October 15, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces highly effective new iPad mini constructed for Apple Intelligence
The ultraportable iPad mini is extra succesful and versatile than ever with the highly effective A17 Professional chip and assist for Apple Pencil Professional
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple immediately launched the brand new iPad mini, supercharged by the A17 Professional chip and Apple Intelligence, the easy-to-use private intelligence system that understands private context to ship intelligence that’s useful and related whereas defending consumer privateness. With a beloved ultraportable design, the brand new iPad mini is on the market in 4 attractive finishes, together with a brand new blue and purple, and options the good 8.3-inch Liquid Retina show. A17 Professional delivers an enormous efficiency enhance for even probably the most demanding duties, with a sooner CPU and GPU, a 2x sooner Neural Engine than the previous-generation iPad mini,1 and assist for Apple Intelligence. The flexibility and superior capabilities of the brand new iPad mini are taken to a complete new degree with assist for Apple Pencil Professional, opening up fully new methods to be much more productive and inventive. The 12MP large again digicam helps Sensible HDR 4 for natural-looking images with elevated dynamic vary, and makes use of machine studying to detect and scan paperwork proper within the Digital camera app.
The brand new iPad mini options all-day battery life and brand-new experiences with iPadOS 18. Beginning at simply $499 with 128GB — double the storage of the earlier era — the brand new iPad mini delivers unimaginable worth and the complete iPad expertise in an ultraportable design. Clients can pre-order the brand new iPad mini immediately, with availability starting Wednesday, October 23.
“There is no such thing as a different system on the planet like iPad mini, beloved for its mixture of highly effective efficiency and flexibility in our most ultraportable design. iPad mini appeals to a variety of customers and has been constructed for Apple Intelligence, delivering clever new options which can be highly effective, private, and personal,” stated Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice chairman of Worldwide Product Advertising. “With the highly effective A17 Professional chip, sooner connectivity, and assist for Apple Pencil Professional, the brand new iPad mini delivers the complete iPad expertise in our most transportable design at an unimaginable worth.”
A17 Professional Unlocks Highly effective Efficiency
The brand new iPad mini will get a serious replace with A17 Professional, delivering unimaginable efficiency and energy effectivity in an ultraportable design. A17 Professional is a strong chip that unlocks a lot of enhancements over A15 Bionic within the previous-generation iPad mini. With a 6-core CPU — two efficiency cores and 4 effectivity cores — A17 Professional delivers a 30 % enhance in CPU efficiency.1 A17 Professional additionally brings a lift in graphics efficiency with a 5-core GPU, delivering a 25 % bounce over the earlier era.1 A17 Professional brings fully new experiences — together with professional apps utilized by designers, pilots, medical doctors, and others — and makes it sooner than ever for customers to edit images, dive into extra immersive AR purposes, and extra. The brand new iPad mini brings true-to-life gaming with hardware-accelerated ray tracing — which is 4x sooner than software-based ray tracing — in addition to assist for Dynamic Caching and hardware-accelerated mesh shading. From creating partaking content material sooner than ever in Affinity Designer, to taking part in demanding, graphics-intensive AAA video games like Zenless Zone Zero, customers can take the highly effective efficiency and ultraportable iPad mini wherever.
Constructed for Apple Intelligence
With the facility of the A17 Professional chip, the brand new iPad mini delivers assist for Apple Intelligence. Deeply built-in into iPadOS 18, Apple Intelligence harnesses the facility of Apple silicon and Apple-built generative fashions to know and create language and pictures, take motion throughout apps, and draw from private context to simplify and speed up on a regular basis duties. Most of the fashions that energy Apple Intelligence run fully on system, and Non-public Cloud Compute provides the power to flex and scale computational capability between on-device processing and bigger, server-based fashions that run on devoted Apple silicon servers.
The primary set of Apple Intelligence options shall be accessible in U.S. English this month via a free software program replace with iPadOS 18.1, and accessible for iPad with A17 Professional or M1 and later. Apple Intelligence delivers experiences which can be pleasant, intuitive, straightforward to make use of, and specifically designed to assist customers do the issues that matter most to them:2
- With Writing Instruments, customers can refine their phrases by rewriting, proofreading, and summarizing textual content practically in every single place they write, together with Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps.
- Siri turns into extra deeply built-in into the system expertise and will get a brand new design with a chic glowing gentle that wraps across the fringe of the display screen when energetic on iPad. With richer language-understanding capabilities, speaking with Siri is extra pure and versatile. Siri can observe alongside when customers stumble over their phrases, can preserve context from one request to the subsequent, and now, customers can kind to Siri. Siri additionally has intensive product data to reply questions on options on iPad and different Apple units.
