Whereas most of Apple ’s iPad mountain range stupefy some much - needed attention last year , the service line model suffered yet more neglect . The current 10th - gen iPad arrived in October 2022 and is long overdue for an update .
consort to a new write up , however , the time lag is almost over . And , perhaps unsurprisingly given that it ’s been two and a half old age since the last theoretical account , we can expect a serious ascent in processing baron for the11th generation . No physical redesign , but a major component refresh .
The new iPad models , Gurman append , have the internal codenames J481 and J482 . It ’s understood that the 10th - gen iPad was bear on to at Apple Park as J272 .
The 11th - gen iPad ’s hefty specification gibbousness twin the similar one direct to theiPhone SEthis natural spring . It ’s a fundamental part of Cupertino ’s AI strategy to recruit as many Apple Intelligence users as possible : It want to take the platform mainstream , build up mindshare , and assume grooming data . For this reason , it make sense for the cheap and therefore biggest - sell models in each card to offer Apple Intelligence reinforcement , even if that require a bigger - than - usual computer hardware upgrade .
Along with the 11th - gen iPad , Apple is expected to set in motion new iPad Air models in the natural spring of 2025 . These , too , will be physically selfsame to their predecessors from 2024 , with a specification bump being the focal point . Gurman read he “ would n’t be terribly surprised if the 2025 models get bumped up [ from the current M2 ] to the M4 , matching the iPad Pro . ”
That latter point is specially surprising because he also does n’t anticipate the iPad Pro ’s M5 update until former 2025 or former 2026 . That mean we can expect up to a yr in which the Pro and Air models are persist on mostly the same chipset .
It ’s strange whether Apple will denote the new iPhone SE and these novel iPad models at a dedicatedspring event , or only slip them out in a press release . There was a spring event in 2024 and 2022 , but not in 2023 ; your guess is as honorable as ours .
