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iPad Air front and back view showcasing thin construction

Built for Apple Intelligence.

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Available starting 12 March

Apple Intelligence coming in English in early April◊

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Two sizes. Infinite possibilities.

Front exterior, iPad Air showcasing the 11-inch model displaying Procreate and overlapping the back exterior of a blue iPad Air

You can choose between an 11-inch and a 13-inch iPad Air, each with a gorgeous, high-resolution Liquid Retina display that brings everything you love to do to life. Both displays deliver a brilliant, responsive and colour-accurate viewing experience.

Two sizes.
Infinite possibilities.

Front exterior of 11-inch iPad Air displaying Notes and 13-inch iPad Air displaying Photos to showcase the different display sizes

Choose your
own adventures.

Both the 11‑inch and 13‑inch models are perfectly portable and offer even more room to work, create, learn and play. Multitask with ease and work seamlessly across multiple apps at once. Take notes and collaborate instantly with your team in apps like Freeform. There’s incredible capability no matter which size you choose.

iPad Air screen displays Freeform and user on a FaceTime call
13″ model 2732x2048 display resolution
iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays an illustration in the Procreate app
11″ model 2360x1640 display resolution

Stunningly advanced display.

An anti-reflective screen coating and True Tone keep text sharp in all kinds of lighting conditions. With high brightness and P3 wide colour, images look stunning. Technically speaking, spectacular.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays a photograph of a girl holding yellow and green strands, standing in front of a sunset over the ocean iPad Air, a photo is being edited
600 nits brightness on 13-inch model
P3 wide colour
True Tone for comfortable viewing
Full lamination for reduced reflectivity
Anti-reflective
coating for the lowest reflectivity in
the industry

M3. Light it up.

iPad Air in landscape orientation, showcasing video editing in Final Cut Pro
iPad Air in landscape orientation and displaying a video game, two other iPad Air models below

The lightning‑fast M3 chip powers Apple Intelligence and brings breakout performance to iPad Air. With a powerful CPU, GPU and Neural Engine, it’s nearly 2x faster than iPad Air with M1 chip.3 The GPU architecture brings advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.4

M3.
Light it up.

Graphic image of action video game Where Winds Meet

A chip that’s ahead of the game.

The Apple-designed M3 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores to power all types of workflows and creative tasks. Its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 40 per cent faster graphics performance than iPad Air with M1 chip and introduces Dynamic Caching, hardware‑accelerated ray tracing and hardware‑accelerated mesh shading for vibrant and realistic photos, videos and graphics.

iPad Air showcasing advanced graphics for gaming
iPad Air with Apple Pencil attached, Portrait orientation, colourful image on the screen
8-coreCPU
9-coreGPU
16-core Neural Engine
Hardware-accelerated ray tracing

Advanced Neural Engine for advanced AI apps.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays Morpholio Trace app
iPad Air in portrait orientation, notes and images on screen
iPad Air, landscape orientation, showcasing the Neural Engine
Up to 60% faster Neural Engine performance
than M1

The 16‑core Neural Engine makes iPad Air a powerful device for AI, delivering up to 60 per cent faster performance than iPad Air with M1 chip. M3 powers Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Wand in the Notes app. And it enables AI‑driven note‑taking in Goodnotes 6, next‑level video editing in Final Cut Pro for iPad and pro‑quality shot tracking in Onform.

Apple Intelligence.Personal, private, powerful.

Coming in English in early April◊

iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.

Learn more about Apple Intelligence
Landscape view of iPad Air showcasing Apple Intelligence with Image Playground and Keynote, Apple Pencil Pro
Image Wand in Notes
Apple Intelligence enables delightful ways to express yourself visually. Turn a rough sketch into a related image with Image Wand. And create new images based on descriptions, suggested concepts and even a person from your Photos library with Image Playground.
Writing Tools help you find just the right words and transform the way you communicate. Proofread your text, rewrite different versions to get the right tone and summarise selected text with a tap.
Landscape view of iPad Air showcasing Apple Intelligence, with Writing Tools and Mail
Writing Tools in Mail
Writing Tools help you find just the right words and transform the way you communicate. Proofread your text, rewrite different versions to get the right tone and summarise selected text with a tap.
Landscape view of iPad Air showcasing Apple Intelligence with the Clean Up tool in Photos app
Clean Up in Photos
With the Clean Up tool in the Photos app, you can easily remove unwanted distractions in your photos. Apple Intelligence identifies background objects so you can delete them with a tap for the perfect shot — while staying true to the original image.
An Apple logo in the shape of a lock, the lock mechanism is in a locked position to highlight privacy protection

Apple Intelligence protects your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of iPad through on-device processing, so it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger Apple-designed server‑based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests while protecting your privacy.

iPadOS and apps. Get up to something wonderful.

iPadOS is designed to let you do all the things you love easily and powerfully from first touch to finishing touches. Use multiple apps at once, write in any text field and navigate quickly and efficiently using just your finger, Apple Pencil or the Magic Keyboard trackpad.

iPadOS and apps.
Get up
to something
wonderful.

Multiple screens with different apps being used, landscape orientation

Do it all.

All at once.

Stage Manager lets you multitask effortlessly by allowing you to overlap and resize windows to look the way you want, so you can easily navigate between them. You can also group apps for specific tasks or projects and arrange them in your ideal layout.

iPad Air showcasing how Stage Manager helps with multitasking

Built‑in apps for all the essentials.

iPad Air comes with powerful and capable apps designed to help you create, connect and get things done. Browse, edit and share your images and videos with Photos. Create dazzling presentations with Keynote and add style with Apple Pencil Pro, or magically solve complex equations in Maths Notes.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays Maths Notes
Photos app on iPad Air

Amazing apps for any ask.

