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The iPad Mini 2 (formerly marketed as the iPad mini with Retina display, [2] officially iPad mini 2 with Retina display [3]) is a tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a nearly identical design to its predecessor, the first-generation iPad Mini , but features internal revisions such as the use of an A7 system-on-a-chip and ...
Incredibly capable. Distinctly iPad. Support status; Obsolete, no longer receiving security updates, because all iPads that supported iPadOS 13 support iPadOS 14 and iPadOS 15 as well. Partial third-party app support. Drops support for all A7 chips, including the iPad Air (1st generation), and the iPad Mini 2 and 3. Articles in the series
The iPad Mini 3 was announced on October 16, 2014 and was released on October 22, 2014, alongside the iPad Air 2; it features the same external hardware as the Mini 2 and the addition of a Touch ID fingerprint sensor compatible with Apple Pay. [6]
iPadOS 18 [3] is the sixth and current major release of Apple's iPadOS operating system for the iPad.It was revealed at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). [4] It is the direct successor to iPadOS 17 and was announced alongside iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18.
Almost every Apple platform gets an upgrade – apart from the Mac, which has to wait
iPadOS 17 is the fifth major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers.The successor to iPadOS 16, it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5, 2023 and was released on September 18, 2023 along with iOS 17.
iPadOS 16 requires iPads with an A9 or A9X SoC or later, which means it drops support for the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 4, both with an A8 or A8X SoC. This also marks the second time Apple has dropped support for older 64-bit iPads. The iPad (5th generation) is the only supported iPad without Apple Pencil support.
iPadOS 13 is the first major release of iPadOS, an iPad-specific fork of iOS meant to emphasize the multitasking and tablet-centric features of the iPad. It was previewed at Apple's WWDC 2019, and released on September 24, 2019 as 13.1. iPadOS version 13.0 was never publicly released, though beta testing for iPadOS 13 started with 13.0.