iPad

Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit

Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuff

Personal Tech07 May 2024 | 38

Vivaldi composes Split View sonata for browser on iPadOS

Tweaks to sorting in Notes and Bookmarks, but WebKit still holds conductor's baton

Applications02 May 2024 | 2

Apple's trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4

Patches06 Mar 2024 |

FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping

Demands investigation into iPhone maker for potentially breaching regulations over Beeper Mini

Personal Tech13 Feb 2024 | 16

Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit

Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts

Research26 Oct 2023 | 10

Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations

10-year-old hacks family iPad and goes on in-game bling shopping spree

Offbeat22 May 2023 | 71

Apple finally pro giving Pro iPads these Pro apps

Final Cut, Logic to land on fondleslabs – in subscription form

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 9

Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped

You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow

Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27

Any iPad is foldable if you try hard enough but Apple guru says a hinged one is coming

Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions

Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 14

Apple jacks up Mac, iPhone, iPad battery replacement fees

Prices blowing up makes a change from, well, you know

Systems03 Jan 2023 | 5

By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments

But will be bigger than gaming consoles, so maybe this metaverse thing has legs

Personal Tech22 Dec 2022 | 26

If Apple's environmental rhetoric is meaningful, Macs and iPads should converge

Opinion An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet.

Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 48

Apple exec confirms iPhones will switch to USB-C because 'we have no choice'

Sure you have a choice. You could abandon the European market

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 136

Apple remembers it makes iPads, updates fondleslabs

Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C and the usual two-year-old processor

Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 11

Apple plays the supply-chain card to explain Mac, iPad revenue shrink

Mom, what's an eye pad?

Personal Tech29 Jul 2022 | 6

Apple CEO: Silicon shortages and C-19 lockdowns to hurt sales by up to $8 billion

That Mac you ordered? Lead times stretch to June, but Apple warns 'most products affected' over next 3 months

Personal Tech29 Apr 2022 | 11

Apple delivers desktop, mobile OS updates, patches dozens of security holes

Plus: Face ID can recognize you with a mask on, kinda

OSes16 Mar 2022 | 15

Don't make an iOS of yourself – Apple's patched its OSes, you know the drill

Cupertino also added a Digital Legacy – special IDs so your loved ones can get your data once you're dead

OSes14 Dec 2021 | 26

Apple 'diverts' iPad components to iPhone 13 production, Euro sources not feeling pinch yet

Resellers: Cupertino is doing OK compared to PC makers

Personal Tech02 Nov 2021 | 9

The future: Windows streaming through notched Apple screens

Interview Choice is the word for Jamf's Dean Hager

Applications25 Oct 2021 | 17

iFixit voids yet another warranty tearing down the 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro

Not too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle

Personal Tech07 Jun 2021 |

Bork to school: Apple kit management service Jamf pulls a sickie for IT crews trying to get pupils on iPads

VPP service TITSUP* at eu-central-1

Personal Tech01 Feb 2021 | 8

Magic! If you have an entry-level iPad, the Combo Touch could make it your workhorse

Review If only cheaper-than-Apple Logitech kit could turn bog-standard slab into a Pro

Personal Tech09 Nov 2020 | 32

Office 365 for the iPad will feel a little more desktop-ish now Microsoft has tossed it trackpad, mouse support

Which is proof such fripperies are down to the developer, rather than Apple

Software27 Oct 2020 | 22

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

OK, fine. Blood-oxygen level monitoring, hexa-core 5nm Arm processors, TV packages...

Personal Tech15 Sep 2020 | 95

iPadOS 14: Apple's attempt to pry fondleslab from toddlers' mitts and make it more businesslike

WWDC Is it a real computer yet?

Software23 Jun 2020 | 24

Man responsible for least popular iteration of Windows UI uses iPad Pro as a desktop*

Updated Plus: Getting over the Build hangover with new Windows 10 preview, UK Azure services, and more

Software26 May 2020 | 49

Apple on 2020 so far: OK, so iPhone sales are a bit glum. Wearables, music, apps, vids to the rescue... almost

Hope on the horizon, says Cook, but it will take some time to get there

Personal Tech01 May 2020 | 11

Apple updates iPad Pro with a trackpad, faster processor. Is it a real computer now?

Ooh, check us out rivals, we've got a 'keyboard'.. well, not a real one. It's Magic, OK?

