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iPad Mini 6 Hits New All-Time Low Price of $375 on Amazon

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Apple's 64GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 6 has dropped to a new all-time low price today on Amazon, available for $375.00 in Starlight, down from $499.00. Amazon provides an estimated delivery date between this Wednesday, April 3 and Saturday, April 6 if you order today.

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This is now the best price we've ever tracked on the iPad mini 6, and it beats the previous low tracked over the holidays by about $5. Right now, only Amazon has the Starlight color at this price, but you can get the three other colors for $99 off with an on-page coupon.



Apple's iPad mini 6 was introduced in late 2021, so it's reaching the end of its lifecycle at this point. This is likely why we'll start seeing steeper deals on the miniature tablet, which includes the A15 Bionic chip, a USB-C port, and Apple Pencil 2 support.

If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week.

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HobeSoundDarryl said:
IMO: the BEST iPad... notch-less, USB-C while most were still trying to spin Lightning > USB-C, Goldilocks "just right" size & weight, cellular version with VOIP app + buds makes it a terrific alt for iPhone, etc. I use mine every day.
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I like the files app used with a dongle for mouse, sd cards, ethernet, hdmi. Awesome little device.
 
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I'd consider getting this to hold me over until the Mini 7 comes out but I'm not sure on the storage. I've always been in kind of a fog about storage between a device and the cloud. I've used 100GB on my phone and I have the 200GB cloud subscription. Is there a way to make the 64GB Mini work for me in the short (Ihope) term?
 
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I have 5 & 6 already, and will pass next gen to buy an Air instead whenever that will be.
Love the Mini though ♥️
 
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Jdhommert said:
This 100% means we are getting a new iPad mini ASAP and it’s going to be the most amazing thing ever, right?

RIGHT?
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I hope so...

But please with proper support for external screens this time. At the end of the day it's the smalles device where you need support for an external screen the most...

Nevertheless, other than a few minor spec bumps I have my doubts that there will be any major upgrade to the mini... maybe not even enough for an official release, so they go with a silent launch...
 
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KFridman said:
I'd consider getting this to hold me over until the Mini 7 comes out but I'm not sure on the storage. I've always been in kind of a fog about storage between a device and the cloud. I've used 100GB on my phone and I have the 200GB cloud subscription. Is there a way to make the 64GB Mini work for me in the short (Ihope) term?
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Reduce the 100GB to about 48GB by shifting an additional 52GB to the cloud?

OPTION 2: USB-C port works with external drives. Get a small, fat-storage drive and carry your own bigger "cloud" with you. With m.2 sticks dirt cheap when not made by Apple, you could go from 300GB total storage need to having 2TB (example) for much less than $150 or 4TB (example)... but you would be carrying one more thing around. Since your needs are only (currently) 300GB, maybe just a simple USB stick might suffice (example)? The bonus in any of these options is killing the forever rent of cloud space but ending up with even more storage.

OPTION 3: Sync much of that content to a Mac and then selectively choose what you want to sync back to iDevices. Often big storage like that is full of a bunch of photos and videos user rarely actually looks at/watches. So sync to store them on a Mac, make a photo album or 2+ of favorites you DO want with you and then sync only those albums back to the iDevice.

Same with music & video too: instead of one's entire library, make favorites playlist(s) and sync only the playlists, etc.
 
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HobeSoundDarryl said:
Reduce the 100GB to about 48GB by shifting and additional 52GB to the cloud?

OPTION 2: USB-C port works with external drives. Get a small, fat-storage drive and carry your own bigger "cloud" with you. With m.2 sticks dirt cheap when not made by Apple, you could go from 300GB total storage need to having 2TB (example) for much less than $150 or 4TB (example)... but you would be carrying one more thing around. Since your needs are only (currently) 300GB, maybe just a simple USB stick might suffice (example)? The bonus in any of these options is killing the forever rent of cloud space but ending up with even more storage.

OPTION 3: Sync much of that content to a Mac and then selectively choose what you want to sync back to iDevices. Often big storage like that is full of a bunch of photos and videos user rarely actually looks at/watches. So sync to store them on a Mac, make a photo album or 2+ of favorites you DO want with you and then sync only those albums back to the iDevice.

