A redesigned iPad and M2 iPad Pro are almost certain to arrive today - Macworld

As the days tick by successful October, we’re each wondering the aforesaid thing: When is each that caller rumored Apple hardware coming out? We whitethorn person our reply arsenic Mark Gurman of Bloomberg claims that the archetypal releases could get “in a substance of days.” In a follow-up tweet connected Monday, helium reported that they volition get connected Tuesday morning.

At 8:30am ET, the Apple Store went offline, which is usually a definite motion that caller products are connected the way.

In his play Power On newsletter, Gurman reports Apple is archetypal readying to motorboat refreshes to its iPad Pro and entry-level iPad lines. The iPad Pro volition look similar the existent models that haven’t changed since 2018 but bring much show with an M2 chip. There are besides rumors that the caller iPad Pros could diagnostic wireless and MagSafe charging, but the surface sizes and different specs are expected to stay the same, including the surface differences betwixt the 11-inch and 12.9-inch models, arsenic confirmed successful a tweet by Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants.

The 10th-generation iPad volition reportedly spot a overmuch bigger change, with a larger 10.5-inch display, level edges, and USB-C. There are conflicting rumors connected however melodramatic the redesign volition be—it whitethorn suffer the Home fastener altogether—and Gurman lone says the caller exemplary volition beryllium “the astir important update to that enactment successful respective years.” A Twitter idiosyncratic spotted a caller lawsuit for the 2022 iPad successful Target that shows the caller tablet volition enactment the 2nd procreation Apple Pencil. The existent iPad is the lone Apple tablet to enactment the 1st-generation Pencil.

Gurman’s follow-up tweet confirmed that “days” really meant days and the iPads volition get connected Tuesday morning, apt astatine 8:30am ET. Gurman besides says that iPadOS 16.1 won’t get until the week of October 24, truthful the caller iPads apt won’t vessel until adjacent Friday, October 28.

Apple besides reportedly has a flurry of caller Macs acceptable to motorboat this month, including an M2 refreshes of the Mac mini and 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. They could get adjacent week with macOS Monterey oregon onshore successful aboriginal November.

Author: Michael Simon, Executive Editor