TechTablets2024 iPad Pro tipped for crucial design changeApple is reportedly moving a crucial component to make your iPad experience a little less annoyingWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechTablets2024 iPad Pro tipped for crucial design changeApple is reportedly moving a crucial component to make your iPad experience a little less annoyingWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple is reportedly moving a crucial component to make your iPad experience a little less annoying
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(Image credit: Apple)
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That’s great, because if you have a 12.9-inchiPadPro you’ll be very aware that there are two kinds of Pro users: there are the Pro users who use their iPads in landscape mode, and there are pro users who are wrong. The bigger iPad is much better in landscape mode than it is in portrait, something even Apple subtly demonstrates with the design of its Magic Keyboard (pictured), which is landscape.
Which iPads will be getting the repositioned Face ID camera?
The news comes viaMacRumors, which reports that during iPadOS 17.4 setup (which is currently in beta) you need to have your iPad in landscape mode “with the camera at the top of the screen”. The Face ID bit is significant here, because while the 10th generation iPad also has its camera in landscape mode that iPad doesn’t have Face ID. So the reference here is clearly for the iPad Pro, which for now at least is the only iPad with Apple’s face detection feature.
It could also be a sign that the iPad Air is getting the tech, although for now there’s nothing to suggest that’s anything other than wishful thinking on my part.
The next generation of Airs and Pros are expected this spring, possibly as early as late March or early April, and the iPadOS updates support that timing: iPadOS 18 is still many months away, so it’s iPadOS 17 that’ll need to support any hardware changes.
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