Apple provides iPad mini its greatest replace ever
October 26, 2026
PRESS RELEASE
Apple provides iPad mini its greatest replace ever
Featuring a shocking OLED show in a good thinner and lighter design, an enormous leap in efficiency, sooner wi-fi connectivity, and water and mud resistance
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment unveiled the all-new iPad mini, that includes a shocking OLED show in a good thinner and lighter design, an enormous leap in efficiency with A20 Pro, and water and mud resistance.1 The bigger 8.5-inch OLED show, additionally obtainable with a nano-texture choice, delivers increased distinction and greater than 2x increased peak brightness than the previous-generation iPad mini for an excellent and immersive viewing expertise.2 A20 Pro supercharges AI with Neural Accelerators in every GPU core and Dual 16-core Neural Engine. iPad mini now has a 12MP Center Stage entrance digital camera on the panorama edge that’s excellent for video calls, an progressive Acoustic Display for a good higher audio expertise, sooner wi-fi and mobile connectivity, and fast-charge assist.3 With its unbelievable set of superior options, it’s essentially the most succesful and versatile iPad mini ever.
The new iPad mini is powered by iPadOS 27 with the following technology of Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, which may draw on a person’s private context to assist them discover what they want, reply questions on nearly any matter with broad globe information, and perceive what’s on their display screen.4 The mixture of highly effective options and game-changing iPadOS 27 capabilities makes the brand new iPad mini a compelling worth. Customers can pre-order it together with the brand new Smart Folio beginning Wednesday, October 28, with availability starting Friday, November 6.
“iPad mini is beloved for its implausible portability, efficiency, and show by a variety of customers, from creators and small trade homeowners to docs, area service staff, and avid gamers,” stated Dave Pakula, Apple’s vp of Hardware Engineering. “With a remarkably thinner and lighter design, a shocking new OLED show, the extremely highly effective A20 Pro, and water and mud resistance, the brand new iPad mini is a big leap ahead for customers who love having the complete iPad expertise within the palm of their hand.”
Thinner and Lighter Than Ever
At 5.4 mm skinny, the brand new iPad mini is extra moveable than ever, and is obtainable in two beautiful finishes: a brand new midnight and a phenomenal starlight. Remarkably thinner and lighter than the earlier technology, iPad mini is now even simpler to hold, whether or not a person is studying, engaged on the go, or utilizing it with one hand. It additionally options an IP67 ranking to guard towards water and mud — very best for a spread of use circumstances, similar to working outdoors on a wet day or studying by the pool.1
A Stunning OLED Display
The new iPad mini comes with a shocking OLED show that delivers wonderful front-of-screen efficiency and a good bigger 8.5-inch dimension whereas sustaining the identical footprint because the earlier mini, because of 24 % thinner bezels.2 The Super Retina XDR show options OLED expertise to ship pixel-level lighting management for a lot deeper blacks and assist for the P3 broad colour gamut for extra vivid and correct imagery.
For a good higher visible expertise throughout a spread of lighting situations, iPad mini additionally options peak brightness of as much as 1200 nits — greater than 2x increased than the earlier technology — and helps 600 nits of full-screen brightness for SDR and HDR content material, together with a 2,000,000:1 distinction ratio. And with a 1-nit minimal brightness, iPad mini is much more appropriate for dim environments, from customers studying in mattress at night time to pilots checking their digital flight bag within the cockpit. iPad mini additionally gives a brand new nano-texture show choice, which customers love on iPad Pro, that reduces glare in vibrant environments — very best for creatives modifying outdoor or technicians working within the area. Together, these show developments lengthen the flexibility of iPad mini throughout a good wider vary of use circumstances.
