iPad Air (5th generation) - Technical Specifications

Finish

• Space Grey

• Starlight

• Pink

• Purple

• Blue

Capacity¹

• 64GB

• 256GB

Size and Weight²

• Wi-Fi models

  • Height: 247.6 mm (9.74 inches)

  • Width: 178.5 mm (7.02 inches)

  • Depth: 6.1 mm (0.24 inches)

  • Weight: 461 grams (1.02 pounds)

• Wi-Fi + Cellular models

  • Height: 247.6 mm (9.74 inches)

  • Width: 178.5 mm (7.02 inches)

  • Depth: 6.1 mm (0.24 inches)

  • Weight: 462 grams (1.02 pounds)

Buttons and Connectors

1. Front camera

2. Top button/Touch ID

3. Volume buttons

4. Rear camera

5. Smart Connector

6. USB-C connector

7. SIM tray (Wi-Fi + Cellular)

8. Magnetic connector for Apple Pencil

In the Box

• iPad Air (5th generation)

• USB‑C Charge Cable (1 metre)

• 20W USB‑C Power Adapter

Display

• Liquid Retina display

• 10.9-inch (diagonal) LED‑backlit Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology

• 2360x1640-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)

• Wide colour display (P3)

• True Tone display

• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating

• Fully laminated display

• Anti-reflective coating

• 1.8% reflectivity

• 500 nits brightness

• Supports Apple Pencil (2nd generation), Apple Pencil (USB-C)

The iPad Air display has rounded corners. When measured diagonally as a rectangle, the screen is 10.86 inches. Actual viewable area is less.

Chip

Apple M1 chip

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

• 8-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 3

• 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

• 12MP Ultra Wide front camera, 122° field of view

• ƒ/2.4 aperture

• Smart HDR 3

• 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)

• Wide colour capture for photos and Live Photos

• Lens correction

• Retina Flash

• Auto image stabilisation

• Burst mode

Video Calling³

• FaceTime video

• Centre Stage

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

Audio Calling³

• FaceTime audio

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

Speakers

• Stereo speakers

Microphones

• Dual microphones for calls, video recording and audio recording

Mobile and Wireless

• All models

  • 802.11ax Wi‑Fi 6; simultaneous dual band (2.4GHz and 5GHz); HT80 with MIMO

• Bluetooth 5.0 technology

• Wi-Fi + Cellular models

  • Model A2589:

  • 5G NR (Bands n1, n2, n3, n5, n7, n8, n12, n20, n25, n28, n29, n30, n38, n40, n41, n48, n66, n71, 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, 46, 48)

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

  • Data only⁵

  • Wi-Fi calling⁴

  • eSIM⁶

  Learn more about mobile data

For details on 5G and LTE support, contact your provider and see apple.com/uk/ipad/cellular

SIM Card

• Nano‑SIM

• eSIM⁶

Location

• All models

  • Digital compass

  • Wi‑Fi

  • iBeacon micro-location

• Wi-Fi + Cellular models

  • GPS/GNSS

  • Cellular

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

Learn more about Apple Pay

Siri⁷

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

• Get proactive suggestions

• Use hands-free

• Listen to and identify songs

Learn more about Siri

Charging and Expansion

• USB‑C port with support for:

  • Charging

  • DisplayPort

  • USB 3.1 Gen 2 (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 2–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 28.6‐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.

Learn more about iPadOS

iPad User Guide

Accessibility

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

Learn more about Accessibility

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

• Live Captions (beta)

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, Clips and Apple Store app are pre-installed on iPad.

• 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 El Capitan 10.11.6 to macOS Mojave 10.14.6 using iTunes 12.8 or later

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

Languages

• Language support

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

• QuickType keyboard support

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

• QuickType keyboard support with auto-correction

  • Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Bangla, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese – Simplified (Pinyin QWERTY), Chinese – Traditional (Pinyin QWERTY), Chinese – Traditional (Zhuyin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Dutch (Belgium), 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

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

• QuickType keyboard support with multilingual typing

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

• QuickType keyboard support with contextual suggestions

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

• QuickPath keyboard support

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

• Siri languages

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

• Dictation languages

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

• Monolingual dictionary support

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

• Idiom dictionary support

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

• Bilingual dictionary support

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

• Thesaurus

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

• Spellcheck

  • English (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, UK, US), French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain), Arabic, Arabic (Najdi), Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium, Netherlands), Finnish, Greek, Hindi (Devanagari), Hungarian, Irish Gaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, 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, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestinian Territories, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, US, Vatican City

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 with the following features to reduce its environmental impact:¹¹

Learn more about the iPad Air Product Environmental Report (PDF)

Made with better materials

• 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure

• 100% recycled rare earth elements in the enclosure and audio magnets, representing 96% of the rare earth elements in the device

• 100% recycled tin in the solder of the main logic board

• 35% or more recycled plastic in multiple components

Energy efficient

• ENERGY STAR^® certified¹²

Smarter chemistry¹³

• Arsenic-free display glass

• Mercury-, BFR-, PVC- and beryllium-free

Green manufacturing

• Apple’s Zero Waste Programme helps suppliers eliminate waste sent to landfill

• All final assembly supplier sites are transitioning to 100% renewable energy for Apple production

Responsible packaging

• 100% of virgin wood fibre comes from responsibly managed forests

• 90% or more fibre-based packaging

Apple and the Environment

We’re committed to making our products without taking from the earth, and to become carbon neutral across our entire business, including products, by 2030.

Learn more about Apple’s commitment to the environment