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PRESS RELEASE October 18, 2022

The caller iPad Pro features a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience, ProRes video capture, superfast Wi-Fi 6E, and almighty features successful iPadOS 16

With breakthrough show of the M2 chip, a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience, and superfast wireless connectivity, the caller iPad Pro delivers a almighty and unsocial iPad acquisition that continues to beryllium successful a people of its own.

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple contiguous announced the caller iPad Pro with the M2 chip, delivering the eventual operation of portability, versatility, and unbelievable performance. The caller iPad Pro features a next-level Apple Pencil hover acquisition and superfast wireless connectivity, on with the world’s astir precocious mobile display, pro cameras, Face ID, Thunderbolt, and a four-speaker audio system. New features successful iPadOS 16 — including Stage Manager, afloat outer show support,1 desktop-class apps, and Reference Mode — instrumentality pro workflows connected iPad adjacent further. Enabled by its precocious hardware and iPadOS 16, iPad Pro has an unthinkable ecosystem of almighty pro apps dissimilar immoderate different instrumentality of its kind. The caller iPad Pro is disposable to bid starting today, and successful stores opening Wednesday, October 26.

“The next-generation iPad Pro pushes the boundaries of what’s imaginable connected iPad, bringing adjacent much versatility, power, and portability to the eventual iPad experience,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s elder vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Powered by the M2 chip, the caller iPad Pro features unthinkable show and the astir precocious technologies, including a next-level Apple Pencil hover experience, ProRes video capture, superfast wireless connectivity, and almighty iPadOS 16 features. There’s thing other similar it.”

Breakthrough Performance from the M2 Chip

M2, the commencement of Apple’s adjacent procreation of M-series chips, brings adjacent much breakthrough show and capabilities to iPad Pro, with industry-leading powerfulness efficiency, a unified representation architecture, and customized technologies.

M2 features an 8-core CPU — up to 15 percent faster than M1 — with advancements successful some show and ratio cores, and a 10-core GPU, delivering up to 35 percent faster graphics show for the astir demanding users. Combined with the CPU and GPU, the 16-core Neural Engine tin process 15.8 trillion operations per 2nd — 40 percent much than M1 — making iPad Pro adjacent much almighty erstwhile handling instrumentality learning tasks. The M2 spot besides features 100GB/s of unified representation bandwidth — 50 percent much than M1 — and supports up to 16GB of accelerated unified memory, making multitasking and moving with ample assets adjacent much fluid.2

The show of M2 turbocharges adjacent the astir demanding workflows, from photographers editing monolithic photograph libraries and designers manipulating analyzable 3D objects, to healthcare professionals taking precocious imaging and analysis, to gamers enjoying graphics-intensive games. The powerfulness of M2 besides extends to the caller media motor and the representation awesome processor, which combined with the precocious cameras, alteration users to seizure ProRes video for the archetypal clip and transcode ProRes footage up to 3x faster. This means contented creators tin capture, edit, and people cinema-grade video from a azygous instrumentality retired successful the field.

A Next-Level Apple Pencil Hover Experience

Powered by the caller iPad Pro and iPadOS 16, hover with Apple Pencil (2nd generation) provides a wholly caller magnitude for users to interact with their screen. Apple Pencil is present detected up to 12 mm supra the display, allowing users to spot a preview of their people earlier they marque it. This besides allows users to sketch and exemplify with adjacent greater precision, and makes everything users bash with Apple Pencil adjacent much effortless. For example, with Scribble, substance fields automatically grow erstwhile the pencil gets adjacent the screen, and handwriting converts to substance adjacent faster. Third-party apps tin besides instrumentality vantage of this caller diagnostic to alteration wholly caller marking and drafting experiences.

The Apple Pencil hover acquisition detects up to 12 mm supra the display, allowing users to spot a preview of their people earlier they marque it.

Superfast Wireless Connectivity 

The caller iPad Pro supports the fastest Wi-Fi connections with enactment for Wi-Fi 6E,3 truthful users who request accelerated connections tin instrumentality their demanding workflows with them everywhere. Downloads are up to 2.4Gb/s, 2x faster than the erstwhile generation. Wi-Fi + Cellular models with 5G (sub-6GHz and mmWave4) present enactment much 5G networks astir the world, truthful users tin entree their files, pass with colleagues, and backmost up their information successful a drawback portion connected the go.5

The caller iPad Pro is the archetypal Apple instrumentality with Wi-Fi 6E, with downloads of up to 2.4Gbps, and is cleanable for users looking to instrumentality their workflows anywhere.