A Huge Leap in Performance
A20 Pro delivers an enormous leap in efficiency for iPad mini, considerably boosting graphics and AI-intensive duties. It is constructed utilizing Apple’s newest 2-nanometer course of expertise and a brand new bundle impressed by M-series chips. Powered by a 7-core GPU with Neural Accelerators in every GPU core, iPad mini delivers as much as 4.5x sooner AI efficiency than the earlier technology — excellent for AI duties starting from working on-device fashions in inventive apps to working native LLMs.3 And with the most recent graphics structure, together with dynamic caching and hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, graphics efficiency jumps by as much as 2.7x — nice for gaming and 3D rendering.3 A20 Pro additionally options as much as a 6-core CPU for as much as 60 % sooner multithreaded efficiency for on a regular basis duties like modifying pictures and dealing throughout apps.3
The 512GB configuration includes a highly effective Dual 16-core Neural Engine, which gives double the processing energy of the earlier technology, accelerating duties in apps like Draw Things and Detail. By partaking all 32 cores, A20 Pro turns into a powerhouse for extra superior on-device AI workloads. A20 Pro additionally brings over a 2x enhance in unified reminiscence bandwidth, unlocking extra efficiency for brand spanking new ranges of functionality and responsiveness throughout graphics and AI-intensive workloads.
A Rich New Audio Experience and Advanced Cameras
The new iPad mini options an progressive Acoustic Display for a good higher audio expertise when gaming, watching movies, or modifying content material. Specially designed woofers are paired by the show to provide punchier bass and extra quantity. In addition, customized tweeters at the moment are hidden between the glass and aluminum enclosure for clearer highs. The Acoustic Display additionally includes a sealed enclosure that helps iPad mini obtain its IP67 ranking.
The 12MP Center Stage entrance digital camera is now on the panorama edge, excellent for FaceTime calls, video conferencing, and collaboration. And the 12MP Wide again digital camera captures beautiful pictures with Smart HDR 4 and 4K video at as much as 60 fps, whereas the addition of an Adaptive True Tone flash improves pictures and makes doc scanning higher than ever.
N1 and C2 Come to iPad mini
iPad mini now options N1, an Apple-designed wi-fi networking chip that permits Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread.5 N1 brings higher efficiency when linked to 5GHz Wi-Fi networks and improves the general efficiency and reliability of options like AirDrop and AirPlay.6
Cellular fashions of the brand new iPad mini characteristic C2, Apple’s next-generation mobile modem system. C2 permits as much as 50 % sooner mobile knowledge speeds in comparison with the earlier technology of iPad mini, with even better energy effectivity.6 And with iPadOS 27, transferring between mobile and Wi-Fi networks is extra seamless than ever, so customers can keep linked on a FaceTime name even whereas they’re in transit. Users also can take pleasure in the advantages of eSIM, which lets them shortly and securely add a brand new plan, join and switch present plans digitally, and keep in contact with household and associates no matter Wi-Fi availability.7
iPadOS 27 with the Next Generation of Apple Intelligence and Siri AI
iPad mini customers can get much more accomplished with Siri AI, rolling out in beta with iPadOS 27. Siri AI is a completely new model of Siri, powered by Apple Intelligence, that’s profoundly extra private, succesful, and conversational.4 iPad mini additionally helps Apple’s most superior on-device mannequin ever, for much more expressive voices with Siri AI in addition to a serious increase in accuracy with systemwide dictation.
Siri AI can draw on private context understanding to assist customers discover what they want within the second throughout their private messages, emails, pictures, and extra; use onscreen consciousness to take motion associated to the content material on a person’s display screen; and reply questions on nearly any matter. Additionally, Apple Intelligence makes apps smarter and extra helpful. Users can enhance a photograph’s composition after it’s been taken utilizing instruments similar to upgraded Clean Up, Spatial Reframing, and Extend. And now the all-new Image Playground app gives photorealistic imagery. In Safari, Notify Me helps customers monitor internet pages for modifications, like product restocks or value drops, and keep on high of updates. Apple Intelligence makes use of on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute to assist shield customers’ privateness. When Private Cloud Compute is dealing with customers’ requests, their private knowledge will not be saved nor made accessible to Apple or anybody else.
iPadOS 27 additionally delivers an expansive set of enhancements that make iPad extra responsive, dependable, and simple to make use of, together with updates to Liquid Glass, together with a brand new slider in Settings that offers customers the choice to personalize it, adjusting it anyplace from ultraclear to completely tinted to match their desire. With iPadOS 27.2, iPad mini additionally helps prolonged show mode when linked to an exterior show, nice for customers multitasking with windowed apps.