Personal Tech18 Mar 2020 | 49

Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans

'Magical,' says Steven Sinofsky on 10th birthday of Apple's fondleslab

Personal Tech28 Jan 2020 | 84

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

iGiant paid for Irish educators to attend events abroad – report

Personal Tech11 Nov 2019 | 117

What? No way. Apple? Censoring iOS 13 to appease China? Gosh. How shocking. Who'd have thought it?

iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau

Personal Tech07 Oct 2019 | 40

What is this, 2016? A rummage around in 7th-gen iPad innards shows repurposed tech within

Bigger case means we can use even more glue!

Personal Tech27 Sep 2019 | 15

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

Remanufactured kit never as reliable, complainants claim

Personal Tech18 Sep 2019 | 33

Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

Flagship smartmobe aimed squarely at the selfie generation

Personal Tech10 Sep 2019 | 128

Breaking news: Apple un-breaks break on jailbreak break

The fix for the fix is in

Security26 Aug 2019 | 4

Breaker, breaker. Apple's iOS 12.4 update breaks jailbreak break, un-breaks the break. 10-4

File under: 'Breaking' news

Security20 Aug 2019 | 34

AMD stands for Another Monetary Decline, while Apple continues to sell enough pricey kit to keep Wall Street happy

Su stumbles as Cook and Co log $54bn haul for quarter

On-Prem31 Jul 2019 | 24

Apple sued over fondleslab death blaze: iPad battery blamed for deadly New Jersey apartment fire

Insurers and family fling sueballs at Cupertino giant

Personal Tech24 Jun 2019 | 17

Help the Macless: Apple’s iPadOS is a huge update that will enable more people to do without a Mac... or a PC

WWDC Even mouse support. Kind of

Software06 Jun 2019 | 72

Cooksie is *bam-bam* iGlad all over: Folk are actually buying Apple's fondleslabs again

EMEA shipments for calendar Q1 up 16.7% on last year. As for the rest of the market....

Personal Tech30 May 2019 | 15

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

Once you've wiped the progeny's paw prints from it

Personal Tech16 Apr 2019 | 115

Apple disables iPad for 48 years after toddler runs amok

Three-year-old will have own kid disable it in 2067

Personal Tech09 Apr 2019 | 166

iFixit surgeons tut at iPad mini 5 X-ray: Looks like a mild case of pain-in-the-arse-to-repair

Screwdriver-botherers put the hurt on Apple's little tablet

Personal Tech03 Apr 2019 | 17

Apple's revamped iPad beams a workhorse in from Planet Ludicrous

Analysis Pro features trickle down to the rest of us

Personal Tech20 Mar 2019 | 53

Apple bestows first hardware upgrades in years upon neglected iPad Mini and Air lines

And a stylus! But goes without saying that it ain't cheap

Personal Tech18 Mar 2019 | 74

Apple: Good news, everyone – sales are less bad than we thought. Not amazing but not bad. $84bn is $84bn, tho

Cook and co get a boost after topping their own low bar

Personal Tech30 Jan 2019 | 23

Plug in your iPhone, iPad, iPod, fire up the App Store: You have new Apple patches to install

Open the door, get on the floor – not so fast if you've an iPhone 4

OSes23 Jan 2019 | 20

Reverse Ferret! Forget what we told you – the iPad isn't really for work

Comment ...sadly, and here's why it won't ever be

On-Prem22 Nov 2018 | 102

Microsoft Surface kicks dust in face of Apple iPad Pro in Q3

Hold on Redmond, don't light those fireworks yet, the dominance will be shortlived

On-Prem16 Nov 2018 | 21

Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans

But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest

Personal Tech02 Nov 2018 | 49

Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned

Analysis The business appeal is mixed, but it's working

Personal Tech31 Oct 2018 | 67

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

Analysis Come join us all in our lovely walled garden

Personal Tech30 Oct 2018 | 152

Apple takes $9m kick down under after bricking iPhones

Victory for the right to repair crowd, but a flea bite for Apple

Personal Tech19 Jun 2018 | 48

You know what your problem is, Apple? Complacency

Comment Let's praise the cosy mobile duopoly working so hard to make things so much better

Personal Tech04 Jun 2018 | 59

Apple somehow plucks iPad sales out from 13-quarter death spiral

Off the mortuary Fondleslab

Personal Tech03 May 2018 | 25