Report: iPad Air to Gain OLED Display Next Year

Apple volition bring OLED displays to its iPad Air models adjacent year, according to a caller study from Korea's ET News.


Citing manufacture sources, the outlet says Samsung Display volition statesman wide accumulation of OLED panels astir the extremity of 2026 oregon January adjacent year, with a presumption to supplying panels for Apple's adjacent iPad Air, expected to beryllium released successful aboriginal 2027. Apple past updated the iPad Air successful March 2026 with an M4 chip.

Apple's iPad Pro models already person OLED displays, but the iPad Air models inactive usage much affordable LCD displays that Apple calls Liquid Retina. The Liquid Retina displays bash not enactment 120Hz ProMotion show technology, and are constricted to 60Hz refresh rates.

OLED panels individually power each pixel, resulting successful much precise colour reproduction and deeper blacks compared to LCD. They besides supply superior contrast, faster effect times, amended viewing angles, and greater plan flexibility.

That said, dissimilar Apple's ‌iPad Pro‌ models, which diagnostic two-stack low-temperature polycrystalline oxide (LTPO) OLED panels‌, the iPad Air‌ is expected to usage single-stack low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) panels, meaning that they whitethorn beryllium dimmer and proceed to deficiency ProMotion.

Apple's program to modulation the ‌‌iPad mini‌‌ from an LCD to an OLED show is already widely rumored, with reports suggesting the iPad mini 8 volition follow OLED aboriginal this year, albeit utilizing the aforesaid cheaper single-stack LTPS panel.

Once the iPad mini and iPad Air person the show upgrade, the entry-level iPad volition beryllium the lone exemplary successful Apple's tablet lineup without an OLED panel.
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