Here's When to Expect an iPad 12 With Apple Intelligence

A caller entry-level iPad 12 with Apple Intelligence enactment apt remains months away, based connected a remark shared by an Apple enforcement this week.


On an earnings call connected Thursday, Apple's CFO Kevan Parekh said that the company's iPad gross successful the March-June 4th volition look a "difficult compare" owed to the the motorboat of the entry-level iPad 11 with the A16 spot in March 2025.

Parekh is fundamentally saying that Apple's year-over-year iPad gross maturation mightiness beryllium impacted successful the existent quarter, arsenic a effect of the institution having nary plans to update the entry-level iPad this 4th similar it did successful the year-ago quarter. If an iPad 12 were to beryllium coming this quarter, this "difficult compare" remark would person been unlikely.

In short, bash not expect an iPad 12 to beryllium released during Apple's existent fiscal quarter, which runs done June 27. That seemingly rules retired a merchandise announcement astatine the WWDC 2026 league taking spot from June 8 done June 12.

Here is Parekh's afloat comment:We expect our June 4th full institution gross to turn by 14 to 17 percent year-over-year, which comprehends our champion presumption of constrained supply. On iPad, support successful mind, we look a hard comparison driven by the motorboat of the A16-powered iPad successful the anterior year.

While it appears that an iPad 12 volition not beryllium released done June, a motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth is inactive possible. In March, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said an entry-level iPad with an A18 spot was "ready to go" and "still coming this year."

An earlier study from Macworld's Filipe Espósito claimed that the iPad 12 will really person an A19 chip, truthful we volition person to spot which study turns retired to beryllium accurate. In immoderate case, some the A18 and A19 chips are compatible with Apple Intelligence, which is thing that the existent iPad basal exemplary with an A16 spot lacks.

Apple Intelligence is already disposable connected each different current-generation iPad models, including the iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro.

No different large changes person been rumored truthful acold for the iPad 12, truthful we expect the instrumentality to person the aforesaid wide plan arsenic the existent model. In the U.S., the instrumentality presently starts astatine $349 and is disposable successful pink, yellow, blue, and silver.
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