Apple iPad Mini (2024): Specs, Release Date, Price, Features

The seventh generation of Apple's tiniest iPad is yet here, 3 years since its past refresh. There was nary fancy pretaped oregon unrecorded event—the institution softly announced the new tablet done its online newsroom. The header diagnostic encapsulating this device? Apple Intelligence. Apple's artificial quality features inactive aren't disposable for the iPhone 16, but they're owed to get this period via iOS 18.1.

Starting astatine $499 for the basal model, the seventh-gen iPad Mini has the aforesaid chassis arsenic its predecessor, but with a fewer upgrades including a caller processor, enactment for Apple Intelligence, and treble the storage. It besides works with the latest Apple Pencil Pro. It's available for preorder now and ships October 23.

It's What's Inside

The sixth-generation iPad Mini got a large facelift successful 2021, truthful it's not shocking that Apple kept the outer features the aforesaid successful this iteration. This tablet packs an 8.3-inch LCD screen, slim bezels, a 12-megapixel selfie camera, on with a USB-C larboard (now with 10 Gbps information transportation speeds). The rear camera has a 12-megapixel sensor with enactment for Smart HDR 4, an updated representation processing algorithm with the capableness to observe and scan documents from the Camera app (a diagnostic we saw introduced backmost successful May with the M4-powered iPad Pro).

The much important changes are inside. Apple upgraded the processor from the A15 (the chipset wrong the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro models) to an A17 Pro, the precise aforesaid that's successful the iPhone 15 Pro. With a six-core CPU, the institution claims it delivers a 30 percent boost successful CPU show portion the five-core GPU offers a 25 percent leap compared to the erstwhile model. Meanwhile, the neural motor is doubly arsenic fast.

Putting this spot wrong the iPad Mini means it tin enactment Apple Intelligence—a suite of artificial quality tools coming successful iOS 18.1. It makes the iPad Mini the cheapest tablet of the lineup to person these features. Other supported models see the 5th-gen M1 iPad Air, 6th-gen M2 iPad Air, 5th-gen M1 iPad Pro, 6th-gen M2 iPad Pro, and 7th-gen M4 iPad Pro.