Apple’s new-fangled iPad 2019 could maintain two adored features

Apple’s new-fangled iPad (2019) won’t follow the iPad Pro in dipping two of the tablet’s most admired features, a new report claims, with the iPad 7th generation said to stick fairly closely to the obtainable design. Apple left several tablet users frustrated with the two innovative iPad Pro models in 2018, after dropping Touch ID in favor of Face ID facial recognition.

Even more annoying, the iPad Pro (2018) also did away with the 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead, buyers would require using a Lightning to 3.5mm adapter if they had obtainable headphones they wanted to listen with.

That’s a strategy we’ve seen Apple – and indeed others in the smartphone industry – follow in recent years, but adopting it on the iPad Pro still came as impressive of a surprise. After all, the tablet has more chassis space, critics pointed out, which would debatably leave more room for an old-school jack. Of course, Apple would rather iPad Pro owners pick up a pair of AirPods, and go totally wireless.

Where that might leave the latest iPad (2019), then, has been a topic of some discussion. According to supply chain sources talking to Japanese rumor site Macotakara, however, the iPad 7th generation won’t go the similar way as the latest iPad Pro. In fact, both Touch ID and the 3.5mm headphone socket are tipped to remain.

If true, there are a few potential reasons why Apple might have made that conclusion. On the one hand there’s the cost benefit of not shifting away too far from the obtainable tablet’s industrial design. If Apple can reuse the equal design as the iPad 6th generation, that should make the tooling process less expensive.

There’s also debatably more room for push-back from budget users, too, who may be more averse to spend money upgrading their headphones to sustain either Lightning or Bluetooth. For Apple, too, Touch ID sensors are less luxurious than the complex TrueDepth camera array which Face ID relies upon. If the iPad 7th generation is to remain as reasonable as the current model – which starts at $329 – then the Cupertino company will require to balance its upgrades with relatively low-cost components.

Other specifications for the innovative iPad are unconfirmed. Differing reports have suggested that Apple may either stick with a 9.7-inch display, or otherwise switch to a 10-inch touchscreen – albeit in the equal form-factor, using narrower bezels to accommodate the slightly bigger panel.

At the same time, Apple could well release a innovative version of its smaller tablet, which has gone neglected for various time. The iPad mini 5 has not been established yet, but Apple may well decide to update it at the similar time as it reveals the 2019 iPad, the sources suggest.