- In Photographs, the Reminiscences characteristic now allows customers to create the films they need to see by merely typing an outline, and with the brand new Clear Up device, they will determine and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph — with out by accident altering the topic.
Further Apple Intelligence options shall be rolling out over the subsequent a number of months:
- Picture Playground permits customers to create playful photographs in moments.
- Picture Wand is a brand new device within the Apple Pencil device palette that may remodel a tough sketch into a elegant picture.
- Emoji shall be taken to a wholly new degree with the power to create unique Genmoji by merely typing an outline, or by choosing a photograph of a good friend or member of the family.
- Siri will be capable of draw on a consumer’s private context to ship intelligence that’s tailor-made to them. It’ll additionally achieve onscreen consciousness to know and take motion with customers’ content material, in addition to take a whole lot of recent actions in and throughout Apple and third-party apps.
- With ChatGPT built-in into experiences inside iPadOS 18, customers have the choice to entry its experience, in addition to its image- and document-understanding capabilities, inside Siri and Writing Instruments without having to leap between instruments. And privateness protections are in-built so a consumer’s IP tackle is obscured, and OpenAI received’t retailer requests. Customers can entry ChatGPT without cost with out creating an account, and ChatGPT’s data-use insurance policies apply for individuals who select to attach their account.
Even Quicker Connectivity
With sooner wi-fi and wired connectivity, customers can do much more on iPad mini whereas on the go. The brand new iPad mini helps Wi-Fi 6E, which delivers as much as twice the efficiency than the earlier era,3 so customers can obtain information, play video games on-line, and stream films even sooner. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G enable 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 mini are activated with eSIM, a safer different to a bodily SIM card, permitting customers to rapidly join and switch their present plans digitally, and retailer a number of mobile plans on a single system. Clients can simply get linked to wi-fi knowledge plans on the brand new iPad mini in over 190 international locations and areas all over the world without having to get a bodily SIM card from an area provider. The USB-C port is now as much as 2x sooner than the earlier era, with knowledge transfers as much as 10Gbps, so importing giant images and movies is even faster.
Unbelievable Digital camera Expertise
Nice cameras, together with the extremely transportable kind issue of iPad mini, allow highly effective cellular workflows. The 12MP large again digicam delivers attractive images, and with Sensible HDR 4, they are going to be much more detailed and vivid. Using the highly effective 16-core Neural Engine, the brand new iPad mini makes use of synthetic intelligence (AI) to routinely determine paperwork proper within the Digital camera app and might use the brand new True Tone flash to take away shadows from the doc. The 12MP Extremely Broad front-facing digicam in portrait orientation, with assist for Heart Stage, is nice for all of the methods clients use iPad mini.
Magical Capabilities with Apple Pencil Professional
Apple Pencil Professional unlocks magical capabilities and highly effective interactions, turning iPad mini right into a sketchbook customers can take wherever. Apple Pencil Professional can sense a consumer’s squeeze, mentioning a device palette to rapidly swap instruments, line weights, and colours, all with out interrupting the artistic course of. A customized haptic engine delivers a lightweight faucet that gives affirmation when customers squeeze, double-tap, or snap to a Sensible Form for a remarkably intuitive expertise. Customers can roll Apple Pencil Professional for exact management of the device they’re utilizing. Rotating the barrel adjustments the orientation of formed pen and brush instruments, identical to pen and paper, and with Apple Pencil hover, customers can visualize the precise orientation of a device earlier than making a mark. Apple Pencil Professional options assist for Discover My, and pairs, expenses, and is saved via a brand new magnetic interface on the brand new iPad mini. iPad mini additionally helps Apple Pencil (USB-C), ideally suited for word taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra, at a terrific worth.
iPadOS 18 Brings Highly effective and Clever New Options
Along with the groundbreaking capabilities of Apple Intelligence, iPadOS 18 brings highly effective options that improve the iPad expertise, making it extra versatile and clever than ever. iPadOS additionally has superior frameworks like Core ML that make it straightforward for builders to faucet into the Neural Engine to ship highly effective AI options proper on system.