Same with music & video too: instead of one's entire library, make favorites playlist(s) and sync only the playlists, etc.
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Here’s the problem- in my experience Apple can be awful about iCloud things. For some reason, my iPad will randomly decide I need 20-50gb worth of messages and photos on my iPad Mini 64gb even though I barely ever use those apps on that device.

Twice now I’ve had this happen-iPad is getting full of messages/photos. Then it downloaded an update. To full to install it. Can’t force it to offload any of the stuff to iCloud no matter what I do. Device runs like trash because it’s so full. So twice now I’ve had to wipe the entire iPad and set up as new.

I also had a similar issue on my Mac Mini where it was keeping a ton of photos and messages even though since I bought it as new I NEVER SIGNED IN TO MESSAGES OR OPENED THE MESSAGES OR PHOTOS APP it thought I needed several GB of each. Thankfully I was eventually able to work around it and figure that out on the Mac Mini without resetting it.
 
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HobeSoundDarryl said:
Reduce the 100GB to about 48GB by shifting and additional 52GB to the cloud?

OPTION 2: USB-C port works with external drives. Get a small, fat-storage drive and carry your own bigger "cloud" with you. With m.2 sticks dirt cheap when not made by Apple, you could go from 300GB total storage need to having 2TB (example) for much less than $150 or 4TB (example)... but you would be carrying one more thing around. Since your needs are only (currently) 300GB, maybe just a simple USB stick might suffice (example)? The bonus in any of these options is killing the forever rent of cloud space but ending up with even more storage.

OPTION 3: Sync much of that content to a Mac and then selectively choose what you want to sync back to iDevices. Often big storage like that is full of a bunch of photos and videos user rarely actually looks at/watches. So sync to store them on a Mac, make a photo album or 2+ of favorites you DO want with you and then sync only those albums back to the iDevice.

Same with music & video too: instead of one's entire library, make favorites playlist(s) and sync only the playlists, etc.
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Since you know so much about externals @ IPad... Could i play Videos - mkv for example - on VLC with a external drive?
 
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Jdhommert said:
Here’s the problem- in my experience Apple can be awful about iCloud things. For some reason, my iPad will randomly decide I need 20-50gb worth of messages and photos on my iPad Mini 64gb even though I barely ever use those apps on that device.

Twice now I’ve had this happen-iPad is getting full of messages/photos. Then it downloaded an update. To full to install it. Can’t force it to offload any of the stuff to iCloud no matter what I do. Device runs like trash because it’s so full. So twice now I’ve had to wipe the entire iPad and set up as new.

I also had a similar issue on my Mac Mini where it was keeping a ton of photos and messages even though since I bought it as new I NEVER SIGNED IN TO MESSAGES OR OPENED THE MESSAGES OR PHOTOS APP it thought I needed several GB of each. Thankfully I was eventually able to work around it and figure that out on the Mac Mini without resetting it.
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I'm quite anti-cloud (not just iCloud, but all of them). I see it as monetizing something readily available to all of us for dirt cheap: big storage. Cloud delivers some convenience over physical storage but I'd rather 100% control my own data than trusting for-profit strangers at some distant location.

To resolve issues like yours requires digging in and figuring out how iCloud works. Then, after each update, checking iCloud settings to be sure Apple hasn't turned things back on that you want off. AAPL is motivated to get people "addicted" to iCloud. So "accidentally" re-activating iCloud features in updates can result in people "just paying" up in that forever services rent.

The remedy is figuring out how iCloud works and then policing your hardware after updates. But here's a few tips specifically for you:
  • When a texting session is done, close (delete) the conversation. Too many leave text messaging conversations open forever to just pick up where they left off. That will eat up a lot of storage in iCloud. If you kill the text history when today's conversation is done and then start a new message each time (or the other person starts a new one with you), you'll find- as I do- that Messages never hogs much storage. Metaphorically, treat texting more like phone calls than an endless history of all interactions we've ever had with our friends. A phone call has a start, conversation and a tangible end. A text conversation can have a start, conversation and an end too.
  • Photos should be synched to Mac, 49 of the 50 selfies trying to get the perfect one should be jettisoned so that you keep only the perfect one, 4X of the 50 pics taken of the "must capture a great pic of this" should be jettisoned to keep only the one or few best ones, etc.
  • Make Photo albums of the photos you want on the device at all times and sync them back to the iDevice so you always have the subset of the entire library on your iDevice. Then, instead of carrying around XXK of photos, you are carrying only the very best ones that matter most to you. Just about nobody needs every photo they've ever taken always with them at all times.
I run a busy business with my Apple stuff but use only the free 5GB of iCloud, generally with about 3.5GB of that always free. How? By tips like those just shared. At times my messages window has ZERO texting conversations showing... and rarely will have more than about 12 open at the same time. My many thousands of "best" photos are in my Mac Photos library with only a handful of "best of" albums synched back to my iDevice. 16K+ songs in my Music library ends up as only a few thousand in about a dozen "best of" playlists synched to my iDevice. Etc.

