The iPad 10.9 (2022) is without doubt one of the greatest tablets you should buy, whether or not you’re trying particularly at iPads or open to any choice in the marketplace. This is perhaps a primary mannequin from Apple, but its specs and options really feel something however rudimentary. It’s not excellent, nonetheless, leaving loads of room for the brand new iPad 2023 to enhance upon it.

That’s anticipated to be the successor to the iPad 10.9 (2022), and based mostly on our expertise with Apple’s present mannequin, we’ve give you an inventory of issues we wish from this subsequent baseline pill.

We’ll even be filling out this text with information and leaks, simply as quickly as any begin rising – already although, you’ll discover some educated guesses on the discharge date and sure different particulars of the brand new iPad 2023.

Reduce to the chase

• What’s it? The following entry-level iPad
• When it it out? In all probability September or October 2023
• How a lot will it price? Probably round $449 / £499 / AU$749

New iPad 2023 launch date and value

Whereas there’s no information but on when the iPad 2023 would possibly launch, we are able to take a very good guess, as lately, Apple has introduced new entries on this line in both September or October.

The truth is, aside from the most recent mannequin, it’s finished so in September. So, September 2023 is our greatest guess for the launch of the brand new iPad 2023 – most likely alongside the iPhone 15. Nonetheless, there’s a good probability we’ll as a substitute see it in October 2023; one or different of these months appears very doubtless, regardless.

We don’t know what the iPad 2023 will price, however it might have an identical beginning value to the iPad 10.9 (2022), which begins at $449 / £499 / AU$749. Then once more, that pill price greater than its predecessor, so it’s doable Apple will push the value up once more.

New iPad 2023 information and leaks

There aren’t any leaks in regards to the iPad 2023 but, however we are able to guess some issues. For one, provided that Apple upped the display screen measurement and adjusted the design for the iPad 10.9 (2022), we’d anticipate each of these issues to remain the identical for the subsequent mannequin; which means a 10.9-inch display screen and an iPad Air-like design each being doubtless.

Nonetheless, it should virtually actually have a brand new chipset. Or at the least a more recent one – the present iPad makes use of Apple’s current A14 Bionic, additionally seen within the iPhone 12 line and the 2020 fourth-generation iPad Air, so the subsequent mannequin will doubtless get an improve to, at the least, the A15 Bionic discovered within the iPhone 13.

What we need to see

Nearly as good because the iPad 10.9 (2022) is, it may all the time be higher, so we hope the brand new iPad 2023 consists of among the following adjustments and upgrades.

1. Apple Pencil 2 help

One of many extra uncommon features of the iPad 10.9 (2022) is that it helps the unique Apple Pencil relatively than the newer Apple Pencil 2. That’s regardless of switching to a USB-C port, which implies you may’t even cost the Apple Pencil (which costs by way of Lightning) with out an adapter.

There are causes for this determination, nevertheless it looks as if a mistake general, and one we hope Apple will repair for the subsequent mannequin.

2. A cheaper price, or at the least no value rises

Apple pushed the value up considerably for the iPad 10.9 (2022), in comparison with its predecessor, so for the subsequent mannequin we’d ideally wish to see the value fall, provided that that is the corporate’s least expensive line of tablets. On the very least, although, we don’t need it to rise any larger.

3. A much less reflective display screen

Whereas we have been largely pleased with the iPad 10.9 (2022)’s display screen, one problem we present in our evaluation was that the shortage of an anti-reflective coating meant there might be numerous reflections in it, significantly when used outdoors.

We don’t anticipate Apple to modify to a mini-LED or OLED display screen, or pack in additional pixels for the brand new iPad 2023, however we’d like to at the least be capable of comfortably use it outdoor, so hopefully this mannequin can have that coating.

4. Extra digicam modes

Cameras are hardly ever a precedence for tablets, and such is the case with the iPad 10.9 (2022). We’re largely tremendous with that, however the absence of each Portrait mode and Cinematic mode are noticeable and disappointing, so we’d wish to see them included for the brand new iPad 2023.

5. Improved battery life

The iPad 10.9 (2022) truly has fairly cheap battery life, with our reviewer managing round 8-10 hours of fixed use. That’s in the identical ballpark as most different iPads, however when you think about that the MacBook Air (M2, 2022) lasted over 16 hours in our assessments, we predict Apple can do higher, given {that a} pill isn’t 1,000,000 miles from a laptop computer.

Even an additional couple of hours would make all of the distinction, so we hope that’s a spotlight for Apple with the subsequent mannequin, because it may assist make sure the iPad 2023’s place among the many greatest iPads.