Apple Unveils New iPad 10.9 with A14 Chip

Featuring a large 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display, the powerful A14 Bionic chip, advanced cameras, fast wireless connectivity, USB-C, support for the new Magic Keyboard Folio, and more.

Apple introduced the new iPad with an all-screen design featuring a large 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display. The new iPad is powered by the A14 Bionic chip, which delivers faster performance with better power efficiency.

Updated cameras include an Ultra Wide 12MP front camera located along the landscape edge of iPad, and an updated 12MP back camera to capture sharp, vivid photos and 4K video.

The Design

The new iPad features in four different colours — blue, pink, yellow, and silver. The 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display extends to the edges, so users have more screen area for apps and games. The new Liquid Retina display provides a better visual experience with 2360x1640-pixel resolution, nearly 4 million pixels, 500 nits of brightness, and True Tone technology.

The Chip

The New A14 Bionic chip comes to iPad, delivering a 20 percent increase in CPU and 10 percent improvement in graphics over the previous generation. The company claims, that it makes the new iPad up to 5x faster than the best-selling Android tablet. Users looking to upgrade from a device like iPad (7th generation), will see up to 3x improvement in overall performance with the new model. Advanced machine learning functions are powered by a 16-core Neural Engine in A14 Bionic — offering double the number of cores of A13 — boosting machine learning capabilities by up to 80 percent.

New Features

iPadOS 16 introduces new productivity and collaboration features, so users can get even more done on iPad.

• New features in Messages allow users to edit or unsend recently sent messages, recover recently deleted messages, and mark conversations as unread.
• Freeform, a new productivity app built into iPadOS with a flexible canvas and full support for Apple Pencil, gives users the ability to see, share, and collaborate all in one place.
• iCloud Shared Photo Library allows users to share photos seamlessly and automatically among up to six family members.
• Safari adds shared Tab Groups to browse the web with others, and the browsing experience gets even more secure with passkeys.
• In Mail, users can now schedule emails ahead of time and are even given a moment to cancel delivery of a message before it reaches a recipient’s inbox.
• The Weather app comes to iPad, designed to take full advantage of the stunning display with beautiful animations, and with just a tap, users can see the most important weather information.
• Live Text uses on-device intelligence to recognize text in images across the system, and the feature now comes to video, making text completely interactive in paused video frames. Visual Look Up now allows users to lift the subject from an image or isolate a subject by removing the background with just a tap.