Apps can transform iPad Air into almost anything you need it to be. And with over a million apps on the App Store designed just for iPad, you’ll find the right app for whatever you want to do.

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Apple Pencil Pro. Engineered for
limitless creativity.

Apple Pencil sets the standard for how drawing, painting, handwriting and note-taking should feel — intuitive, precise and magical. All with pixel‑perfect precision, low latency, tilt sensitivity and support for palm rejection. And Apple Pencil Pro adds even more capabilities to bring your ideas to life like never before.2

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Apple Pencil Pro. Engineered for limitless creativity.

Colourful abstract artwork

Intuitive

and precise creative control.

Squeeze.

Apple Pencil Pro can sense when you squeeze it and brings up a palette, so you can quickly switch tools, line weights and colours.

Barrel roll.

A gyroscope allows you to rotate Apple Pencil Pro for precise control of shaped pen and brush tools.

Haptic feedback.

A custom haptic engine delivers precise feedback that you can feel. When you squeeze or double-tap, you’ll feel a light pulse confirming the action.

Apple Pencil hover.

Preview exactly where your Apple Pencil will touch down on your display, and see a virtual shadow of your tool. So you can write, sketch and illustrate with even greater precision.

Double tap.

Quickly switch between tools, like a pen and eraser, with a double tap on Apple Pencil Pro.

Ready when
inspiration strikes.

Apple Pencil Pro pairs, charges and stores magnetically on the side of iPad Air. And if you lose or misplace it, you can easily locate your Apple Pencil Pro in the Find My app.

Handwritten notes and charts on an iPad Air, Apple Pencil Pro attached

iPad Air works with Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C).

Two great options for all kinds of creativity.

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Apple Pencil Pro

Apple Pencil
(USB-C)
Apple Pencil Pro, rounded end engraved Apple Pencil Pro, Apple Pencil USB-C, end cap engraved Apple Pencil.

Magic Keyboard. The keys to your best work.

iPad Air attached to Magic Keyboard for iPad Air and Apple Pencil Pro

Magic Keyboard is the perfect companion for iPad Air. It delivers an amazing typing experience and a trackpad for precision tasks in a sleek, portable design. The keyboard includes a 14‑key function row, a USB-C connector for pass‑through charging, and front and back protection for your iPad Air. The floating cantilever design smoothly adjusts to multiple viewing angles, and a large glass trackpad expands how you can work with iPadOS.2

Learn more about keyboards for iPad

Cameras. Capture your imagination. And everything else.

iPad Air, front exterior, user is on FaceTime and looking at Keynote in front of another iPad Air, back exterior

12MP Center Stage camera
for even better video calls

12MP Wide back camera
with Smart HDR images and 4K video

Advanced front and back cameras make it easy to shoot and edit incredible content in a snap. Copy text in photos or videos and translate languages using Live Text. And Centre Stage makes all your video calls more dynamic.

Cameras.
Capture your imagination. And everything else.

Close-up photograph of a woman surrounded by foliage

12MP Center Stage camera.
Stay front and centre.

Located on the long side of iPad Air, the 12MP Center Stage camera creates a perfect video calling experience — especially when iPad Air is attached to Magic Keyboard. And with Centre Stage, machine learning enables the camera to automatically adjust to keep you centred in the shot.

Advanced back camera.
Shoot for the stars.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, displaying a vibrant image being edited

The 12MP Wide back camera captures vivid photos and amazing 4K videos. And the large, high-resolution Liquid Retina display lets you retouch images, edit your film and easily share them — all on iPad Air. You can also use the back camera to scan documents and then fill them out with Apple Pencil. Machine learning enables features like Visual Look Up so you can identify objects in your photos and videos and learn more about them.

Built-in mics and speakers.
Sounds perfect.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays live audio transcriptions in the Notes app

Record and play back rich audio with dual mics and landscape stereo speakers. The two microphones work together to capture the audio from the camera being used, so there’s less distracting background noise.

Connectivity. Wait-less wireless.

Stay connected with blazing-fast Wi‑Fi. And with 5G connectivity capabilities on Wi-Fi + Cellular models, you have the option to add a flexible data plan whenever you need it to browse the web, play games, stream movies and more.5

Learn more about mobile data for iPad
Side view of three iPad Air models, a fourth iPad Air is showcasing Apple TV+ show Silo

Connectivity. Wait‑less wireless.

Downloaded movies and shows

Blazing-fast connections.

iPad Air, landscape orientation, screen displays video game Asphalt Legends Unite, PlayStation controller

  • Get incredibly fast Wi-Fi with iPad Air. So you can stream, download and share at high speeds.5

  • Choosing 5G connectivity capabilities gives you the ultimate flexibility so you can connect to the fastest wireless networks, even if it’s just for a day or while you’re on holiday.5

  • iPad Air uses eSIM, enabling a fast, convenient and secure way to activate your mobile data plan directly on your device.6

    Learn more about mobile data for iPad

  • Bluetooth 5.3 low-latency audio supports next-generation headsets and hearing aids that use Bluetooth LE.

Connect to displays, drives and devices with USB‑C.

USB-C gives you fast, easy connections to your go‑to accessories like external displays, docks, drives and cameras. Perfect for quick transfers of large photos and videos.2

iPad Air connected to an external hard drive

Designed to make
a difference.

What matters to you matters to Apple too. From using more recycled materials that minimise environmental impact. To privacy protections that give you more control over your data. To creating built-in features that make iPad accessible to all.

The new iPad Air has a durable design that uses 100 per cent recycled aluminium in the enclosure.

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Privacy is a fundamental human right. Which is why we design our products and services to protect it.

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The best technology works for everyone. That’s why our products and services are inclusive by design.

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