While the iPad Air (2024) doesn’t have the new OLED display found on the iPad Pro (2024), the LED Liquid Retina display is still beautiful and perfectly fine for most people. Colors are vibrant, the brightness is high enough to use comfortably no matter where you are, and it has minimal reflection.

The new iPad Pro went on sale last month and won praise from many quarters—you can read my review here. But there was a secret extra that passed reviewers by, because Apple hasn’t mentioned it, and which has now been discovered: the indicators which show when the microphone or camera are in use are now better than ever.

The new Tandem OLED display on the new iPad Pro offers deeper blacks and higher contrast without sacrificing brightness.

When deciding between the Apple M4 iPad Pro and the M3 MacBook Pro, it's essential to consider various factors that impact your portable computing

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Well, according to developer Guilherme Rambo the M4 iPad Pro is: …the first device to support and use Apple’s new Secure Indicator Light (SIL) mechanism. When using the microphone or camera, the corresponding indicator dot is effectively rendered in hardware (using the display),

Apple has introduced a new security feature with the M4 chip on the newest iPad Pro, taking an existing system and making it more secure.