New iPad Pro Adds Face ID, USB-C and Ditches the Home Button

In improver to overhauling its MacBook Air and Mac mini, Apple today likewise gave its iPad Pro lineup an upgrade that brings the tablet more in line with its iPhone X smartphones.

That includes the addition of Face ID, the demise of the dwelling button, and an edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display. As a result, iPhone Ten gestures will come to iPad: swipe down from the upper-right for Control Eye and swipe upwards for apps.

Notably, the new iPad Pro embraces USB-C, replacing the Lightning connector for charging. It will support USB three.1 Gen ii for high-bandwidth data transfers between cameras and musical instruments and back up external displays up to 5K.

A side by side-gen $129 Apple tree Pencil will magnetically adhere to the iPad and charge wirelessly. A bear on sensor on the stylus will recognize taps, co-ordinate to Apple.

iPad Pro 2022

In terms of size, Apple tree unveiled a new xi-inch iPad Pro; that'south up from ten.5 inches, but doesn't add any heft to the tablet's body; it still weighs just a pound. The 12.9-inch will maintain that display size merely come up in a "dramatically smaller" body.

Both new iPad Pros are just v.9mm thick, or 25 percent less volume than their predecessors.

The new iPad Pros run a new A12X Bionic bit with four functioning cores and four efficiency cores. That provides "up to 35 percent faster unmarried-cadre operation and a new operation controller for simultaneous use of all eight cores for an upwards to 90 percent heave during multi-threaded tasks," Apple says. The seven-core Apple GPU offers upwardly to twice the graphics performance.

The new tablets should get up to 10 hours of battery life.

Face ID, meanwhile, will work in any position, and will allow people to create Animoji and Memoji.

The new eleven-inch iPad Pro starts at $799, and the 12.9-inch version will offset at $999. Both come up in silver or space gray in 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB configurations. Apple has as well added a new 1TB choice, which could set you dorsum as much as $1,899 for the Wi-Fi and cellular 12.ix-inch model. Pre-orders for all models begin today and the new iPads arrive on Nov. 7.

Apple tree is also offering a new Smart Keyboard Folio in space greyness for for the 11-inch iPad Pro and for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. A new Smart Page will besides be on sale in a multifariousness of colors for for the eleven-inch iPad Pro and for the 12.nine-inch iPad Pro.

The existing ten.5-inch iPad Pro volition remain on sale, offset at $649.

Rob Marvin contributed to this report.

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