If you’ve used an iPad mini before, you know what you’re getting: a reliable, powerful, and eminently mobile device with a large display you can slip inside an inner coat pocket and use just about anywhere,

Apple refreshed most of its tablets in 2024. In 2025, the iPad 11 might become the company's best tablet thanks to this upgrade.

The Mini's less-powerful, year-old phone processor holds it back. In Geekbench 6 tests, the Mini's single-core speed seemed to handle as well as other M1 and M2 iPads, but in multicore modes, it was worse than a last-gen M1-equipped iPad Air.

The iPad Mini 7 gives our favorite small tablet even better performance, improved stylus support and Apple Intelligence smarts, though it’s otherwise the same slate that launched back in 2021.

The most important thing about the new iPad mini is that, on the one hand, it’s a pretty minimal update. It got a better processor—the A17 Pro from last year’s Pro iPhones—and Apple supposedly fixed a display refresh problem that previously caused what is known as jellyscrolling,

The iPad mini (2024) is set to launch this week. The first reviews for the newest iPad are being published. There's a lot of good — and some bad.

Earlier this month, Apple announced a new iPad mini for the first time in three years. Ahead of the device launching this Wednesday, we have