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 as we speak 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 obtainable 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 an entire new stage with assist for Apple Pencil Professional, opening up completely new methods to be much more productive and inventive. The 12MP extensive again digital camera helps Sensible HDR 4 for natural-looking pictures 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 era — the brand new iPad mini delivers unimaginable worth and the complete iPad expertise in an ultraportable design. Prospects can pre-order the brand new iPad mini as we speak, with availability starting Wednesday, October 23.
“There isn’t a different gadget on the earth 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. “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 moveable 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 numerous 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 p.c enhance in CPU efficiency.1 A17 Professional additionally brings a lift in graphics efficiency with a 5-core GPU, delivering a 25 p.c leap over the earlier era.1 A17 Professional brings completely new experiences — together with professional apps utilized by designers, pilots, medical doctors, and others — and makes it sooner than ever for customers to edit pictures, 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 participating 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 completely on gadget, and Personal Cloud Compute affords 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, simple 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 all places 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 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 keep 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 gadgets.
- In Images, the Reminiscences function now allows customers to create the flicks they need to see by merely typing an outline, and with the brand new Clear Up software, they will determine and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph — with out unintentionally 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 pictures in moments.
- Picture Wand is a brand new software within the Apple Pencil software palette that may remodel a tough sketch into a refined 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 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 should additionally acquire onscreen consciousness to know and take motion with customers’ content material, in addition to take lots of of latest 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 consumer’s IP handle 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 information 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 shortly join and switch their current plans digitally, and retailer a number of mobile plans on a single gadget. Prospects can simply get linked 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 provider. The USB-C port is now as much as 2x sooner than the earlier era, with information transfers as much as 10Gbps, so importing giant pictures and movies is even faster.
Unimaginable Digicam Expertise
Nice cameras, together with the extremely moveable type issue of iPad mini, allow highly effective cellular workflows. The 12MP extensive again digital camera delivers attractive pictures, 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 Digicam app and might 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 prospects 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, citing a software palette to shortly change instruments, line weights, and colours, all with out interrupting the artistic course of. A customized haptic engine delivers a light-weight 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 software they’re utilizing. Rotating the barrel adjustments 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 software 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), supreme for notice taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra, at a fantastic 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 simple 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 means to make use of Apple Pencil to unravel expressions, in addition to primary and scientific calculators with a brand new historical past operate and unit conversions. With Math Notes, customers at the moment are capable of 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 may also entry their Math Notes within the Notes app, and use all the 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 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 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 an actual second within the recording.
- New ranges of customization come to iPad, and customers have much more choices to specific themselves by the House 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 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 arrange new controls from third-party apps within the redesigned Management Middle.
- The Images app receives its greatest replace ever, bringing customers highly effective new instruments that make it simpler to search out what they’re searching for with a simplified and customizable app format 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 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 one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the enclosure, one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled gold plating and tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards. The brand new iPad mini meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. The packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its aim to take away plastic from all packaging by 2025.
At present, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations and, as a part of its formidable Apple 2030 aim, plans to be carbon impartial throughout its total carbon footprint by the tip of this decade.
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects can pre-order the brand new iPad mini beginning as we speak, October 15, on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 29 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It should start arriving to prospects, and will probably be in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 23.
- Accessible 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 era. The brand new iPad mini can be obtainable in 256GB and 512GB configurations.
- For schooling, the brand new iPad mini begins at $449 (U.S.). Training pricing is obtainable to present and newly accepted school college students and their mother and father, in addition to school, employees, and home-school lecturers 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 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 brand new Sensible Folio, obtainable in charcoal grey, gentle violet, denim, and sage, is $59 (U.S.).
- Apple affords nice methods to save lots of on the most recent iPad. Prospects 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 value and for phrases and circumstances, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Prospects within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card pays month-to-month at 0 p.c APR after 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 up entrance. Extra data — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is obtainable at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
- AppleCare+ for iPad gives unparalleled service and assist. This contains limitless incidents of unintentional harm, battery service protection, and 24/7 assist from the individuals who know iPad greatest.
- Each buyer who buys straight from Apple Retail will get entry to Private Setup. In these guided on-line periods, a Specialist can stroll prospects by setup, or deal with options that assist them take advantage of their new gadget.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, 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 folks 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 one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Testing performed by Apple in September 2024 utilizing preproduction iPad mini (A17 Professional) and manufacturing iPad mini (sixth era) items. Examined with Affinity Photograph 2 v2.5.5.2636 utilizing the built-in benchmark model 25000. Efficiency assessments are performed 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 come back. Later this 12 months, Apple Intelligence will add assist for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Ok. Within the coming 12 months, 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 obtainable in international locations and areas the place supported.
Press Contacts
Tara Courtney
Apple
Skylar Eisenhart
Apple
Apple Media Helpline