<\/noscript><\/span><\/div>\nOnly the older Apple Pencil works with the new iPad.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Apple<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
Maybe you don’t care about the Apple Pencil but instead want the latest and greatest in Apple’s keyboard cases. For the new iPad, you can add on a new Magic Keyboard Folio, which offers a 14-key function row for easy access to things like volume controls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A function row seems like a great thing to have with an iPad Air or iPad Pro, right? Alas, the $249 Folio is only compatible with the 10th-gen iPad. And Apple hasn’t updated its keyboard covers for other tablets to add in the function keys despite the fact that the company also announced upgraded iPad Pros. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The situation is frustrating, especially when many accessories already work across devices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Apple’s entire iPad accessories ecosystem now feels fragmented and confusing, especially when many of the existing accessories already working across devices<\/em>. The second-generation Apple Pencil works with both sizes of the iPad Pro, the iPad Air, and<\/em> the iPad Mini, for example. The smaller Magic Keyboard case works with both the 11-inch iPad Pro and the iPad Air, but it isn’t compatible with the new iPad even though that tablet is nearly the exact same size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
No, really, it’s a matter of millimeters. Here are their individual measurements:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Said another way, if Apple had shrunk the new iPad just a bit, it could have been compatible with the smaller Magic Keyboard. Presumably, that would have also meant the Magic Keyboard Folio with its 14 glorious function keys could have worked with the 11-inch iPad Pro and iPad Air, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Apple knows how to make things compatible across gadgets; the company built its name on making things that just work. But for this iPad launch, Apple instead chose to make its tablet ecosystem more fractured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apple introduced new iPads and a bunch of new accessories today, but instead of using the launch as a time to simplify, knowing what works with what is more confusing than ever. Let’s focus first on the 10th-generation iPad, which got the biggest changes. Its new design more closely matches the company’s other recent iPads, …<\/p>\n
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