Apple’s foldable iPad could be like ‘two iPad Pros side-by-side’

Apple hopes to merchandise a foldable 18.8-inch creaseless iPad by astir 2028, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes successful today’s Power On newsletter. The company’s concern plan radical has reportedly managed to make prototypes of this instrumentality that “have a astir invisible crease” and would fundamentally beryllium similar “two iPad Pros side-by-side.”

Rumors of a folding iPad person been floating successful the ether for years, now. Recent ones see a smaller exemplary that Apple would release successful 2026 oregon 2027. Gurman’s write-up contiguous has beardown echoes of the gargantuan 20-inch folding “iPad / MacBook hybrid” helium detailed successful 2022. That doesn’t look to mean that it volition tally macOS, but Gurman claims that it “will person elements of both” Macs and iPads and that iPadOS “should beryllium precocious capable to tally macOS apps” by 2028.

Considering that Macs tally iPhone and iPad apps now, it’s not outrageous to deliberation the thoroughfare could spell some ways successful time. It mightiness assistance the worth proposition, too; the 13-inch iPad Pro starts astatine $1,299, and immoderate fiscal harm an iPad doubly that size could incur would beryllium a small easier to instrumentality coupled with the salve of being capable to tally macOS apps connected it.

Gurman says a foldable iPhone is inactive successful the works, though helium doesn’t expect that “before 2026 astatine the earliest,” arsenic other rumors person said. He besides says accusation from his sources lines up with an alleged Apple interior show roadmap that made the rounds recently, tipping the 18.8-inch foldable iPad and Apple’s plans to merchandise OLED MacBook Pros successful 2026, followed by a MacBook Air OLED update successful 2027.