The key to success here is do it as we all did it BEFORE iCloud: regularly sync content on iDevice to Mac... manage the content on Mac... then sync only subsets of "all" to iDevices manually. I generally have iCloud turned off for most of the big data hogs.

But what if one travels and is worried about losing that trip's photos/videos before they can get back to the main Mac. MB is a good option to also take with you and offload new photos/videos to it each evening.

Else, perhaps some circumstances do call for some extra cloud usage. If so, use it while you need it and then cancel it when you don't. For example, in an extended trip with lots of photos & videos to secure but no MB, maybe you pay up for some cloud storage during that time, backup to that cloud until you get back to the office, import the trip's new media and then cancel the cloud rent again. In other words, cloud is often treated like lifetime lease instead of temporary rent. Think motel instead of long-term home (for your data) if you want/need to use some cloud.
 
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HobeSoundDarryl said:
Reduce the 100GB to about 48GB by shifting and additional 52GB to the cloud?

OPTION 2: USB-C port works with external drives. Get a small, fat-storage drive and carry your own bigger "cloud" with you. With m.2 sticks dirt cheap when not made by Apple, you could go from 300GB total storage need to having 2TB (example) for much less than $150 or 4TB (example)... but you would be carrying one more thing around. Since your needs are only (currently) 300GB, maybe just a simple USB stick might suffice (example)? The bonus in any of these options is killing the forever rent of cloud space but ending up with even more storage.

OPTION 3: Sync much of that content to a Mac and then selectively choose what you want to sync back to iDevices. Often big storage like that is full of a bunch of photos and videos user rarely actually looks at/watches. So sync to store them on a Mac, make a photo album or 2+ of favorites you DO want with you and then sync only those albums back to the iDevice.

Same with music & video too: instead of one's entire library, make favorites playlist(s) and sync only the playlists, etc.
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Thanks for that. As I mentioned I'm foggy on cloud use. And I haven't found directions on using it that make sense to me. I've seen options to offload data but don't know what will happen to my music or photos if I do that. I'll keep digging. If I figure this out before they sell out I may pick up that Mini 6.
 
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Why is the iPad mini more expensive than the regular iPad? Newer technology?:rolleyes:
 
Yes, Apple doesn't want you do it. There's much forever revenue in "services." But if you do the reading and figure it out, you can discover that you don't need to forever pay without really losing much benefit. Again, I get by just fine with free iCloud and Dropbox, etc storage. My fairly great amount of media that would be typically hogging up big space in various "clouds" for others is gathered together on my Mac, backed up to a few drives with the free Time Machine with one of those drives always stored offsite to protect against fire/flood/theft scenarios.

Albums, playlists, etc of select media are then synched to a connected iDevice to have select photos, music, videos, etc on the iDevice. For my Mini 6, I chose the 256GB option to be sure I had plenty of internal space to grow my synch needs over time. As of right now, it's a little over 50% full, mostly because I just synched about 20 movies onto it for an upcoming trip.

If someone does need enormous cloud storage access, my advice would be to buy their own cloud in a box from someone like Synology or similar. Pay no forever rent and have all the cloud storage you can want... and then use the other benefits of devices like that for all kinds of additional purposes.
 
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People saying nobody should buy these at this point only speak for a subset of customers. The ipad mini 6 is a great tablet, and will have 5 years of support at least at the point it is superceded by new ipad mini.

If i need a washing machine, i go buy a washing machine… i dont wait until a new model comes out 😂
 
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Why is the iPad mini more expensive than the regular iPad? Newer technology?:rolleyes:
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It is a more premium device… better tech.

But their lineup doesnt make sense on multiple levels.

The current ipad mini is more of a mini air, than a regular ipad. And still damn powerful for a small tablet.
 
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