This is the new iPad Air 4. It has a new pro-like design,
new display, and new power button. If you are upgrading from an older ipad
you are probably coming from something that looks a little more like this. ………so, what are
the differences between an iPad that looks like this and the new iPad air 4?..........lets see…..
Hey, my name is Jerry and I was very excited to open up this box and see
the new iPad Air 4. Just as expected the color is what I would call a mint green
that is subdued but not as pale as it seems the blue Air 4 is. Inside the box you also
get a 20watt power adapter which is more than you get with the iPhone 12, and a USBC to USBc cable.
Going through the iPad setup is very similar to previous ipads
and the one thing I was curious about was setting up touch ID.
Since the iPad Air 4 does not have a home button Apple moved touch ID to the power or sleep/wake
button instead and the process is pretty much the same as setting up touch ID on a home button.
First you repeatedly lift your finger and touch the button then
after a while it asks you to adjust your finger to get more of the edges……….And
that’s how you set up touch ID on the iPad Air 4. Very similar to previous generation ipads.
OK, so here is the new iPad Air 4. I think it looks really nice. I think it feels really nice
too. The is running iPad os14 along with my 6th gen ipad so lets see how they compare……
We already talked about how touch ID is inside the power button on the
Air 4 compares to the home button on previous ipads,
because there is no home button on the air 4. So how do you wake them up and unlock them?,,,,,,,,
With older ipads you can press the home button once then keep you finger resting on it for a
second and it will unlock. You can do the same thing with the new Air 4. Press the button and
keep your finger rested on the sensor for a second and it unlocks.
Now, if this is your first apple device without a home button there are going to
be a few changes with how you move around the interface so let me talk about that real quick.
….. Go home
Multitask Home bar
swipe …….
And that’s just the basics of moving around an all screen ipad vs an iPad with a home button.
Now, I have mentioned this new display and all screen ipad
and what you will notice most is that it is bigger and with the smaller bezels it looks
nicer. More modern……but you actually get more than you realize at first.
The display is 10.9” vs the more common 9.7” ipads and the display is laminated
to the glass…….what that means is there is no gap or separation between the display
and glass which brings the pixels closer and feels like you are interacting with the pixels
themselves………….There are also more colors with the wide p3 color gamut which will come in handy
when looking at photos from modern iPhones which can capture that wider color range.
You also get truetone in this ipad which changes the white balance of the screen depending on
the ambient lighting, making the colors on the screen act more like a physical object or photo.
As far as brightness goes, depending on how old your ipad is, you may see a 25%
increase in brightness. This 6th gen ipad matches the iPad air 4 at 500nits of brightness and let me
turn these up and see if I see a difference. …
If you have anything older than a 5th gen ipad you will get a brighter display
by upgrading to this air 4 which can help with using outside or in very bright rooms.
As far as cameras go, the iPad Air 4 gets much better cameras than previous non-pro ipads. The
iPad air 3 and the last few generations of the standard iPad have an 8mp rear camera with an f2.4
aperture that can shoot HD video. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,The Air 4 gets either a very similar or the same
camera as what is in the ipad pro which is 12mp, f1.8 aperture, and can do 4k video at 60 fps.
SO if you are one of the 3 people that use their iPads for photo or video then
this will be a big upgrade….And I am not knocking you if you do,
I used my iPad pro to help shoot a number of my videos for youtube.
The front facing camera also gets a nice boost with the Air 4. There is a 7mp
1080p camera compared to a 1.2mp 720p camera on previous ipads.
Both of these ipads have dual speakers. The older ipad has 2 speakers at the
bottom and the air 4 has one speaker on each side……..The nice thing about the ipad air is
that just like the ipads pro the speakers will automatically orient them selves in landscape.
So no matter if you are holding the ipad with the power button on the left side or
right side, the speakers will adjust to keep the stereo channel on the correct side.
Lets do a little audio test to see how they sound……
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I want to say one thing real quick about the weight. Even though this ipad air 4 is clearly
a larger device than this ipad, it is lighter. The air 4 with cellular comes in at 1.01 lbs
where as this 6th gen with cellular comes in at 1.05 lbs. So if you were at all
concerned about the weight when upgrading to a larger ipad you shouldn’t need to worry.
If you are using a previous iPad that supports the original apple pencil like the 6th, 7th,
or 8th gen ipad, ipad air 3, or first generations of the ipad pro, that pencil will not work with
this ipad. If you want to use an apple pencil you need the 2nd generation apple pencil
which connects magnetically to the side of the ipad air and to charge and pair.
Another change you may notice is that the Air 4 has a USB-C port at the bottom instead lightning.
This is a big upgrade because not only can you get faster charging, you can also connect a slew
of USB accessories like SD card readers, USB drives, AV connectors to connect this to an
external display, USB hubs, and other things……this helps expand the possibilities of the ipad.
As far as battery life goes, you get the same 10 hours of
surfing or watching video as every ipad has since the original in 2010. So you should see
the same or better battery life than what you have in an older ipad depending on your battery health
and how old it is. ………I do wish that Apple could start adding to the battery life over
time but at the expense of extra battery life we do keey getting faster processors.
Apple put its newest chip in the iPad air 4,
the A14. And it is fast. Its got more cores, more megahertz, more GPU, more
neural network than your old ipad. Most of you will not care about his but here is the
geekbench results between my 6th gen ipad from early 2018 with an A10 vs the A14 in the Air 4.
And what this translates to for the average user is
faster app launches, faster app installs, faster webpage loading, fewer random stutters when
switching apps,and some games will get better detail in the graphics. …………..There of course
will be niche use cases like video editing that will work far better on this air vs this guy.
So, if you are upgrading from an iPad that looks like this and an iPad air 4 there are going to be
some differences. You get a more modern design, better screen, much better cameras, USB-C support
for accessories, and performance that will last for years………If you are upgrading from an iPad
with a home button for the first time you may have to retrain your muscles to unlock from the power
button instead of the home button and of course learn some new gestures to get around the system.
I think the ipad air 4 is an awesome ipad.
It takes what is great about ipad like good performance and features at a reasonable price
and mixes it with the premium design cues from the ipad pro line. The addition of USB-C
allows for many pore possibilities and brings the iPad Air 4 closer to replaceing a computer.
If you are interested to see how an iPad can be your only computer, check out this video over
here. …….Hit the thumbs up if you liked it, hit subscribe if you want and Ill see you next time,