Unmatched Pro Features Enabled by iPadOS 16

In summation to large updates to Messages, caller tools successful Mail and Safari, the caller Weather app, and much ways to interact with photos and video with Live Text and Visual Look Up, iPadOS 16 besides introduces almighty productivity features that elevate the iPad Pro experience:

  • Stage Manager is an wholly caller multitasking acquisition that automatically organizes apps and windows, making it speedy and casual to power betwixt tasks. Later this year, Stage Manager volition unlock afloat outer show support with resolutions of up to 6K, truthful users volition beryllium capable to put the perfect workspace, and enactment with up to 4 apps connected iPad and up to 4 apps connected the outer display.
  • Desktop-class apps enable caller capabilities optimized for the show connected iPad Pro — making apps much susceptible with caller elements and interactions, including a accordant undo and redo, a redesigned inline find-and-replace experience, a caller papers menu, customizable toolbars, and the quality to alteration record extensions, presumption folder size successful Files, and more.
  • Reference Mode enables the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR show to lucifer the colour requirements successful workflows similar reappraisal and approve, colour grading, and compositing, wherever close colors and accordant representation prime are critical. That means pro users, including photographers and videographers, tin edit HDR images and videos with each true-to-life item close successful their hands, and cinematographers connected acceptable tin preview contented successful a colour illustration that represents the last capture.

iPad and the Environment

The caller iPad models are designed to minimize their interaction connected the situation and see 100 percent recycled golden — a archetypal for iPad — successful the plating of aggregate printed circuit boards, arsenic good arsenic recycled aluminum, tin, and uncommon world elements. All iPad models conscionable Apple’s precocious standards for vigor ratio and are mercury-, BFR-, PVC-, and beryllium-free. Redesigned packaging successful the caller iPad Pro eliminates the outer integrative wrap, and 99 percent of the packaging is fibre based, bringing Apple person to its extremity of wholly removing integrative from each packaging by 2025.

Today, Apple is c neutral for planetary firm operations, and by 2030, plans to beryllium 100 percent c neutral crossed the full manufacturing proviso concatenation and each merchandise beingness cycles. This means that each Apple instrumentality sold, from constituent manufacturing, assembly, transport, lawsuit use, charging, each the mode done recycling and worldly recovery, volition person net-zero clime impact.

Pricing and Availability

  • The caller iPad Pro is disposable to bid opening today, October 18, astatine apple.com/store and successful the Apple Store app successful 28 countries and regions, including the US, with availability successful stores opening Wednesday, October 26.
  • The caller 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro volition beryllium disposable successful metallic and abstraction grey finishes with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.
  • The 11-inch iPad Pro starts astatine $799 (US) for the Wi-Fi exemplary and $999 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model; the 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts astatine $1,099 (US) for the Wi-Fi model, and $1,299 (US) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model.
  • Apple Pencil (2nd generation), disposable for acquisition separately, is compatible with the caller iPad Pro for $129 (US).
  • Magic Keyboard is disposable successful achromatic and achromatic for $299 (US) for the caller 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the caller 12.9-inch iPad Pro, with layouts for implicit 30 languages.
  • The Smart Keyboard Folio for the caller iPad Pro is disposable for $179 (US) for the caller 11-inch iPad Pro and $199 (US) for the caller 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
  • The Smart Folio is disposable successful black, white, and marine bluish for $79 (US) for the caller 11-inch iPad Pro and $99 (US) for the caller 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
  • Education pricing is disposable to existent and recently accepted assemblage students and their parents, arsenic good arsenic faculty, staff, and home-school teachers of each people levels. The caller 11-inch iPad Pro starts astatine $749 (US), and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts at $999 (US). The second-generation Apple Pencil is disposable for $119 (US), and the Smart Keyboard Folio is disposable for $159 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $179 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. The Magic Keyboard volition beryllium disposable astatine $279 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $329 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. For much accusation sojourn apple.com/us-hed/shop.
  • iPadOS 16, the almighty operating strategy designed specifically for iPad, volition beryllium disposable opening Monday, October 24, and ships for escaped with the caller iPad Pro. iPadOS 16 volition beryllium disposable arsenic a escaped bundle update for iPad (5th procreation and later), iPad mini (5th procreation and later), iPad Air (3rd procreation and later), and each iPad Pro models.
  • Customers tin commercialized successful their existent iPad and get recognition toward a caller one. When their instrumentality has been received and verified, Apple volition recognition the worth to their outgo method.
  • Engrave iPad with a meaningful premix of emoji, names, initials, and numbers, each for free, disposable lone astatine apple.com/store oregon successful the Apple Store app.
  • Apple provides customers with a fig of services in-store and online. From personalized enactment and proposal from Apple Specialists to convenient transportation and pickup options, Apple ensures the champion mode to bargain Apple products is from Apple Store locations and apple.com/store.
  1. Full outer show enactment for Stage Manager connected M1 and M2 iPad models volition beryllium disposable successful a bundle update aboriginal this year.
  2. Performance is compared with previous-generation iPad Pro.
  3. Wi-Fi 6E is not disposable successful China mainland and Japan.
  4. mmWave is lone disposable successful the US and Puerto Rico.
  5. 5G wireless program and sum required. Speeds volition vary. Check with carriers for details.