The Apple iPad (2025) measures 179.5 x 248.6 mm with a thickness of just 7 mm and a weight of 481 g, giving it a relatively slim and manageable physical profile with a total volume of 312.37 cm³. The device does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard in the box. It carries no water resistance rating, and its operating temperature range runs from 0 °C at the lower end to a maximum of 35 °C.
The Apple iPad (2025) features a 10.9-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a resolution of 2360 x 1640 px at a pixel density of 264 ppi, delivering a reasonably sharp image across the panel. The display runs at a 60Hz refresh rate with a touch sampling rate of 180Hz, and reaches a typical brightness of 500 nits. It does not include branded damage-resistant glass, an anti-reflection coating, or HDR10 support, and it is neither a sapphire glass nor an e-paper display.
The Apple iPad (2025) is powered by the Apple A16 Bionic chipset, built on a 4 nm process with 16 billion transistors and a hexa-core CPU configuration clocked at 2 x 3.46 GHz and 4 x 2.02 GHz across its performance and efficiency cores, supported by 6 threads and a front-end width of 8. It comes with 6GB of LPDDR5 RAM running at 6400 MHz across 2 memory channels, offering a maximum memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s, and ships with 512GB of internal storage with no external memory slot available. The integrated Apple A16 GPU runs at 1398 MHz and includes 128 shading units, with OpenGL ES 3 support, while the chip also features integrated LTE, big.LITTLE and HMP scheduling, NX bit, and TrustZone for security. Cache configuration stands at 256 KB for L1 and 24 MB for L2, and the SoC supports 64-bit processing; ECC memory, however, is not supported. Geekbench 6 scores come in at 2321 for single-core and 5684 for multi-core performance.
The Apple iPad (2025) has a 12 MP rear camera with an f/1.8 aperture, a BSI CMOS sensor, touch autofocus, HDR mode, panorama, burst mode, timelapse, slow-motion video recording, and manual exposure control, while continuous autofocus during video, optical image stabilization, manual focus, manual white balance, manual ISO, manual shutter speed, and a flash are all absent. The main camera supports 4K video recording at up to 60 fps. On the front, there is a 12 MP camera with an f/2.4 aperture, though it lacks a front-facing LED flash. Neither camera supports 360-degree panoramas or a video light.
The Apple iPad (2025) includes stereo speakers and a dual-microphone setup for audio input, covering the basics for media playback and voice capture. It does not have a 3.5 mm headphone jack, so wired audio requires an adapter or wireless connection, and there is no built-in radio tuner.
The Apple iPad (2025) is equipped with an 8500 mAh rechargeable battery rated for up to 10 hours of use, with a battery level indicator available to monitor charge status. The battery is not removable, and the device supports neither fast charging nor wireless charging, meaning it relies on standard wired charging only.
The Apple iPad (2025) supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) along with Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 4, and connects to cellular networks via a single eSIM with 5G support. Bluetooth 5.3 is on board alongside GPS, a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and barometer, while NFC, ANT+, Ethernet, HDMI output, an infrared sensor, and a built-in projector are all absent. For physical connectivity, the device uses a USB Type-C port at USB 2.0 speeds, and biometric security is handled by a fingerprint scanner; 3D facial recognition and an iris scanner are not present. On the software side, it supports split screen, Picture-in-Picture, SharePlay, AirPlay, Live Text, focus modes, dark mode, widgets, media picker, full-page screenshots, Quick Start, Wi-Fi password sharing, offline voice recognition, voice commands, sharing intents, customizable notifications, battery health check, child lock, app offloading, and direct OS vendor updates, though theme customization, dynamic theming, an extra dim mode, and the ability to play games while downloading are not available. Privacy features include Mail Privacy Protection, clipboard warnings, location privacy options, camera and microphone access controls, app tracking blocking, cross-site tracking prevention, and on-device machine learning. The device tracks the current position of a mobile device and supports device tracking, but it is not a multi-user system and is not free or open source. DLNA certification is also not present.
In Geekbench 5 benchmarks, the Apple iPad (2025) scores 1874 in the single-core test and 5382 in the multi-core test. The device uses DDR5 memory but does not support multithreading.
