iPad · Pro

2024

iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)

Debuts Apple M4 silicon and Tandem OLED Ultra Retina XDR in a breakthrough 5.3 mm enclosure with landscape Face ID and Apple Pencil Pro.

Announced
2024-05-07
Family
iPad
Branch
Pro
Historical weight
Paradigm shift

Key specifications

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Display
11-inch Ultra Retina XDR tandem OLED, 2420×1668, ProMotion
Chip / CPU
Apple M4
Memory
8 GB or 16 GB RAM
Base storage
256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB
Ports & charging
Thunderbolt / USB 4, Smart Connector
Weight
444 g (Wi-Fi)
Dimensions
249.7×177.5×5.3 mm
Original OS
iPadOS 17
Launch price
from $999
Released
May 2024
Graphics
10-core Apple GPU
CPU cores
9-core or 10-core CPU

Generation delta

What changed?

Introduced

8
  • Ultra Retina XDR display with Tandem OLED technology

    State-of-the-art display utilizing two stacked OLED light-emitting panels to achieve 1,000 nits full-screen brightness for SDR and HDR, 1,600 nits peak HDR brightness, 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, sub-millisecond pixel response time, true specular highlights, absolute blacks, and ProMotion dynamic refresh rate from 10Hz to 120Hz.

    Display
  • Nano-texture display glass option

    For the first time on iPad, a high-precision etched glass surface option available on 1TB and 2TB configurations that scatters ambient light to minimize glare while maintaining image sharpness and contrast.

    Display
  • Apple M4 chip (2nd-generation 3nm)

    Features a next-generation CPU with 3 performance and 6 efficiency cores (9-core CPU on 256GB/512GB) or 4 performance and 6 efficiency cores (10-core CPU on 1TB/2TB), a 10-core GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, mesh shading, and Dynamic Caching, and a 16-core Neural Engine delivering 38 trillion operations per second (38 TOPS) — 60x faster than Apple's first Neural Engine.

    Silicon
  • Breakthrough 5.3 mm ultra-thin enclosure

    Re-engineered chassis reducing thickness from 5.9 mm to 5.3 mm and weight to 444 g (Wi-Fi) / 446 g (Cellular), integrating graphite sheets into the main housing and copper into the rear Apple logo to improve thermal performance by 20 percent.

    Connectivity
  • Landscape 12MP TrueDepth front camera

    Front camera and Face ID sensor array repositioned to the landscape top edge for natural video conferencing framing.

    Camera
  • Apple Pencil Pro support

    Advanced active stylus with squeeze gesture (initiating quick tool switches), barrel roll (gyroscope for dynamic brush orientation), custom haptic feedback motor, Apple Pencil hover, and Find My tracking integration.

    Ports
  • Redesigned Magic Keyboard

    Aluminum top case and palm rest, a 14-key dedicated function row (including brightness and volume), larger glass trackpad with haptic feedback, and magnetic passthrough USB-C charging.

    Ports
  • Adaptive True Tone rear flash

    AI-assisted multi-frame flash that captures multiple photos to eliminate shadows when scanning physical documents.

    Storage

Changed

3
  • Base storage configuration

    Baseline storage doubled from 128GB to 256GB, available in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities.

    Storage
  • RAM allocation

    8GB unified memory on 256GB/512GB models; 16GB unified memory on 1TB/2TB models (with 120GB/s memory bandwidth).

    Storage
  • Cellular SIM architecture

    Standardized on eSIM-only globally, eliminating the physical nano-SIM tray.

    Connectivity

Retired

3
  • 10MP Ultra Wide rear camera

    Retired from the rear camera bump, focusing the rear imaging module on an optimized 12MP Wide camera, LiDAR Scanner, and adaptive flash.

    Camera
  • Apple Pencil (2nd generation) compatibility

    Incompatible with Apple Pencil 2 due to re-engineered magnetic charging infrastructure.

    Power
  • Physical SIM card slot

    Removed on all cellular configurations.

    Connectivity

Retained

3
  • Thunderbolt / USB 4 port supporting up to 40 Gbps data transfer speeds and external dis…

    Thunderbolt / USB 4 port supporting up to 40 Gbps data transfer speeds and external display output up to 6K resolution.

    Display
  • Four-speaker spatial audio system and studio-quality four-microphone array

    Four-speaker spatial audio system and studio-quality four-microphone array.

    Audio
  • 31.29-watt-hour battery delivering up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi

    31.29-watt-hour battery delivering up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi.

    Connectivity

Technology DNA

Ideas carried by this generation.

Canonical predecessor

iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)