Will Apple Launch Any New iPads in 2023? - MacRumors

Throughout 2022, we heard a multitude of reports astir an OLED iPad Pro and adjacent an all-new 14.2-inch iPad – but rumors astir each of the next-generation iPad models person different been bladed connected the ground, truthful tin we truly expect immoderate caller ‌iPad‌ models to motorboat this year?

2023 appears to beryllium shaping up to beryllium a quiescent twelvemonth for ‌iPad‌ hardware refreshes, and portion it is imaginable we could spot immoderate caller models, the existent representation suggests that caller iPads this twelvemonth are improbable connected the whole. 2024, connected the different hand, is looking similar it volition beryllium a overmuch much important twelvemonth for the ‌iPad‌ lineup. Below, we person consolidated each of the latest rumors astir each of Apple's upcoming ‌iPad‌ models to get a consciousness of what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium successful store for this year.

11th-Generation iPad: Unlikely

When Apple introduced the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ past year, it added the instrumentality to the lineup supra the ninth-generation exemplary from 2021. As a result, Apple presently sells some the ninth- and 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ for $329 and $449, respectively. It appears to beryllium capable to bash this much easy since the devices are well-differentiated, offering antithetic designs, chips, show sizes, ports, keyboard accessories, and more.

The A15 Bionic spot is the astir plausible upgrade for the 11th-generation ‌iPad‌, since each caller entry-level ‌iPad‌ since the eighth-generation exemplary from 2020 has gained a spot that is 1 procreation newer. The 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ features the A14 Bionic chip, truthful the A15 is the astir apt upgrade for the adjacent exemplary – not slightest due to the fact that this spot is present wide utilized crossed devices similar the iPhone SE, iPad mini, and Apple TV.

The entry-level ‌iPad‌ could, perhaps, besides payment from second-generation Apple Pencil enactment and a newer chip, but it is not instantly wide what other could warrant offering a caller mentation of the instrumentality this year. Since an 11th-generation ‌iPad‌ would beryllium improbable to person overmuch caller to connection implicit the 10th-generation exemplary astatine the existent time, a caller exemplary anytime soon seems unlikely. There person besides been nary factual rumors astir the caller entry-level ‌iPad‌ arsenic yet.

This year, Apple whitethorn beryllium much apt to destruct the ninth-generation ‌iPad‌ from the lineup and bump the 10th-generation exemplary down successful price, alternatively than merchandise an 11th-generation model.

Seventh-Generation iPad Mini: Possible

Apple launched the sixth-generation ‌iPad mini‌ successful September 2021, bringing the archetypal large redesign to the instrumentality successful its full history. Like the 11th-generation ‌iPad‌, a spot upgrade is the astir definite diagnostic coming to the adjacent ‌iPad mini‌ – an facet supported by recent reports.

The ‌iPad mini‌ presently contains the A15 Bionic. While it is slightly downclocked, the A15 Bionic puts the ‌iPad mini‌ connected a level footing with the iPhone 13 mini, ‌iPhone 13‌, third-generation ‌iPhone SE‌, iPhone 14, ‌iPhone 14‌ Plus, and third-generation ‌Apple TV‌ 4K. These six devices with the A15 spot are expected to stay connected merchantability passim 2023, meaning that the spot is apt to stay rather prevalent successful Apple's merchandise lineups.

As a result, the existent ‌iPad mini‌ volition incorporate comparatively modern spot hardware passim the entirety of this year. With features similar second-generation ‌Apple Pencil‌ enactment and Center Stage, determination is nary pressing request to update the instrumentality this twelvemonth and it is not wide what a caller exemplary could offer.

While Apple updated the ‌iPad mini‌ annually from 2012 to 2016, updates thereafter became much infrequent, with conscionable 1 insignificant refresh successful March 2019 earlier 2021's redesign. As a instrumentality that present seems to instrumentality astir for longer successful betwixt updates, a hardware refresh successful 2023 is not certain, but the seventh-generation ‌iPad mini‌ is the lone ‌iPad‌ exemplary actively rumored to perchance motorboat this year.

Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the seventh-generation ‌iPad‌ volition begin wide shipments towards the extremity of 2023 oregon successful the archetypal fractional of 2024 – truthful portion a motorboat this twelvemonth is possible, 2024 seems astir likely.

Sixth-Generation iPad Air: Unlikely

The iPad Air is different instrumentality with nary coagulated rumors astir its successor. The existent exemplary was introduced successful March past year, adding the M1 chip, Center Stage connected the front-facing camera, a faster USB-C port, and respective caller colour options, but it was wide a insignificant upgrade implicit the erstwhile exemplary from September 2020.

