The iPad 11 features hardware that is decent enough to perform functions that the majority of users would carry out on an affordable tablet, but according to some leaked code, Apple is making sure that performance will be the least of your worries when upgrading to the iPad 12 sometime next year. Additionally, the low-cost slate is revealed to ship with the same N1 wireless networking chip found in the iPhone 17 series and M5 iPad Pro range.

The iPad 12 will skip three chipset generations to be equipped with the same A19 found in the base iPhone 17

Based on the internal pre-release build of iOS 26 that was spotted by Macworld, there are two versions of the iPad 12 sporting the codenames J581 and J588. The highlight of both these devices is that they will ship with the A19, the same

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