The new tablet stats at $699.
Apple isn’t waiting for its “Pro and Tell” event to unveil new hardware. On Monday morning, the company announced the 2026 iPad mini. The new tablet has 8.5-inch OLED display, which Apple will allow customers to spec with its nano-texture coating. On paper, the new panel is a substantial upgrade. According to Apple, it’s capable of reaching a peak brightness of 1,200 nits, or twice as the previous iPad mini. It can also sustain 600 nits of full-screen brightness across both SDR and HDR content. Additionally, it offers a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Thanks 24 percent thinner bezels, the new screen is also slightly larger than the 8.3-inch display the iPad mini previously offered.
In addition to a new OLED panel, the 2026 iPad mini offers Apple’s first-ever “Acoustic Display.” The company has embedded a set of custom woofers “through the display,” which it says results in those components delivering “punchier” bass and more volume. Similarly, the tablet’s tweeters are now hidden between the glass of its touchscreen and aluminum enclosure, allowing them to produce clearer high-frequency sounds. Apple has also sealed the enclosure, which helps with weather-sealing. The new iPad mini is iP67-rated against water and dust. Like all of its siblings, the new mini now offers a landscape-oriented 12-megapixel Center Stage camera for more natural-looking video calls. On the back, you get a single 12MP camera with Smart HDR 4 support and 4K video capture at 60 frames per second.
Inside, the iPad mini has Apple’s latest A20 Pro system-on-a-chip, which debuted alongside the <a href="https://myappsplus.com/watch-the-iphone-duo-run-a-shortcuts-automation-when-it-is-opened-or-closed/” title=”Watch the iPhone Duo run a Shortcuts automation when it is opened or closed”>iPhone 18 Pro earlier this year.
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