- Designed for the distinctive capabilities of iPad, Calculator delivers a wholly new manner to make use of Apple Pencil to resolve expressions, in addition to fundamental and scientific calculators with a brand new historical past operate and unit conversions. With Math Notes, customers at the moment are in a position to kind mathematical expressions or write them out to see them immediately solved in handwriting like their very own. They’ll additionally create and use variables, and add an equation to insert a graph. Customers also can entry their Math Notes within the Notes app, and use the entire math performance in any of their different notes.
- Within the Notes app, handwritten notes grow to be extra fluid, versatile, and straightforward to learn with Sensible Script and the facility of Apple Pencil. Sensible Script unleashes highly effective new capabilities for customers enhancing handwritten textual content, permitting them to simply add area, and even paste typed textual content in their very own handwriting. And as customers write with Apple Pencil, their handwriting shall be routinely refined in actual time to be smoother, straighter, and extra legible.
- With new Audio Recording and Transcription, iPad can seize a lecture or dialog, and transcripts are synced with the audio, so customers can seek for a precise second within the recording.
- New ranges of customization come to iPad, and customers have much more choices to precise themselves via the Residence Display with app icons and widgets that may be positioned in any open place. App icons and widgets can tackle a brand new look with a darkish or tinted impact, and customers could make them seem bigger to create the expertise that’s good for them. Management Heart has been redesigned to offer simpler entry to most of the issues customers do day by day, delivering fast entry to new teams of a consumer’s most-utilized controls. Customers may even set up new controls from third-party apps within the redesigned Management Heart.
- The Photographs app receives its greatest replace ever, bringing customers highly effective new instruments that make it simpler to search out what they’re in search of with a simplified and customizable app structure that takes benefit of the bigger show on iPad and helps customers browse by themes with out having to prepare content material into albums.
- Customers have new methods to remain linked and specific themselves in Messages, with all-new animated textual content results, redesigned Tapbacks, and the power to schedule messages to ship at a later time.
Higher for the Setting
The brand new iPad mini is designed with the surroundings in thoughts, together with 100% recycled aluminum within the enclosure, 100% recycled uncommon earth components in all magnets, and 100% recycled gold plating and tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards. The brand new iPad mini 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.
In the present day, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations and, as a part of its bold Apple 2030 purpose, plans to be carbon impartial throughout its total carbon footprint by the top of this decade.
Pricing and Availability
- Clients can pre-order the brand new iPad mini beginning immediately, October 15, 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 shall be in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Licensed Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 23.
- Obtainable in blue, purple, starlight, and area grey, the brand new iPad mini begins at $499 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $649 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin.
- The brand new iPad mini begins with 128GB of storage — double the storage of the earlier era. The brand new iPad mini can be accessible in 256GB and 512GB configurations.
- For schooling, the brand new iPad mini begins at $449 (U.S.). Training pricing is on the market to present and newly accepted school college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, employees, and home-school academics of all grade ranges. For extra data, go to apple.com/us-hed/store.
- Apple Pencil Professional is suitable with the brand new iPad mini. It’s accessible for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) for schooling. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is on the market for $79 (U.S.), and $69 (U.S.) for schooling.
- The brand new Sensible Folio, accessible in charcoal grey, gentle violet, denim, and sage, is $59 (U.S.).
- Apple provides nice methods to avoid wasting 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 system 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 will pay month-to-month at 0 % APR after they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, and so they’ll get 3 % Day by day Money again — all up entrance. Extra data — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is on the market at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
- AppleCare+ for iPad supplies unparalleled service and assist. This consists of limitless incidents of unintended harm, battery service protection, and 24/7 assist from the individuals who know iPad greatest.
- Each buyer who buys instantly from Apple Retail will get entry to Private Setup. In these guided on-line periods, a Specialist can stroll clients via setup, or concentrate on options that assist them benefit from their new system.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. In the present day, 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 units and empower folks 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 perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Testing carried out by Apple in September 2024 utilizing preproduction iPad mini (A17 Professional) and manufacturing iPad mini (sixth era) models. Examined with Affinity Picture 2 v2.5.5.2636 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 25000. Efficiency checks are carried out utilizing particular iPad models and replicate the approximate efficiency of iPad mini.
- Apple Intelligence shall be accessible as a free software program replace for iPad with A17 Professional or M1 and later with system and Siri language set to U.S. English. The primary set of options shall be accessible in beta this month with iPadOS 18.1 with extra options rolling out within the months to return. Later this yr, Apple Intelligence will add assist for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Ok. Within the coming yr, Apple Intelligence will broaden to extra languages, like Chinese language, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others.
- Wi‑Fi 6E accessible in international locations and areas the place supported.
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