As such, arsenic of 2023, it has been immoderate clip since the ‌iPad Air‌ had a large hardware refresh. Yet owed to its positioning betwixt the entry-level ‌iPad‌ and the iPad Pro, it is not instantly wide what a caller ‌iPad Air‌ exemplary could summation without cannibalizing the ‌iPad Pro‌.

A horizontally oriented front-facing camera, the M2 chip, and a Thunderbolt larboard are among the imaginable features for the sixth-generation ‌iPad Air‌, but small is known astir the instrumentality astatine this time. While a refresh to adhd the ‌M2‌ spot is imaginable successful 2023, it whitethorn beryllium much apt that Apple again waits 2 years to update the device, and targets 2024 for a much worthwhile upgrade.

Seventh-Generation iPad Pro: Very Unlikely

The next-generation ‌iPad Pro‌ models are the most-rumored upcoming iPads. The existent 11- and 12.9-inch ‌iPad Pro‌ models were released successful October 2022, adding the ‌M2‌ chip, ‌Apple Pencil‌ hover, Smart HDR 4, Wi‑Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3 – different insignificant refresh similar the fifth-generation ‌iPad Air‌.

With the current- and previous-generation ‌iPad Pro‌ models featuring M-series chips, and the 2022 refresh making the leap to the ‌M2‌ chip, the M3 spot is the astir apt spot to beryllium included successful the next-generation ‌iPad Pro‌. The ‌M3‌ spot is expected to beryllium manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process, bringing the biggest show and ratio boost to Apple's chips successful respective years. The archetypal Apple devices with ‌M3‌ chips are not apt to look until the 2nd fractional of 2023, which seemingly rules retired a caller ‌iPad Pro‌ anytime soon.

Moreover, the main diagnostic rumored for the next-generation ‌iPad Pro‌ is OLED displays – an upgrade that has been rumored for over a year. Dozens of reports from aggregate sources are accordant that ‌iPad Pro‌ models with OLED displays are scheduled to launch successful 2024, alternatively than this year. The OLED displays Apple is readying to usage volition reportedly beryllium much durable and alteration thinner and much lightweight instrumentality designs, and they could person slimmer bezels with the display size options increasing from 11- to 11.1-inches and 12.9- to 13-inches.

The ‌iPad Pro‌ has had the aforesaid plan for 4 successive generations since 2018, and it looks similar the instrumentality could yet get a redesign successful its adjacent incarnation. It is not wholly wide what the caller plan could look like, but a thinner and lighter instrumentality with a glass backmost oregon larger solid Apple logo to alteration wireless charging seems plausible based connected existent rumors. The instrumentality could besides power from a default representation predisposition to a scenery design – thing seemingly supported by the relocation of the ‌iPad mini‌'s measurement buttons and the latest entry-level ‌iPad‌'s scenery front-facing camera.

The iPhone 15 lineup is rumored to determination to an iPhone 5C- oregon MacBook Pro-like plan with a flat beforehand and a rounded back, truthful a plan similar this for the ‌iPad Pro‌ is besides not retired of the question.

The 1 happening that is wide astir the adjacent large ‌iPad Pro‌ update according to rumors is that it volition not motorboat successful 2023, meaning that immoderate caller ‌iPad Pro‌ models this twelvemonth look precise unlikely. Apple waited implicit 18 months betwixt the 2021 and 2022 ‌iPad‌ Pros, and if a akin timeline was followed again, the next-generation ‌iPad Pro‌ would motorboat successful May 2024.

14-Inch iPad: Cancelled

A 14.1-inch ‌iPad‌ was antecedently rumored to motorboat successful in aboriginal 2023, but the latest reports suggest specified a instrumentality is nary longer successful the works.

While it was initially said to diagnostic a mini-LED show and ProMotion technology, it was aboriginal believed to feature an LCD display similar the ‌iPad Air‌. This suggests that it was not an ‌iPad Pro‌ model, but alternatively an all-new benignant of ‌iPad‌ that focused connected a ample show without precocious features contiguous connected the high-end ‌iPad‌ models.

Larger iPads are inactive a anticipation for the future, arsenic The Information believes Apple is designing a 16-inch iPad and Bloomberg has repeatedly confirmed Apple's interest successful bigger iPads.

With the cancellation of the 14.1-inch ‌iPad‌, which was ostensibly the astir acold developed larger ‌iPad‌ exemplary connected relationship of the corroborated rumors surrounding the device, arsenic good arsenic the lone ‌iPad‌ rumored to motorboat successful the archetypal fractional of the year, it present seems to beryllium the lawsuit that immoderate larger ‌iPad‌ models are disconnected the cards for 2023.