iPad event 2024 news: 5 biggest Apple announcements

With Apple's Let Loose event now over, these are all the iPad announcements, including the all-new M2 iPad Air, M4 iPad Pro, revamped accessories, software updates, and a cheaper iPad 10.

How to watch Apple's Let Loose event

Even though the event is now over, you can still watch it on Apple's official YouTube Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1J38FlDKxo

iPad event announcements

Here's everything Apple has announced during its iPad event.

M2 iPad Air with new 13-inch option

With this new model, Apple is upgrading the iPad with a better chip and a new 13-inch option. This is the first time the company has unveiled a bigger non-Pro iPad.

The M2 chip features an 8-core CPU — up to 15 percent faster than M1 — with advancements in both performance and efficiency cores and a 10-core GPU, delivering up to 35 percent faster graphics performance for the most demanding users. Combined with the CPU and GPU, the 16-core Neural Engine can process 15.8 trillion operations per second — 40 percent more than M1 — making iPad Air even more powerful when handling machine learning tasks.

The new iPad Air comes in the following colors:

Blue

Purple

Starlight

Spacey Gray

You can learn more about the new iPad Air here.

iPad Pro with M4 chip and Ultra Retina XDR

With the M4 chip, Apple has added an OLED display for both 11-inch and 13-inch models. With that, the company unifies this lineup with the same screen technology, which was previously mixed with LCD and miniLED options. With that, the smaller iPad Pro is only 5.3mm, and the bigger iPad is 5.1mm thinner. They come in silver and space black.

The new iPad Pro offers the M4 chip with the second-generation 3nm technology. It has a powerful new CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores, with next-gen ML generators. Up to 50% faster CPU compared to M2. With a 10-core GPU, it offers Dynamic Caching and hardware ray tracing, with 4x faster performance than M2 iPad Pro. M4 can deliver the same performance as the M2 with just half the power. The Neural Engine comes with a 16-core design, with up to 38 trillion operations per second. 60x faster than Apple’s first Neural Engine.

You can learn more about this announcement here.

Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro updates

One of the iPad event announcements was a new version of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Among the changes coming later this spring, users can take advantage of:

Final Cut Pro 2

Live Multicam

Final Cut Camera with options like white balance, ISO, and shutter speed

Create or open projects from external storage

Logic Pro 2

Session Players feature offers creators a personal, AI-driven backing band that responds to feedback

ChromaGlow adds warmth to tracks

Stem Splitter helps you extract and work with individual parts of a single audio recording.

New accessories

Apple announced a new rMagic Keyboard with function keys. It comes in two colors to match the new iPad Pro. There’s also a new Apple Pencil Pro with a new sensor to enable new squeeze gestures. A gyroscope helps change the brush by just rotating the pencil. It also features Find My capabilities.

You can learn more about Apple Pencil Pro here.