Might 7, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils the redesigned 11‑inch and all‑new 13‑inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip
Now out there in two sizes, iPad Air is extra highly effective and versatile than ever with phenomenal efficiency and AI capabilities, a brand new panorama entrance digital camera, and quicker Wi-Fi, together with assist for Apple Pencil Professional
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present introduced the redesigned 11-inch and all-new 13-inch iPad Air, supercharged by the M2 chip. Now out there in two sizes for the primary time, the 11-inch iPad Air is super-portable, and the 13-inch mannequin offers a good 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 quicker CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine in M2, the brand new iPad Air presents much more efficiency and is an extremely highly effective system for synthetic intelligence. The front-facing Extremely Huge 12MP digital camera with Middle Stage is now positioned alongside the panorama fringe of iPad Air, which is ideal for video calls. It additionally consists of quicker Wi-Fi, and mobile fashions embrace super-fast 5G, so customers can keep related on the go. With a conveyable design, all-day battery life, an excellent Liquid Retina show, and assist for Apple Pencil Professional, Apple Pencil (USB-C), and Magic Keyboard, iPad Air empowers customers to be much more productive and artistic. The brand new iPad Air is accessible in new blue and purple finishes, together with starlight and area grey. The 11-inch iPad Air nonetheless begins at simply $599, and the 13-inch iPad Air is a implausible worth at simply $799. Prospects can order the brand new iPad Air at present, 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. Right now, iPad Air will get even higher,” stated Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp 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 an excellent Liquid Retina show, the outstanding efficiency of the M2 chip, unimaginable AI capabilities, and its colourful, transportable design with assist 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 executed on the go. For customers who desire a bigger show, the brand new 13-inch iPad Air presents 30 % extra display actual property than the 11-inch mannequin. The expansive show offers customers more room to seize their concepts in apps like Freeform, or view a number of apps utilizing Cut up View in iPadOS. Each fashions embrace superior shows with a Liquid Retina design; an anti-reflective display coating; True Tone expertise; excessive brightness; and assist for P3 huge shade, 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 Huge 12MP digital camera is now positioned alongside the panorama edge. The digital camera options Middle Stage, which makes use of machine studying (ML) to routinely maintain everybody within the subject of view. This new digital camera location is ideal, because it has turn 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 Huge again digital camera on iPad Air 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. 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 large enhance in efficiency to iPad Air, that includes a quicker 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU. M2 is a robust chip that gives plenty of enhancements over M1, delivering an enormous leap in efficiency for these upgrading from previous-generation iPad Air fashions. When mixed with quicker reminiscence bandwidth, the brand new iPad Air is almost 50 % quicker than the earlier iPad Air with M1 for a variety of productiveness and artistic duties.1 And in comparison with iPad Air with A14 Bionic, the brand new iPad Air delivers as much as 3x quicker efficiency. From creating participating content material quicker than ever in Affinity Designer, to enjoying demanding, graphics-intensive video games like Zenless Zone Zero, customers will really feel the pace of M2 in the whole lot they do.
Highly effective Gadget for AI
With M2, the brand new iPad Air is an incredible system for AI, that includes a extra environment friendly 16-core Neural Engine that’s 40 % quicker 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 corresponding to Visible Look Up, Topic Carry, or Dwell 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 system. With the huge ecosystem of apps that embrace superior AI options, customers can do issues like use the Auto Improve software in Photomator, which improves photographs 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 artistic apps that faucet into the ability of AI, corresponding to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Adobe Firefly.
Sooner Connectivity with Wi-Fi 6E and 5G
With quicker 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 recordsdata, play video games on-line, and stream motion pictures. Wi-Fi + Mobile fashions with 5G enable customers to entry their recordsdata, 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 different 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 system. Prospects can simply get related to wi-fi knowledge plans on the brand new iPad Air in over 190 nations and areas world wide with no need to get a bodily SIM card from a neighborhood 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 consumer’s squeeze, mentioning a software palette to shortly 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, use double-tap, or snap to a Sensible Form for a remarkably intuitive expertise. A gyroscope permits customers to 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, identical to pen and paper. And with Apple Pencil hover, customers can visualize the precise orientation of a software earlier than making a mark.
