Apple refreshes the iPad, but doesn’t add Apple Intelligence

Mar 04, 2025 09:18 PM - 1 week ago 15146

For the first clip successful much than 2 years, there’s a caller base-model iPad connected the market. Apple conscionable announced the 11th-generation iPad pinch a property release, but dissimilar the caller products Apple has launched lately, this 1 doesn’t travel pinch Apple Intelligence.

Instead, the new iPad comes equipped pinch an upgraded A16 chip, on pinch “double the starting storage” astatine 128GB. It starts astatine $349 and will beryllium disposable connected March 12th successful an array of colors, including blue, pink, yellow, and silver.

With its launch, the 11th-gen iPad will stay the only caller iPad without Apple Intelligence. The new iPad Air, which Apple besides announced connected Tuesday, supports AI-powered features, and the aforesaid goes for the iPad Mini and iPad Pro released past year.

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The 10th-generation iPad, this caller device’s predecessor, was a somewhat confusing entrant successful Apple’s tablet lineup. Apple launched the instrumentality successful 2022 pinch a much modern design, a faster chip, and a bigger surface than the 9th-gen iPad, but it besides costs $449 alternatively of the long-standing $329 guidelines price. (Just to make things much complicated, Apple kept trading the 9th-gen exemplary for $329 — truthful which 1 was really the guidelines iPad is difficult to say.) Since then, we’ve gotten a new iPad Pro, a new Air, and a new Mini, which near only the guidelines exemplary emotion retired of date. All Apple had fixed it was a value cut, down to $349.

The iPad lineup has been confusing for a while, but arsenic ever, the bully news is that there are nary bad iPads. And insignificant upgrade aliases not, the guidelines iPad is still apt the correct iPad for astir people.

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