New leak says 10th-gen iPad has moved camera to the side - AppleInsider

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The tenth-generation iPad's beforehand camera could displacement position, with a surface protector seemingly indicating it whitethorn beryllium amended positioned for scenery use.

Apple has continually placed its front-facing camera successful the mediate of the apical borderline of the iPad, sitting astatine the apical of the show erstwhile held successful representation orientation. If an accessory is to beryllium believed, that camera whitethorn person moved to different edge.

In a Tuesday tweet by serial leaker "Majin Bu," photographs of a surface protector for the "iPad 10 (2022)" are displayed, with a tiny notch-like cutout successful the mediate of 1 of the longer edges. The alteration "suggests that the camera volition beryllium moved horizontally," according to the leaker.

This is not the archetypal rumor astir a camera shift. A study from August claimed Apple was shifting that front-facing camera to a broadside edge, among different changes similar a shifted Home button.

The alteration successful positioning was besides projected successful September 2021, albeit successful narration to the iPad Pro.

Shifting the camera to the longer borderline would mean users volition acquisition a alteration successful however they usage their iPad for communications. Currently, the camera is astatine the apical of the surface erstwhile successful a representation predisposition and to the broadside erstwhile successful landscape, but this would power astir if the camera moves.

It's not going to beryllium agelong earlier we cognize if the leaker is close astir the camera. Early connected Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased an iPad update, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the Apple Store going offline.