M4 - Power up, up, up
The lightning‑fast M4 chip with 50 per cent more unified system memory elevates performance for all the things you love to do on iPad Air. It’s an AI powerhouse, enabling the AI features and capabilities you use every day to get things done faster, effortlessly. And the GPU architecture delivers even more fluid advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.
All kinds of powerful
The M4 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 3 performance cores and 5 efficiency cores that power all types of creative tasks, like blazing‑fast photo compositing in Photoshop. And its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 60% faster graphics performance than M1 for fast, fluid 3D CAD or video editing. And with 12GB of on‑device unified system memory, it delivers faster load times, smooth multitasking and amazingly responsive gaming. M4 also enables hardware-accelerated ray tracing, so light, shadows and reflections in apps and games look incredibly vibrant and realistic.
Advanced Neural Engine for advanced AI apps
The 16‑core Neural Engine in M4 makes iPad Air an even more powerful device for AI. More unified system memory and higher memory bandwidth speed up everyday AI tasks like searching for text in Goodnotes. The Neural Engine also enables powerful AI features in photo and video editing apps, giving you greater control and helping you bring your creative vision to life effortlessly.
- 3x faster Neural Engine performance than M1
- Up to 2.3x faster than iPad Air with M1
- Over 4x faster 3D pro rendering with ray tracing than iPad Air with M1
iPadOS and apps - Fly through it all
iPadOS 26 introduces Liquid Glass, a stunning new design with a vibrant look and game-changing enhancements that put iPad Air productivity on a new level. A reimagined, intuitive windowing system gives you greater power and flexibility than ever before. Run pro apps, play high-performance games and take on creative projects of any size with a natural, touch‑first experience.
Flex your workflow
iPad Air comes with powerful and capable apps designed to help you create, connect and get things done. Browse, edit and share your images and videos with Photos. And solve complex equations in Maths Notes.
Amazing apps for any ask
Apps can transform iPad Air into almost anything you need it to be. And with over a million apps on the App Store designed just for iPad, you’ll find the right app for whatever you want to do.
Apple Intelligence - Effortlessly helpful every day
iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps you create, communicate and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data - not even Apple.
Apple Intelligence enables delightful ways to express yourself visually. Turn a rough sketch into a related image with Image Wand. And create new images based on descriptions, suggested concepts, and even a person from your Photos library with Image Playground.
Writing Tools help you find just the right words and transform the way you communicate. Proofread your text, rewrite different versions to get the right tone and summarise selected text with a tap.
With the Clean Up tool in the Photos app, you can easily remove unwanted distractions in your photos. Apple Intelligence identifies background objects so you can delete them with a tap for the perfect shot - while staying true to the original image.
Apple Intelligence protects your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of iPad through on-device processing, so it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger, Apple-designed server‑based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests while protecting your privacy.
Infinite possibilities
You can choose the 11‑inch iPad Air, featuring a gorgeous, high-resolution Liquid Retina display that brings everything you do to life. This display delivers a brilliant, responsive, and color-accurate viewing experience.
- True Tone for comfortable viewing
- P3 wide colour
- Full lamination for reduced reflectivity
Connectivity - Far and away faster
Your games, streaming content and workflows go wherever you do with the better performance and reliability of Wi‑Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread - all enabled by N1, our new wireless networking chip. And you can easily connect to external displays, drives and devices with USB‑C.
Apple Pencil Pro - Engineered for limitless creativity
Apple Pencil sets the standard for how drawing, painting, handwriting and note-taking should feel - intuitive, precise and magical. All with pixel‑perfect precision, low latency, tilt sensitivity and support for palm rejection. And Apple Pencil Pro adds even more capabilities to bring your ideas to life like never before.
Intuitive and precise creative control
- Squeeze: Apple Pencil Pro can sense when you squeeze it and brings up a palette, so you can quickly switch tools, line weights and colours
- Barrel roll: A gyroscope allows you to rotate Apple Pencil Pro for precise control of shaped pen and brush tools
- Haptic feedback: A custom haptic engine delivers precise feedback you can feel. When you squeeze or double‑tap, you’ll feel a light pulse confirming the action
- Apple Pencil hover: Preview exactly where your Apple Pencil will touch down on your display, and see a virtual shadow of your tool. So you can write, sketch and illustrate with even greater precision
- Double tap: Quickly switch between tools, like a pen and eraser, with a double tap on Apple Pencil Pro
Ready when inspiration strikes
Apple Pencil Pro pairs, charges and stores magnetically on the side of iPad Air. And if you lose or misplace it, you can easily locate your Apple Pencil Pro in the Find My app.
