![]() ![]() I found another cool Hover implementation in the excellent image-editing app Pixelmator Photo. One place I was able to demo it was in the Notes app when using the new watercolor brush, you can hover the pencil over the screen to see how the color will react with other elements you’ve already drawn. Third-party developers will have to build Hover features into their apps, but it should be a nice new tool in the Pencil’s arsenal. This works system-wide, at least in Apple apps. The most simple example is how app icons increase in size when you hover the Pencil over, showing you what you're about to tap on. If the Pencil is within 12mm of the screen, icons and interface elements can react to it. The M2 on the new iPad Pro also enabled a new trick called Hover. If you’re a visual artist, chances are you already know how well the Pencil works, though. I sure wish I could sit down and sketch and doodle and make the wonderful creations I’ve seen others do, but that’s not happening. The Apple Pencil remains a tool that I’m not particularly great at evaluating, because I am sorely lacking in visual arts skills. But if you make your living with words, as I do, it’s still an essential tool. And now that the basic iPad’s new Magic Keyboard Folio offers a row of function keys and a slightly bigger trackpad, I’m really missing those features here. It’s also crazy expensive, as I already mentioned. The Magic Keyboard still provides the best typing experience you can find on an iPad, though the whole package is pretty heavy. This is admittedly something of a niche feature, but it shows off the M2’s improvements over its predecessor.įrom an accessories standpoint, the iPad Pro uses the same 2nd-generation Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard that have been available since 20, respectively. However, the M2 processor unlocks a new video trick, as the iPad Pro can now record video in Apple’s ProRes codec in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second, a feature first introduced in the iPhone 13 Pro. ![]() The back cameras are also the same: There are 12-megapixel wide and 10-megapixel ultra wide options, along with a flash and LIDAR scanner. This has been true of all iPads for years already, but now that the basic model has gotten a landscape-oriented camera, we’re going to be waiting impatiently for Apple to implement that across its entire lineup. That’s all well and good, but unfortunately the iPad Pro still has its front-facing camera on the portrait edge of the screen, which means you’re always going to be somewhat off-center and not looking directly at the screen if your iPad is in a keyboard dock. This wide-angle camera supports Center Stage, which crops and zooms around your face to keep you in the middle of the frame on a video call. ![]() Just like last year, the iPad Pro has an ultrawide 12-megapixel front-facing camera that supports Face ID authentication. Both iPad Pro models also have the 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate support for the P3 wide color gamut a screen that’s fully laminated to the front glass and an anti-reflective coating. There’s nothing new about the screen this year, but it’s worth highlighting just how good it is. ![]()
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