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New iPad Pro 2021: Release date, price, rumors and everything we know - Tom's
Guide
A new iPad Pro 2021 model is expected to drop soon. But how will Apple entice
shoppers to spend over $1,000 on a new iPad? The big changes, we're hearing,
are on the inside.
These changes may include new screen technologies, adopting the Apple M1 chip
<https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-m1-chip-everything-you-need-to-know-about-apple-silicon-macs>
and faster cellular connectivity. If so, the next iPad Pro would easily keep
its spot on our best tablets <https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-tablet>
list.
New iPad Pro 2021 release date
The new iPad Pro is expected to be revealed in March 2021, just like last
year's updates. This date doesn't just make sense with recent history, but has
been floated by Japanese news site Macotakara
<http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/rumor/entry-40808.html>.
(Image credit: Henry T. Casey/Tom's Guide)
March is one of Apple's primary iPad release windows, and the company has
launched new iPads in March since 2016. The most recent example was the
previous iPad Pro, which added the LiDAR camera and the A12Z Bionic processor.
The current buzz points to the new iPad Pro coming out at an Apple Spring 2021
event
<https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-spring-2021-event-preview-ipad-pro-airpods-pro-2-and-more>.
That's due in part to the regular iPad being released in the fall for two
years in a row, and Apple's practice of never announcing new iPad Pros at the
same event it reveals new iPads.
New iPad Pro 2021 price
Expect Apple's pricing for the 11-inch iPad Pro ($750) and 12.9-inch iPad Pro
($999) to stay put. The last two generations of iPad Pro tablets stuck to this
pricing, and everything we're seeing suggests that will continue.
The introduction of the mid-range iPad Air gives Apple no reason to lower the
iPad Pro's price. Similarly, Apple doesn't seem to be adding much in this
year's iPad Pro that would give them an excuse to charge more.
New iPad Pro 2021 rumors
The big rumors about the iPad Pro 2021 tell us that Apple is focusing on the
tablet's internal components. Since last year, we've seen speculation that the
iPad Pro will be the first of Apple's iPads with 5G. Now that 5G is in the
iPhone 12, it's logical that Apple would want to use those components in its
iPad Pro as well.
Deep inside a post from case-maker and render-publisher Pigtou
<https://coverpigtou.it/apple/ipad>, which mostly focuses on renders of the
iPad Pro, there's more chatter of internal upgrades. The post notes a
possibility we're starting to hear in whispers: the new iPad Pro may rock a
version of the Apple Silicon chip seen in the MacBook Air with M1
<https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/macbook-air-2020-m1>. The company could also
just go with an upgraded version of the A12Z chip in the current iPad Pro, and
call it the A13Z.
(Image credit: Apple)
MacOtakara reports that Apple is leaving most of the new iPad Pro "housing
design unchanged." That means we should expect it to look like the previous
iPad Pro, just with tweaks such as slightly slimmer bezels and fewer speaker
holes. The camera bump may also protrude less.
A lot of the similarities between 2020 iPad Pros and the iPad Pro 2021 are
traced to leaked renders
<https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/ipad-pro-2021-12-9-design-cad-renders/> of the
new iPad Pro's design.
The 12.9 inch iPad Pro 2021 will be 0.5 mm thicker, which may be hard for the
untrained eye to notice. That said, it could let Apple switch out its current
display technology for mini-LED
<https://www.tomsguide.com/news/year-of-the-mini-led-tv> screens.
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)
The iPad Pro has been rumored to be going into production with mini-LED panels
since last summer
<https://www.tomsguide.com/news/ipad-pro-with-mini-led-display-enters-production-and-it-could-arrive-this-year>.
This change would move Apple away from LCD displays and deliver improved
contrast ratios, truer black tones and improved brightness. This would be made
possible thanks to smaller LEDs, as the mini-LED name implies.
Patents also suggest Apple may be considering a new Magic Keyboard
<https://www.tomsguide.com/news/new-ipad-pro-2021-leak-just-revealed-magic-keyboard-upgrade>
as well. A close reading of the patents suggests that the Magic Keyboard could
feature microphones, which could be used for better audio when video
conferencing.
New iPad Pro 2021 wish list: What we want
Let's talk about what else could be going on under the hood of the iPad Pro
2021. We would love to see Apple put a Touch ID fingerprint sensor under the
screen. The iPad Air's lock-button fingerprint reader is a nifty touch, but an
under-the-screen fingerprint reader might get people to pay more — and prevent
the iPad Air from cannibalizing the iPad Pro's sales.
Here's a change that's less likely: a folding display. That would be impossible
without changes to the chassis and internals, but having seen the Lenovo
ThinkPad X1 Fold <https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-fold>,
we're curious to see what Apple would do with a folding iPad. It's one major
way the iPad Pro could continue to stand out. Of course, that could easily
raise its price as well.
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