iPad Air 13-inch (M2) - Tech Specs

Finish

• Blue

• Purple

• Starlight

• Space Grey

Capacity¹

• 128GB

• 256GB

• 512GB

• 1TB

Size and Weight²

• Wi‑Fi models

• width: 214.9 mm (8.46 inches)

• height: 280.6 mm (11.04 inches)

• depth: 6.1 mm (0.24 inches)

• Weight: 617 grams (1.36 pounds)

• Wi‑Fi Cellular models

• width: 214.9 mm (8.46 inches)

• height: 280.6 mm (11.04 inches)

• depth: 6.1 mm (0.24 inches)

• Weight: 618 grams (1.36 pounds)

Buttons and Connectors

• Smart Connector

• Speaker

• Microphone

• Volume buttons

• Camera

• Magnetic connector

• USB‑C connector

• Top button / Touch ID sensor

In the Box

• iPad Air

• USB‑C Charge Cable (1 metre)

Display

• Liquid Retina display

• LED backlit Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology

• 2732x2048-pixel resolution at 264 ppi

• Wide colour (P3)

• True Tone

• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating

• Fully laminated

• Anti-reflective coating

• 600 nits brightness

• Supports Apple Pencil Pro

• Supports Apple Pencil (USB‑C)

• Apple Pencil hover

Chip

Apple M2 chip

• 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores

• 9-Core GPU

• 16-core Neural Engine

• 8GB RAM

Media Engine

• Hardware-accelerated H.264 and HEVC

• Video decode engine

• Video encode engine

Camera

• 12MP Wide camera, ƒ/1.8 aperture

• Digital zoom up to 5x

• Five-element lens

• Autofocus with Focus Pixels

• Panorama (up to 63MP)

• Smart HDR 4

• Wide colour capture for photos and Live Photos

• Photo geotagging

• Auto image stabilisation

• Burst mode

• Image formats captured: HEIF and JPEG

Video Recording

• 4K video recording at 24 fps, 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps

• 1080p HD video recording at 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps

• 720p HD video recording at 30 fps

• Slo‑mo video support for 1080p at 120 fps or 240 fps

• Time-lapse video with stabilisation

• Extended dynamic range for video up to 30 fps

• Cinematic video stabilisation (4K, 1080p and 720p)

• Continuous autofocus video

• Playback zoom

• Video formats captured: HEVC and H.264

Front Camera

• Landscape 12MP Ultra Wide front camera

• ƒ/2 aperture

• Smart HDR 4

• 1080p HD video recording at 25 fps, 30 fps or 60 fps

• Time-lapse video with stabilisation

• Extended dynamic range for video up to 30 fps

• Cinematic video stabilisation (1080p and 720p)

• Lens correction

• Retina Flash with True Tone

• Auto image stabilisation

• Burst mode

Video Calling³

• FaceTime video

• Centre Stage

• iPad to any FaceTime‑enabled device over Wi‑Fi or a mobile network

• Share experiences like movies, TV, music and other apps in a FaceTime call with SharePlay

• Screen sharing

• Portrait mode in FaceTime video

• Spatial Audio

• Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum microphone modes

Audio Calling³

• FaceTime audio

• iPad to any FaceTime‑enabled device over Wi‑Fi or a mobile network

Speakers

• Landscape stereo speakers

Micro­phones

• Dual microphones for calls, video recording and audio recording

Mobile and Wireless

• All models

• Wi‑Fi 6E (802.11ax) with 2x2 MIMO⁴

• Simultaneous dual band

• Bluetooth 5.3

• Wi‑Fi Cellular models

• 5G (sub-6 GHz) with 4x4 MIMO

• Gigabit LTE with 4x4 MIMO

• Model A2899 and A2903:

• 5G NR (Bands n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n14, n20, n25, n26, n28, n29, n30, n38, n40, n41, n48, n66, n70, n71, n75, n76, n77, n78, n79)⁴

• FDD-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 66, 71)

• TD-LTE (Bands 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 48)

• UMTS/HSPA/HSPA /DC‑HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

• Data only⁵

• Wi‑Fi calling⁴

• eSIM⁶

SIM Card

• eSIM⁶

• iPad Air uses eSIM technology and is not compatible with physical SIM cards.

