The next iPad mini will have an OLED display. Even though it took 3 years
After the surprise launch of the iPad mini 7 with the A17 Pro chip, Apple was clear that OLED would be the next evolution in this model, albeit in the very long term.
Ross Young, renowned display analyst and CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants, is very clear on this. What’s next for the eighth-generation iPad mini. Just last week, Apple launched the iPad mini 7 with the A17 Pro chip via a press release, but we were already clear on what the evolution of this range would be. OLED will come to Apple’s smallest iPad As expressed by Young himself in X.
Apple will drop the LCD panel in favor of an OLED panel, improving the quality of the iPad mini 8
A few generations later, the benefits of using OLED in iPhone and Apple Watch can be seen with the naked eye It has one panel with these features and one LCD panel. The results are better brightness, greater contrast with deeper blacks and better battery energy efficiency. While it is true that it is a technology that already exists and has been tested at Apple, it will not be that fast for it to arrive on the iPad in question.. This iPad had successive updates, some minor, between 2012 and 2015, and was recently updated only 3 times between 2019 and 2024.
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The iPad Pro M4 is the latest product in the catalog to be upgraded to OLED. The next step in the update roadmap will be the iPad Air, culminating in the iPad miniBut it’s also possible that the smaller model will surpass it, leaving the iPad Air in third place in terms of OLED upgrades.
OLED will come to more Apple products
In addition to iPad mini and iPad Air, The next product to get OLED will be the iPhone SE 4. The long-awaited entry-level iPhone would finally get a major redesign to match the latest iPhone series released by Apple.
Another product that will switch to OLED will be the MacBook Pro, but it is said that the change in this model will come until 2027. Coincidentally, this change will coincide with the next generation LTPO3 on the iPhone; previously reported here on iPadizate.
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Once OLED enters Mac territory, other products that will slowly get it will be the MacBook Air and iMac. albeit in later years. Once Apple gets on board with manufacturing and assembling the OLED iPad Pro, we’re sure it’ll only be a matter of time before we get reports that Cupertinos are preparing to do the same with the iPad Air, iPad mini, and MacBook Pro.
Likewise, Ross Young’s reports are often frank. He was the first to point out the size change on the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with 6.3 and 6.9 inches. He also addressed rumors about the new size of the 13-inch iPad Air, stating that it would have miniLED, but this did not happen. It will be interesting to see what Apple has in store for future releases next year Starting with the iPhone SE and ending with the new Macs.
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I’m Ben Stock, a highly experienced and passionate journalist with a career in the news industry spanning more than 10 years. I specialize in writing content for websites, including researching and interviewing sources to produce engaging articles. My current role is as an author at Gadget Onus, where I mainly cover the mobile section.