Additionally, highly effective and easy-to-use tools assist dad and mom handle what their youngsters can see, who they will discuss to, and after they have entry to apps. For dad and mom and households in search of extra data on how one can assist create safer, extra enriching digital experiences for his or her youngsters, Apple additionally has a website with particulars on the most recent instruments and how one can get began utilizing them.
Accessories That Unlock More Ways to Be Productive and Creative
The new Smart Folio includes a two-panel structure, providing a slim, light-weight cowl that magnetically attaches to iPad mini.8 Crafted with TechWoven material in navy blue and taupe to enhance the iPad mini finishes, the Smart Folio has an adjustable design that offers customers a better vary of movement, together with new viewing angles, for enhanced versatility.
iPad mini helps each Apple Pencil (USB-C) and Apple Pencil Pro, giving customers two unbelievable choices to deliver their concepts to life.8 Apple Pencil (USB-C) is a superb worth for on a regular basis duties like note-taking and sketching, whereas Apple Pencil Pro delivers industry-leading capabilities for the final word pencil expertise. With Apple Pencil Pro, customers can make the most of progressive options like squeeze and barrel roll to work in totally new methods, in addition to make the most of Find My assist to assist find it when misplaced.
iPad mini and the Environment
iPad mini was constructed with the surroundings in thoughts and drives progress towards Apple’s bold plan to be carbon impartial throughout its whole footprint by 2030. It is made with 35 % recycled content material total,9 together with one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the enclosure and one hundred pc recycled cobalt within the battery. iPad mini is manufactured with 40 % renewable power, like wind and photo voltaic, throughout the provision chain. It is designed to be sturdy and repairable, and meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity and secure chemistry. As with all Apple merchandise, its paper packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based10 and designed to be recycled.
Pricing and Availability
- Customers can pre-order iPad mini with A20 Pro beginning Wednesday, October 28, at apple.com and within the Apple Store app in 36 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It will start arriving to clients, and will probably be in Apple Store areas and Apple Authorized Resellers, beginning Friday, November 6.
- iPad mini will probably be obtainable in midnight and starlight with 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB configurations.
- iPad mini begins at $699 (U.S.) or $58.25 (U.S.) per 30 days for 12 months for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $849 (U.S.) or $70.75 (U.S.) per 30 days for 12 months for the Wi-Fi + Cellular mannequin.11
- Apple Upgrade leasing costs for the iPad mini begin at $14.99 (U.S.) per 30 days for a 36-month lease for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $18.21 (U.S.) per 30 days for a 36-month lease for the Wi-Fi + Cellular mannequin.12
- With schooling financial savings, iPad mini begins at $649 (U.S.) or $54.08 (U.S.) per 30 days for 12 months.11
- The new TechWoven Smart Folio is obtainable in navy blue and taupe, and is obtainable for $79 (U.S.).
- Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C) are suitable with the brand new iPad mini. Apple Pencil Pro is obtainable for $129 (U.S.) and $119 (U.S.) with schooling financial savings. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is obtainable for $79 (U.S.) and $69 (U.S.) with schooling financial savings.
- AppleCare delivers distinctive service and assist, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Customers can select AppleCare+ to cowl their new iPad or, in obtainable exchanges, AppleCare One to guard a number of merchandise in a single easy plan. Both plans embody protection for accidents like drops and spills, theft and loss safety on eligible merchandise, battery alternative service, and precedence assist from Apple Experts. In the U.S., clients also can select AppleCare One Family, which extends that very same protection to each eligible machine throughout an Apple Family Sharing group for one mounted month-to-month value. For extra data, go to apple.com/applecare.
- Apple gives nice methods to avoid wasting on the most recent iPad. Customers can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one by visiting the Apple Store on-line, the Apple Store app, or an Apple Store location. To see what their machine is price, and for phrases and situations, clients can go to apple.com/shop/trade-in.13
- Customers within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card14 pays month-to-month at 0 % APR after they select to take a look at with Apple Card Monthly Installments,15 and so they’ll get 3 % Daily Cash again — all up entrance. More data — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is obtainable at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
- Customers within the U.S. also can pay for his or her Wi-Fi + Cellular iPad mini over time after they select to finance with a provider.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the globe in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the globe higher than we discovered it.