Location

• All models

• Digital compass

• Wi‑Fi

• iBeacon micro-location

• Wi‑Fi Cellular models

• GPS/GNSS

• Mobile data

Sensors

• Touch ID

• Three‐axis gyro

• Accelerometer

• Barometer

• Ambient light sensor

Touch ID

• Unlock iPad

• Secure personal data within apps

• Make purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store and Apple Books

Apple Pay

• Pay with your iPad using Touch ID within apps and on the web

Siri⁷

• Use your voice to send messages, set reminders and more

• Get proactive suggestions

• Use hands-free

• Listen to and identify songs

Charging and Expansion

• USB‑C port with support for:

• Charging

• DisplayPort

• USB 3 (up to 10Gb/s)

Display Support

• Supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colours

• Supports one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

• Digital video output

• Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C

• VGA, HDMI and DVI output supported using adapters (sold separately)

• Video mirroring

• Up to 4K AirPlay for mirroring, photos and video out to Apple TV (2nd generation or later) or AirPlay‑enabled smart TV

• Video mirroring and video out support through USB‑C Digital AV Multiport Adapter and USB‑C VGA Multiport Adapter (adapters sold separately)

Power and Battery⁸

• Built‐in 36.59‐watt‐hour rechargeable lithium‑polymer battery

• Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi‐Fi or watching video

• Charging via power adapter or USB‑C to computer system

• Wi‑Fi Cellular models

• Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using a mobile data network

Operating System

iPadOS

iPadOS comes with powerful features and built-in apps designed to take advantage of the unique capabilities of iPad.

Accessi­bility

Built-in accessibility features supporting vision, mobility, hearing and cognitive disabilities help you get the most out of your iPad.

Features include:

• VoiceOver

• Zoom

• Magnifier

• Spoken Content

• Voice Control

• Switch Control

• AssistiveTouch

• Siri and Dictation

• Type to Siri

• Real-Time Text

• Audio Descriptions

• Subtitles and Closed Captioning

Built-in Apps

• App Store

• Books

• Calendar

• Camera

• Clock

• Contacts

• FaceTime

• Files

• Find My

• Freeform

• Home

• iTunes Store

• Magnifier

• Mail

• Maps

• Measure

• Messages

• Music

• News

• Notes

• Photo Booth

• Photos

• Podcasts

• Reminders

• Safari

• Settings

• Shortcuts

• Siri

• Stocks

• Tips

• Translate

• TV

• Voice Memos

• Weather

Free Apps from Apple

• Pages

• Numbers

• Keynote

• iMovie

• GarageBand

• Apple Store

• Clips

• Swift Playgrounds

• Support

System Require­ments

• Apple ID (required for some features)

• Internet access⁹

Syncing to a Mac or PC requires:

• macOS Catalina 10.15 or later using the Finder

• macOS High Sierra 10.13 to macOS Mojave 10.14.6 using iTunes 12.9 or later

• Windows 10 or later using iTunes 12.12.10 or later (free download from apple.com/uk/itunes/download)

Languages

Language support

• Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional – Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia, India, UK, US), Finnish, French (Canada, France), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Latin America, Spain, US), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

QuickType keyboard support

• Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Apache (Western), Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Armenian, Assamese, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bangla (Standard, Transliteration), Belarusian, Bodo, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese – Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Phonetic, Stroke, Sucheng), Catalan, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chinese – Simplified (Handwriting, Pinyin – QWERTY, Pinyin – 10-Key, Shuangpin, Stroke), Chinese – Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Pinyin – QWERTY, Pinyin – 10-Key, Shuangpin, Stroke, Sucheng, Zhuyin), Choctaw, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), Dzongkha, Emoji, English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), Fula (Adlam), Georgian, German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Greek, Gujarati (Standard, Transliteration), Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi (Devanagari, Latin, Transliteration), Hmong (Pahawh), Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Ingush, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese (Handwriting, Kana, Romaji), Kabyle, Kannada (Standard, Transliteration), Kashmiri (Arabic, Devanagari), Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani (Devanagari), Korean (2-Set, 10-Key), Kurdish (Arabic, Latin), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Liangshan Yi, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maithili, Malay (Arabic, Latin), Malayalam (Standard, Transliteration), Maltese, Mandaic, Manipuri (Bengali, Meetei Mayek), Māori, Marathi (Devanagari, Transliteration), Mi’kmaw, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, N’Ko, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Odia, Osage, Pashto, Persian, Persian (Afghanistan), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi – QWERTY, Gurmukhi – Standard, Transliteration), Rejang, Rohingya, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Santali (Devanagari, Ol Chiki), Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Sindhi (Arabic, Devanagari), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamazight (Standard Moroccan), Tamil (Anjal, Tamil 99, Transliteration), Telugu (Standard, Transliteration), Thai, Tibetan, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu (Standard, Transliteration), Uyghur, Uzbek (Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin), Vietnamese (Telex, VIQR, VNI), Wancho, Welsh, Wolastoqey, Yiddish, Yoruba

