The tenth generation of the iPad has – quietly – been sent out in Apple’s digital online store, and unsurprisingly, it receives the same design treatment as its more lavish sibling models, the iPad Air and Mini, received this year. It is therefore about aesthetic elements from the Ipad Pro side, where the home button at the bottom disappears in favor of an evenly thick, black frame that runs around the 10.9-inch screen, which thus increases the size by 0.7 inches. The IPS panel has a resolution of 2,360 × 1,640 pixels, a refresh rate of 60 Hz and a maximum brightness of 500 cd/m².

The updated iPad also ditches the Lightning connector and now connects with USB Type-C, an upgrade that is accompanied by an included 20-watt charger. One upgrade that is missing, however, is support for the second-generation Apple Pencil, which means that the side of the tablet lacks a magnetic and wireless charging slot for the writing device.

On the outside, the new iPad is very much a copy of the more expensive models, but underneath the shell, the M1 circuit is missing. There is the six-core Bionic A14 circuit that was introduced with the iPhone 12 family, a generation newer than the previous round of iPads. The latter lives on in Apple’s range with a price tag from SEK 4,995, as the newcomer raises the price to SEK 6,595. For those who wish to upgrade from 64 to 256 GB of storage, or have a built-in 5G modem, the price increases are SEK 2,200 each.

The new iPad will be available on October 26.