Apple Developing Redesigned 2018 iPad With Face ID, Slimmer Bezels and No Home Button

[smithy12]

Here we go again......Apple has run out of innovation , so just produce a bigger version of the latest product . Apple has definelty lost there way after Steve”s passing

 

[twocents]

Sounds like the iPad I was hoping for! Engineering aside, if they could add 3D Touch beyond the iOS 11 “presses” then it’d be perfect

 

[scrapesleon]

they better fix Face ID working in landscape mode

exactly would love to see how that works on an iPad

 

[chfilm]

That would be Sooooooo sweet- the iPad X hooray! And please bring on the inductive charging Apple Pencil released alongside the charging matte!

 

[44267547]

Why would anyone buy an iPad anymore - so lame

Oh I don't know, only because it's the best manufactured tablet on the market that does everything my laptop can do and more. It's the best device I own in my household.

 

[DotCom2]

I'm wondering what can they do to the Pencil?

 

[tooloud10]

Why would anyone buy an iPad anymore - so lame

What's changed that would render iPads as 'lame' if they weren't before?

FWIW I use mine every day and eagerly await the 2018 model.

 

[DNichter]

Can't wait, this is exactly what I want for the iPad in 2018. Looking forward to the redesign and no home button.

 

[lmcrael]

Got my 10.5 iPad Pro on launch day. If this is true, i would happily upgrade again next year!

 

[efktd]

FaceID needs a wider angle recognition process... not sure if this is possible, but I feel like I have to be looking at my phone within a certain range for it to recognize my face. I'm not an angle expert, but I don't want to have to sit up strait at my desk just so my phone can unlock

 

[scrapesleon]

HIGH END meaning only iPad Pro models will be getting Face ID feature

 

[macTW]

So excited... as long as there’s some semblance of a bezel so I don’t hold the screen and interrupt processes.

 

[b11051973]

NO!!!

I just bought a 10.5" iPad Pro, and I love Face ID. I've been thinking lately how much I wished my iPad had Face ID and no home button. Pressing that home button is so out dated. 🙂

 

[DotCom2]

Why would anyone buy an iPad anymore - so lame

Oh I dunno. Maybe you can ask the millions and millions of people who own/want one?

 

[SamRyouji]

Here we go again......Apple has run out of innovation , so just produce a bigger version of the latest product . Apple has definelty lost there way after Steve”s passing

Not really. Remember when all tech journalists and Apple loyalists called the first iPad "just a bigger iPod touch"?

 

[techwhiz]

How much for that iPad?
There is nothing driving the iPad to reduce bezel size.
On a phone the trend was to reduce bezels for hand feel.
The cost of FaceID is many times that of TouchID and unless there is something driving getting rid of the button, I don't see it happening in the near future. They can barely make enough parts for the X.

 

[VforVelveta]

I'm all for this, but it poses an interesting question of how you go home with no home button. Can't use the swipe up gesture like the X since that invokes dock/app switcher, and the 4 finger pinch seems too undiscoverable for such an important function.

 

[cableguy84]

Ok I love my X, but an iPad shouldn't have a notch.

No device should have a notch

 

[ediks]

Makes sense , the ipads with ios 11 can be used without homebutton even now

 

[InuNacho]

A small bezel iPad? How are people supposed to hand hold it?

 

[Yourbigpalal83]

I don't mind Face ID, BUT AS LONG AS ITS NOT IN THAT GOD DAMMED NOTCH AT THE TOP, im all for it. Id also love 3D Touch finally!

 

[Jim Lahey]

I’m a 10.5” Pro owner. I’m so impressed with it that I cannot see me upgrading again before the iPad adopts OLED.

But never say never. If Apple makes something awesome, and I can afford it, I buy it.

Suck it, haters. Enjoy boasting about how poor you are 😉

 

[Black Magic]

Why would anyone buy an iPad anymore - so lame

iPads are still very useful. Large screen to look at news and other goodies while your phone charges and is ready to go when you need to leave. Larger battery and you can take calls as well.

The question really should be why are you not using your iPad more?

 

[TMRJIJ]

Here we go again......Apple has run out of innovation , so just produce a bigger version of the latest product . Apple has definelty lost there way after Steve”s passing

Remember when people said the original iPad was just a bigger iPod Touch

 

[kazmac]

And then make it even more expensive than the current gen. No thanks. I am good with my 12.9" iPP 2nd gen which will probably be the very last iPad I buy.