- iPad mini (A20 Pro) is splash, water, and mud resistant and was examined underneath managed laboratory situations with a ranking of IP67 underneath IEC customary 60529 (most depth of 1 meter as much as half-hour). Splash, water, and mud resistance should not everlasting situations. Resistance may lower because of regular put on. Do not try and cost a moist iPad; discuss with the person information for cleansing and drying directions. Liquid injury not lined underneath guarantee.
- The show has rounded corners. When measured diagonally as a rectangle, the 8.5-inch iPad mini is 8.5 inches. Actual viewable space is much less.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in September 2026. See apple.com/ipad-mini for extra data.
- Apple Intelligence is obtainable with Siri and machine language set to Chinese (simplified), Chinese (conventional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or languages. Some gadgets is probably not obtainable in all areas. Siri AI is obtainable in beta in iPadOS 27.2 and requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled machine set to a supported language. Available in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or languages. Siri AI will not be presently obtainable within the EU in iPadOS. Apple is working constructively with the EU in an try and discover a path ahead. Siri AI will not be obtainable for customers underneath 13. Certain Apple Intelligence options that depend on server-side fashions are topic to every day utilization limits, together with however not restricted to Siri AI, clever picture modifying instruments, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud fashions in Shortcuts. Daily limits might range by characteristic, request complexity, system demand, system insurance policies, and different elements. Expanded entry to such options will probably be obtainable for a charge sooner or later. Use of those options is topic to the Apple Intelligence phrases and situations. Learn extra at support.apple.com/148587.
- Wi‑Fi 7 obtainable in international locations and areas the place supported.
- Data plan required. 5G is obtainable in choose exchanges and thru choose carriers. Speeds range primarily based on web site situations and provider. For particulars on 5G assist, contact your provider and see apple.com/ipad/cellular.
- Not all carriers assist eSIM. For Model A3596, see your provider for particulars. For Model A3597, contact China Unicom for extra particulars.
- Accessories offered individually.
- Product recycled or renewable content material is the mass of licensed recycled materials relative to the general mass of the machine, not together with packaging or in-box equipment.
- Breakdown of U.S. retail packaging by weight. Adhesives, inks, and coatings are excluded from Apple’s calculations of plastic content material and packaging weight.
- Financing is obtainable to certified clients, topic to credit score approval and credit score restrict, and requires customers to pick Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) as their cost kind at checkout at Apple. Taxes and transport on objects bought utilizing ACMI are topic to their card’s variable APR, not the ACMI 0 % APR. ACMI will not be obtainable for purchases made on-line at particular storefronts. The final month’s cost for every product would be the product’s buy value, much less all different funds on the month-to-month cost quantity. ACMI financing is topic to vary at any time for any cause, together with however not restricted to installment time period lengths and eligible merchandise. See the Apple Card Customer Agreement for extra details about ACMI.
- This supply is for a client lease, not a purchase order or mortgage. Lease supplied by Klarna Inc. for a 24- or 36-month time period. Your first month-to-month cost is due roughly 30 days after machine is shipped or obtainable for pickup. Lease approval is topic to eligibility and is predicated on creditworthiness. Monthly funds are primarily based on the chosen machine and lease time period. Advertised cost quantity might not embody a trade-in machine’s estimated worth. Typical month-to-month funds for iPad mini (excluding taxes and any trade-in credit score) vary from $18.99 to $33.94 (U.S.) for a 24-month lease and $14.99 to $26.79 (U.S.) for a 36-month lease. No safety deposit required. Requires number of an eligible provider. Closing your lease and returning your machine terminates your lease. You might incur a considerable cost if you happen to terminate your lease earlier than the top of the lease time period. Additional phrases and situations apply. See apple.com/shop/apple-upgrade for extra data.
- Trade-in values will range primarily based on the situation, 12 months, and configuration of the eligible trade-in machine.
- Apple Card is topic to credit score approval, obtainable just for qualifying candidates within the United States, and issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch.
- Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) is a 0 % APR cost choice that’s solely obtainable if customers choose it at checkout within the U.S. for eligible merchandise bought at Apple and is topic to credit score approval and credit score restrict. See assist.apple.com/en-us/102730 for extra details about eligible merchandise. Additional limits and restrictions apply. See the Apple Card Customer Agreement for extra details about ACMI.
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