Apple still on track for iPad Pro revamp with OLED display in 2024

Apple may be planning a "major iPad Pro revamp," which could include a new OLED display — but it likely won't occur until 2024.

Apple's iPad Pro lineup was refreshed with Apple's M2 chip in October 2022, but the design has largely remained the same over the last several years.

In Sunday's edition of Power On, Mark Gurman suggests that 2023 will be a relatively uneventful year for iPad. As a result, if his report is accurate, there will be no significant upgrades to the iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini, or entry-level iPad.

However, Gurman believes that Apple may be planning a notable revamp for the iPad Pro that could happen in early 2024. He suspects the tablet will get an "updated design," and reiterates rumors that have been circulating for about 18 months about incorporation of an OLED display.

Gurman doesn't state exactly what the updated design might entail, though several analysts have suggested that the iPad Pro will get an OLED display, perhaps with dry etching, by 2024.

Some rumors claimed that the iPad Pro lineup would get microLED display technology by 2024, a report now suggests that the technology will first come to the Apple Watch Ultra in 2024. The rest of Apple's devices, including its iPhone, iPad, and Mac lineup, could get microLED starting in 2025.

8 Comments

tht 5594 comments · 23 Years

About 1 year ago

Come on Apple! I've been using an iPP10.5 for 5 years now. Software keyboard only. Make it 5:4 aspect ratio, 11.5 and 14.5 inch diagonal, with an optional flush back camera model. ;}

urahara 733 comments · 13 Years

tht said:

Come on Apple! I've been using an iPP10.5 for 5 years now. Software keyboard only. Make it 5:4 aspect ratio, 11.5 and 14.5 inch diagonal, with an optional flush back camera model. ;}

Why do you need both 11,5 and 14,5?
And how 5:4 is better than 4:3?

Skeptical 183 comments · 8 Years

I bet Apple is on track to on track for other future devices.

urahara said:

tht said:

Come on Apple! I've been using an iPP10.5 for 5 years now. Software keyboard only. Make it 5:4 aspect ratio, 11.5 and 14.5 inch diagonal, with an optional flush back camera model. ;}

Why do you need both 11,5 and 14,5?
And how 5:4 is better than 4:3?

I think 5:4 will be better in both landscape and portrait orientations while providing more vertical screen space for apps while the software keyboard is out. I think portrait orientation is too tall with 4:3.

11.5 and 14.5 inch versions because I'd like to have the option of a more portable version and a desktop version, as part of an "iPad Pro" lineup. Basically the same reasons why Apple has 11 and 12.9 inch versions. 11.5, well 11.53 inch, and 14.5 inch specifically because that will give you 12 and 15 keys at the typical 0.75" spacing in landscape. And, with the 14.5 in portrait orientation, the software keyboard can have 12 keys, which means you can just have the same size keyboard as a "11.5" in landscape in the portrait orientation of the 14.5. With typical key spacing seen on external keyboards, it makes typing on the software keyboard nice and easy.

Apple has a lot places they can go with the iPad lineup. They are typically quite conservative in what product to bring to market and just doesn't like to do any unusual products. Like a 2.4:1 aspect ration 8" iPad. Movie theater aspect ratio. The width will be small enough to comfortably thumb type, and put in pockets. It can function as an iPod Touch Max.

This wishful thinking for a 11.5 and 14.5 5:4 is also about keeping the iPad Pro as a primarily touch device by making the software keyboard a better experience. The current trend with the Magic Keyboard case is driving more landscape usage of iPad Pros, and therefore is driving it to have wider aspect ratios, and driving more reliance on the MK as an input. It's great and should be supported, but iPads should be touch first.

charlesn 1154 comments · 11 Years

A revamp with OLED? Wait, what? All of the display coverage lately has been about the eventual move, when prices come down, from OLED to mini-LED in computer applications because of several advantages. But the iPad 12.9 inch already has a mini-LED display... so we're gonna go backwards and replace it with OLED? This makes no sense.