A well-known Apple insider claims the 2021 iPad mini is on track for a fall release, teasing a radical new design and performance upgrades.
Following up on his earlier claims, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in a newsletter this weekend that the iPad mini is due for a redesign this year. Previous reports, including Gurman’s, said that Apple was planning a radical design update for its smallest tablet. The well-connected Apple insider offered more tidbits about the 2021 iPad mini refresh on Sunday. Apple’s 7.9-inch iPad mini was last updated in 2018. But that was a much-needed hardware upgrade that brought the A12 Bionic chip and Apple Pencil support to the most portable iPad. The iPad mini design stayed the same. Since then, Apple released more exciting iPad Air and iPad Pro updates without addressing the iPad mini.2021 might be the year when that changes. Maybe the most exciting iPad in recent years concerns last year’s iPad Air.