QuickType keyboard support with auto-correction

• Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Bangla, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese – Simplified (Pinyin – QWERTY), Chinese – Traditional (Pinyin – QWERTY, Zhuyin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Greek, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi (Devanagari, Latin, Transliteration), Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese (Kana, Romaji), Korean (2-Set, 10-Key), Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Persian, Persian (Afghanistan), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Tamil (Anjal, Tamil 99), Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese (Telex)

QuickType keyboard support with predictive typing

• Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Cantonese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Hebrew, Hindi (Devanagari, Latin), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese

QuickType keyboard support with multilingual typing

• Chinese (Simplified – Pinyin, Traditional – Pinyin), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Hebrew, Hindi (Latin), Italian, Japanese (Romaji), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Turkish, Vietnamese

QuickType keyboard support with contextual suggestions

• Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Chinese (Simplified), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Hindi (Devanagari, Latin), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese

QuickPath keyboard support

• Arabic, Chinese (Simplified – Pinyin – QWERTY, Traditional – Pinyin – QWERTY), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Vietnamese

Siri languages

• Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), Finnish (Finland), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Hebrew (Israel), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Republic of Korea), Malay (Malaysia), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Norwegian (Norway), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Spanish (Chile, Mexico, Spain, US), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Türkiye)

Dictation languages

• Arabic (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates), Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, UK, US), Finnish, French (Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Shanghainese (China mainland), Slovak, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain, US), Swedish, Turkish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Monolingual dictionary support

• Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional – Hong Kong), Danish, Dutch, English (UK, US), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Idiom dictionary support

• Cantonese–English, Chinese (Simplified)–English, Chinese (Traditional)–English

Bilingual dictionary support

• Arabic–English, Bangla–English, Chinese (Simplified)–English, Chinese (Traditional)–English, Chinese (Simplified)–Japanese, Czech–English, Dutch–English, Finnish–English, French–English, French–German, German–English, Greek–English, Gujarati–English, Hindi–English, Hungarian–English, Indonesian–English, Italian–English, Japanese–English, Korean–English, Malay–English, Polish–English, Portuguese–English, Russian–English, Spanish–English, Swedish–English, Tamil–English, Telugu–English, Thai–English, Urdu–English, Vietnamese–English

Thesaurus

• Chinese (Simplified), English (UK, US)

Spellcheck

• Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Greek, Finnish, Hindi (Devanagari), Hungarian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, Vietnamese

Apple Pay–supported regions

• Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China mainland,¹⁰ Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Guernsey, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, US, Vatican City, Vietnam

Video Playback

• Supported formats include HEVC, H.264 and ProRes

• Supports Dolby Vision and HDR10 content

Audio Playback

• Supported formats include AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Atmos

• Spatial Audio playback

• User-configurable maximum volume limit

Mail Attachment Support

Viewable document types

• .jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics; .usdz; .pkpass (Wallet)

Environ­mental Require­ments

• Ambient operating temperature:

• 0° to 35° C (32° to 95° F)

• Non-operating temperature:

• −20° to 45° C (−4° to 113° F)

• Relative humidity:

• 5% to 95% non-condensing

• Operating altitude:

• tested up to 3,000 metres (10,000 feet)

iPad Air and the Environment

iPad Air is designed to reduce environmental impact:¹¹

Progress towards Apple 2030

• More than 20% recycled or renewable content¹²

• Over 30% of manufacturing electricity sourced from clean electricity¹³

• 40% emissions reduction against baseline¹⁴

Materials

• 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure

• 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, representing 99% of the rare earth elements in the device

• 100% recycled tin in the solder of multiple printed circuit boards

• 100% recycled gold in the plating of multiple printed circuit boards

• 100% recycled copper foil in multiple printed circuit boards

• 35% or more recycled plastic in multiple components

Energy

• Over 30% of manufacturing electricity sourced from clean electricity¹³

• ENERGY STAR® certified¹⁵

Packaging

• 100% fibre-based packaging¹⁶

• 40% recycled content in fibre packaging

Waste

• No established final assembly sites generate waste sent to landfill as part of Apple’s Zero Waste Programme

Smarter chemistry¹⁷

• Arsenic-free display glass

• Mercury-, BFR- and PVC-free