with Reside Multicam to regulate and report with as much as 4 iPhone or iPad gadgets with Closing Reduce Digital camera;³ exterior mission help;⁴ and much more new content material. And with over 1,000,000 apps on the App Retailer, iPad Air customers can discover apps for something they wish to do, from superior productiveness to creativity.

Higher for the Surroundings

The brand new iPad Air is designed with the atmosphere in thoughts, together with 100% recycled aluminum within the enclosure, 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets, and 100% recycled gold plating and tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards. The brand new iPad Air meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. The packaging is 100% fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its purpose to take away plastic from all packaging by 2025.

At this time, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout the complete manufacturing provide chain and life cycle of each product.

Pricing and Availability

• Clients can order the brand new iPad Air with M2 beginning immediately, Might 7, on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 29 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It’ll start arriving to clients, and will likely be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, Might 15.

• The brand new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air will likely be obtainable in blue, purple, starlight, and house grey, with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB configurations.

• The 11-inch iPad Air begins at $599 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $749 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin. The 13-inch iPad Air begins at $799 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $949 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin.

• For schooling, the brand new 11-inch iPad Air begins at $549 (U.S.), and the 13-inch mannequin begins at $749 (U.S.). Schooling pricing is obtainable to present and newly accepted faculty college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, workers, and home-school lecturers of all grade ranges. For extra info, go to apple.com/us-hed/store.

• The brand new Apple Pencil Professional is suitable with the brand new iPad Air. It’s obtainable for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) for schooling. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is obtainable for $79 (U.S.) and $69 (U.S.) for schooling.

• The Magic Keyboard, obtainable in black and white finishes, is suitable with the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air. It may be bought for $299 (U.S.) for the brand new 11-inch iPad Air, and $349 (U.S.) for the brand new 13-inch iPad Air, with layouts for over 30 languages. For schooling, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is obtainable for $279 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is obtainable for $329 (U.S.).

• The brand new Good Folio, obtainable in charcoal grey, mild violet, denim, and sage, is $79 (U.S.) for the brand new 11-inch iPad Air, and $99 (U.S.) for the brand new 13-inch iPad Air.

• Logic Professional for iPad 2 will likely be obtainable Might 13 as a free replace for present customers, and for brand new customers, will probably be obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial. Logic Professional for iPad 2 requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. For extra info, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.

• Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2 will likely be obtainable later this spring on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days, or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial.

• Apple provides nice methods to save lots of on the newest iPad. Clients can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line, the Apple Retailer App, or an Apple Retailer location. To see what their machine is value and for phrases and situations, clients can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.

• Clients within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card pays month-to-month at 0 p.c APR once they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 p.c Every day Money again — all upfront.

About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.

1. Testing was carried out by Apple in March and April 2024. See apple.com/ipad-air for extra info.
2. Logic Professional for iPad 2 will likely be obtainable on iPad fashions with the A12 Bionic chip or later, and Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2 is suitable with iPad fashions with the M1 chip or later.
3. Closing Reduce Digital camera is suitable with iPhone XS and later with iOS 17.4 or later, and iPad fashions suitable with iPadOS 17.4 or later.
4. Exterior mission help requires iPadOS 17.5 or later.

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