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 right this moment 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 person privateness. With a beloved ultraportable design, the brand new iPad mini is accessible in 4 beautiful finishes, together with a brand new blue and purple, and options the sensible 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 an entire new stage with assist for Apple Pencil Professional, opening up fully new methods to be much more productive and inventive. The 12MP broad again digital camera helps Good HDR 4 for natural-looking images with elevated dynamic vary, and makes use of machine studying to detect and scan paperwork proper within the Digicam 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 technology — the brand new iPad mini delivers unimaginable worth and the total iPad expertise in an ultraportable design. Clients can pre-order the brand new iPad mini right this moment, with availability starting Wednesday, October 23.
“There isn’t a different gadget on this 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 might be highly effective, private, and personal,” stated Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp of Worldwide Product Advertising and marketing. “With the highly effective A17 Professional chip, sooner connectivity, and assist for Apple Pencil Professional, the brand new iPad mini delivers the total 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 quite 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 technology.1 A17 Professional brings fully new experiences — together with professional apps utilized by designers, pilots, docs, and others — and makes it sooner than ever for customers to edit images, dive into extra immersive AR functions, 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 enjoying 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 ability 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 ability 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. Lots of the fashions that energy Apple Intelligence run fully on gadget, and Non-public Cloud Compute gives 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 will probably be obtainable in U.S. English this month by a free software program replace with iPadOS 18.1, and obtainable for iPad with A17 Professional or M1 and later. Apple Intelligence delivers experiences which might 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 almost 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 sublime glowing gentle that wraps across the fringe of the display screen when lively on iPad. With richer language-understanding capabilities, speaking with Siri is extra pure and versatile. Siri can comply with 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 in depth product information to reply questions on options on iPad and different Apple units.
- In Pictures, the Recollections characteristic now allows customers to create the films they wish to see by merely typing an outline, and with the brand new Clear Up instrument, they will determine and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph — with out by chance altering the topic.
Extra Apple Intelligence options will probably be rolling out over the subsequent a number of months:
- Picture Playground permits customers to create playful photos in moments.
- Picture Wand is a brand new instrument within the Apple Pencil instrument palette that may remodel a tough sketch into a cultured picture.
- Emoji will probably be taken to a wholly new stage with the power to create unique Genmoji by merely typing an outline, or by deciding on a photograph of a pal or member of the family.
- Siri will be capable to draw on a person’s private context to ship intelligence that’s tailor-made to them. It would 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 inbuilt so a person’s IP handle is obscured, and OpenAI gained’t retailer requests. Customers can entry ChatGPT totally free with out creating an account, and ChatGPT’s data-use insurance policies apply for many 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 technology,3 so customers can obtain information, play video games on-line, and stream motion pictures even sooner. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G enable customers to entry their information, talk with friends, and again up their information in a snap whereas on the go. Mobile fashions of the brand new iPad mini are activated with eSIM, a safer various to a bodily SIM card, permitting customers to shortly join and switch their current plans digitally, and retailer a number of mobile plans on a single gadget. Clients can simply get related to wi-fi information 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 a neighborhood service. The USB-C port is now as much as 2x sooner than the earlier technology, with information transfers as much as 10Gbps, so importing massive images and movies is even faster.
Unbelievable Digicam Expertise
Nice cameras, together with the extremely transportable type issue of iPad mini, allow highly effective cellular workflows. The 12MP broad again digital camera delivers beautiful images, and with Good 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 robotically determine paperwork proper within the Digicam app and may use the brand new True Tone flash to take away shadows from the doc. The 12MP Extremely Huge front-facing digital camera in portrait orientation, with assist for Middle 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 person’s squeeze, citing a instrument palette to shortly change instruments, line weights, and colours, all with out interrupting the inventive course of. A customized haptic engine delivers a light-weight faucet that gives affirmation when customers squeeze, double-tap, or snap to a Good Form for a remarkably intuitive expertise. Customers can roll Apple Pencil Professional for exact management of the instrument 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 instrument earlier than making a mark. Apple Pencil Professional options assist for Discover My, and pairs, fees, and is saved by 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 an excellent 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 gadget.
- Designed for the distinctive capabilities of iPad, Calculator delivers a wholly new approach to make use of Apple Pencil to resolve expressions, in addition to primary and scientific calculators with a brand new historical past operate and unit conversions. With Math Notes, customers are actually in a position to kind mathematical expressions or write them out to see them immediately solved in handwriting like their very own. They will additionally create and use variables, and add an equation to insert a graph. Customers can even 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 simple to learn with Good Script and the ability of Apple Pencil. Good Script unleashes highly effective new capabilities for customers modifying handwritten textual content, permitting them to simply add house, and even paste typed textual content in their very own handwriting. And as customers write with Apple Pencil, their handwriting will probably be robotically 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 an actual second within the recording.
- New ranges of customization come to iPad, and customers have much more choices to precise themselves by 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 excellent for them. Management Middle has been redesigned to supply simpler entry to most of the issues customers do each day, delivering fast entry to new teams of a person’s most-utilized controls. Customers may even arrange new controls from third-party apps within the redesigned Management Middle.
- The Pictures app receives its largest replace ever, bringing customers highly effective new instruments that make it simpler to seek out what they’re searching for 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 arrange content material into albums.
- Customers have new methods to remain related and categorical 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 Atmosphere
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 aim to take away plastic from all packaging by 2025.
Right this moment, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations and, as a part of its bold Apple 2030 aim, plans to be carbon impartial throughout its whole carbon footprint by the tip of this decade.
Pricing and Availability
- Clients can pre-order the brand new iPad mini beginning right this moment, October 15, on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 29 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It would start arriving to clients, and will probably be in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 23.
- Obtainable in blue, purple, starlight, and house 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 technology. The brand new iPad mini can be obtainable in 256GB and 512GB configurations.
- For training, the brand new iPad mini begins at $449 (U.S.). Schooling pricing is accessible to present and newly accepted school college students and their dad and mom, in addition to school, workers, and home-school academics of all grade ranges. For extra info, go to apple.com/us-hed/store.
- Apple Pencil Professional is suitable with the brand new iPad mini. It’s obtainable for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) for training. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is accessible for $79 (U.S.), and $69 (U.S.) for training.
- The brand new Good Folio, obtainable in charcoal grey, gentle violet, denim, and sage, is $59 (U.S.).
- Apple gives 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 gadget is price and for phrases and circumstances, 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 % APR once 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 info — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is accessible at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
- AppleCare+ for iPad offers unparalleled service and assist. This contains limitless incidents of unintentional harm, battery service protection, and 24/7 assist from the individuals who know iPad finest.
- 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 by setup, or deal with options that assist them profit from their new gadget.
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, 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 individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the very best 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 technology) items. Examined with Affinity Picture 2 v2.5.5.2636 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 25000. Efficiency checks are carried out utilizing particular iPad items and mirror the approximate efficiency of iPad mini.
- Apple Intelligence will probably be obtainable as a free software program replace for iPad with A17 Professional or M1 and later with gadget and Siri language set to U.S. English. The primary set of options will probably be obtainable 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.Okay. Within the coming yr, Apple Intelligence will increase to extra languages, like Chinese language, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others.
- Wi‑Fi 6E obtainable in international locations and areas the place supported.
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