Magic Keyboard - The keys to your best work
Magic Keyboard - available in black or white - is the perfect companion for iPad Air. It delivers an amazing typing experience and a trackpad for precision tasks in a sleek, portable design. The keyboard includes a 14‑key function row, a USB‑C connector for pass‑through charging, and front and back protection for your iPad Air. The floating cantilever design smoothly adjusts to multiple viewing angles, and a large glass trackpad expands how you can work with iPadOS.
Cameras - Capture your imagination. And everything else
Advanced front and back cameras make it easy to shoot and edit incredible content in a snap. Capture audio using the built‑in dual mics and play back the rich sound using landscape stereo speakers. And experience more dynamic video calls with Centre Stage.
12MP Center Stage front camera - Stay front and centre
Located on the long side of iPad Air, the 12MP Centre Stage camera creates a great video calling experience - especially when iPad Air is attached to Magic Keyboard. And with Centre Stage, machine learning enables the camera to automatically adjust to keep you centred in the shot.
Advanced back camera - Shoot for the stars
The 12MP Wide back camera captures vivid photos and amazing 4K videos. And the large, high-resolution Liquid Retina display lets you retouch images and edit your film, then easily share them - all on iPad Air. You can also use the back camera to scan documents and then fill them in with Apple Pencil.
Key Features:
Display
- LED backlit Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology
- 2360 x 1640-pixel resolution at 264 ppi
- Wide colour (P3)
- True Tone
- Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
- Fully laminated
- Anti-reflective coating
- 500 nits brightness
- Supports Apple Pencil Pro
- Supports Apple Pencil (USB‑C)
- Apple Pencil hover
Chip
- 8-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 5 efficiency cores
- 9-core GPU
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
- 16‑core Neural Engine
- 120GB/s memory bandwidth
Media Engine
- Hardware-accelerated 8K H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW
- Video decode engine
- Video encode engine
- ProRes encode and decode engine
- AV1 decode
Camera
- 12MP Wide camera, ƒ/1.8 aperture
- Digital zoom up to 5x
- Five-element lens
- Panorama (up to 63MP)
- Sapphire crystal lens cover
- Autofocus with Focus Pixels
- Smart HDR 4
- Wide colour capture for photos and Live Photos
- Photo geotagging
- Auto image stabilisation
- Burst mode
- Image formats captured: HEIF and JPEG
Video Recording
- 4K video recording at 24 fps, 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps
- 1080p HD video recording at 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps
- 720p HD video recording at 30 fps
- Slo‑mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps or 240 fps
- Time-lapse video with stabilisation
- Extended dynamic range for video up to 30 fps
- Cinematic video stabilisation (4K, 1080p and 720p)
- Continuous autofocus video
- Playback zoom
- Video formats captured: HEVC and H.264
Front Camera
- Landscape 12MP Center Stage camera
- ƒ/2.0 aperture
- Smart HDR 4
- 1080p HD video recording at 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps
- Time-lapse video with stabilisation
- Extended dynamic range for video up to 30 fps
- Cinematic video stabilisation (1080p and 720p)
- Wide colour capture for Photos and Live Photos
- Lens correction
- Retina Flash with True Tone
- Auto image stabilisation
- Burst mode
Video Calling
- FaceTime video
- Centre Stage
- iPad to any FaceTime‑enabled device over Wi‑Fi or a mobile network
- Share experiences like movies, TV, music and other apps in a FaceTime call with SharePlay
- Screen sharing
- Portrait mode in FaceTime video
- Spatial Audio
- Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum microphone modes
Audio Calling
- FaceTime audio
- Relay calls from your nearby iPhone with the Phone app
Mobile and Wireless
- Apple N1 wireless networking chip
- Wi‑Fi 7 (802.11be) with 2x2 MIMO5
- Simultaneous dual band
- Bluetooth 6
- Thread networking technology
Siri
- Get help with everyday tasks like sending messages, setting reminders and more
- Activate hands-free with only your voice using “Hey Siri”, or use Type to Siri
- Protected by the strongest privacy of any intelligent assistant
- Powered by Apple Intelligence, Siri is more natural and helpful
Display Support
- Supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colours: Supports one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz
- Digital video output: Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C; VGA, HDMI and DVI output supported using adapters (sold separately)
- Video mirroring: Up to 4K AirPlay for mirroring, photos and video out to Apple TV (2nd generation or later) or AirPlay‑enabled smart TV
- Video mirroring and video out support through USB‑C Digital AV Multiport Adapter and USB‑C VGA Multiport Adapter (adapters sold separately)
Accessibility
- Built-in accessibility features supporting vision, mobility, hearing and cognitive disabilities help you get the most out of your iPad
- VoiceOver
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Spoken Content
- Switch Control
- AssistiveTouch
- Siri and Dictation
- Type to Siri
- Real-Time Text
- Audio Descriptions
- Subtitles and Closed Captioning
Box Contains:
- 11-inch iPad Air
- USB-C Charge Cable