With these superior options, Apple Pencil Professional permits customers to carry their concepts to life in completely new methods, and builders can even create their very own customized interactions. Apple Pencil Professional brings assist for Discover My to Apple Pencil for the primary time, serving to customers find Apple Pencil Professional if misplaced. It pairs, costs, 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), superb for word taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra, at an amazing worth.
iPad Air works with the Magic Keyboard, which features a floating design, built-in trackpad, and backlit keyboard. The brand new Sensible Folio for iPad Air attaches magnetically and now helps a number of viewing angles for better flexibility. Obtainable in charcoal grey, mild violet, denim, and sage, the brand new Sensible 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 photographs, and expressive fonts and colours to personalize the look of the date and time.
- Interactive widgets take glanceable data additional with the flexibility to get duties executed proper within the second with only a faucet.
- Messages presents enjoyable methods for customers to precise themselves, together with a stickers expertise with emoji stickers and the flexibility to create Dwell Stickers by lifting topics from photographs.
- In FaceTime, customers can depart an audio or video message when somebody doesn’t choose up a name. With Continuity Digital camera, customers can benefit from the digital camera and microphone on iPad Air and provoke a video name straight from Apple TV, or begin the decision on iPad after which hand it off to Apple TV.
- Freeform presents new drawing instruments; assist 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 arrange, learn, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs. Working with PDFs can also 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 change between apps, and extra.
- Along with Visible Look Up, Topic Carry, and Dwell Textual content, customers can benefit from AI capabilities like Dwell Captions for real-time audio captions and clever accessibility options corresponding to Private Voice.
Huge Ecosystem of Apps
iPad Air additionally comes with distinctive apps in-built, together with Freeform, Notes, iMovie, GarageBand, Photographs, and the iWork suite of productiveness apps — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Logic Professional for iPad 2 and Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2 carry new options that rework iPad Air into an much more versatile artistic 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 Lower Professional turns iPad into the last word cellular manufacturing studio, with Dwell Multicam to regulate and document with as much as 4 iPhone or iPad units with Closing Lower Digital camera;3 exterior mission assist;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 need to do, from superior productiveness to creativity.
Higher for the Setting
The brand new iPad Air is designed with the setting 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 power 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.
Right now, Apple is carbon impartial for world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chain and life cycle of each product.
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects can order the brand new iPad Air with M2 beginning at present, Might 7, on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 29 nations and areas, together with the U.S. It should start arriving to prospects, and can be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Licensed Resellers, beginning Wednesday, Might 15.
- The brand new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air can be out there in blue, purple, starlight, and area 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 accessible to present and newly accepted faculty college students and their mother and father, in addition to college, employees, and home-school lecturers of all grade ranges. For extra data, go to apple.com/us-hed/store.
- The brand new Apple Pencil Professional is appropriate with the brand new iPad Air. It’s out there for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) for schooling. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is accessible for $79 (U.S.) and $69 (U.S.) for schooling.
- The Magic Keyboard, out there in black and white finishes, is appropriate 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 accessible for $279 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $329 (U.S.).
- The brand new Sensible Folio, out there 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 can be out there Might 13 as a free replace for present customers, and for brand new customers, it is going to be out there on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) monthly 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 data, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.
- Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2 can be out there later this spring on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) monthly, or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial.
- Apple presents 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 system is price and for phrases and situations, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Prospects within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 % APR once they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 % Every day Money again — all upfront.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, 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 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Testing was performed by Apple in March and April 2024. See apple.com/ipad-air for extra data.
- Logic Professional for iPad 2 can be out there on iPad fashions with the A12 Bionic chip or later, and Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2 is appropriate with iPad fashions with the M1 chip or later.
- Closing Lower Digital camera is appropriate with iPhone XS and later with iOS 17.4 or later, and iPad fashions appropriate with iPadOS 17.4 or later.
- Exterior mission assist requires iPadOS 17.5 or later.
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