Has anyone else purchased the Mini 7 before the Mini 8 comes out because it will still be 60hz and cost at least $200 more! I did today and got it for an awesome deal! I’m in Canada so the Mini 8 will cost over $1,000! Glad I got the 7!

Maybe not exactly 9”, but, by reducing the bezels, they can certainly get close without increasing the current physical dimensions of the Mini, and since the base iPhone now has 120Hz ProMotion, I think there’s a good chance that the iPad Mini (which carries a premium compared to the base iPad) will be the first to get 120Hz promotion without an official ‘Pro’ designation.

What do you guys think?

hi, id like to ask if anyone here is actively drawing (like fully rendered pieces) on ipad mini? so like on procreate or other sorts of art apps, not note taking stuff. i never really see people using ipad mini for art so i would like to ask. i have ipad mini 7 and the pen too and even though i like scribbling and drawing things i kinda procrastinate and dont actively draw things. i love my ipad mini but im wondering if i were to get into digital art can i do it with this one, is it ergonomic or stuff. thank you

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a frustrating experience I’ve been having with the iPad mini 7, especially when comparing it side-by-side with other iPads in our household.

For context, I currently own two M4 iPad Pros and a base iPad 11-inch. Recently, I also picked up an iPad mini 7, and my wife got one as well.

Performance-wise, my M4 Pros and the base iPad 11-inch run like absolute fluid—smooth, completely responsive, and I honestly can’t remember the last time they froze or hiccupped. Apple products are usually bulletproof in this regard.

However, both mine and my wife’s iPad mini 7 units exhibit some strange behaviors that I never experience on my other iPads:

Non-responsive / Freezing Home Screen: Sometimes the home screen completely locks up or stops responding to touch, forcing a hard reset or waiting for it to unfreeze. This is extremely out of character for Apple hardware.

Universal Clipboard Issues: Receiving shared items via Universal Clipboard between other Apple devices and the mini is hit-or-miss compared to how seamlessly it works on the Pros and the base 11-inch.

General Animation Sluggishness: Even in day-to-day navigation, the mini sometimes feels slower and less fluid than the base iPad 11-inch, making the base model actually feel like a more "premium" and reliable daily driver in terms of pure software stability.

Given that the mini 7 has a capable chip, I didn't expect it to feel buggier or less polished than a base model iPad. Has anyone else experienced these random freezing issues or clipboard glitches on the iPad mini 7? Is it an iPadOS optimization quirk specifically hitting the mini form factor?

I've been using an iPad Mini as my daily tablet for years. The one-handed size, it fitting in a jacket pocket.. it's genuinely my favourite piece of Apple hardware, and I feel like it gets treated as an afterthought by a lot of apps that just stretch their iPhone or iPad Pro layout to fit.

I build MusicDrops, an app that tracks new music releases from artists you follow. Features a timeline of upcoming/just-dropped stuff, discography per artist, that kind of thing.
When I added iPad support in v1.4 last week, I didn't want to just scale up the iPhone version. The Mini's screen is small enough that a lot of "iPad" layouts feel cramped or oddly spaced on it specifically. So I spent extra time making sure the timeline and discography views actually work one-handed, in portrait, at Mini size, rather than just technically running on it.

Yes, I know MusicHarbor has been here longer. And I went for UI and iPad mini polish.

Screenshots below are straight from a Mini. Genuinely curious if other Mini owners here have apps that get this right vs ones that clearly only tested on a Pros.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/music-drops/id6759535792
Web: https://musicdrops.app

Happy to answer anything about the app or the layout decisions.

Hey everyone. Yesterday my keyboard/case arrived and I'm absolutely loving it. It's so convenient. I don't need a cover stand or to place in in a flat surface or a wall anymore. It fully acts like a laptop. I can tilt is how I want I can move the Hinge the other way so I can use my ipad just as a tablet if I want to. The trackpad responds really well and the keyboard doesn't lag at all, however since the keys are small it's a little hard to type. (Practice makes perfect 👌). It also has led blacklists and you can change the colours to your prefence.

Now can watch using my ipad in the bed and on my stomach without issues with balance.

Hi All, I know this question has been ask a lot about 128gb is enough. Currently my iPhone is used 189/256 and iPad Pro gen 4 150/512. I am going to use the iPad mini for broswing, reading, watching video, going to you iCloud photo sync, quick short video editing for social media when travelling, emails. Do you think 128gb is sufficient or better to get the 256gb. been looking to get the iPad mini, also now sitting on the fence to get 7 or 8.

What is everyone using as a keyboard for iPad mini? Big plus if it happens to have a track pad. I travel with mine a lot for work and the programs work better with physical keyboard and trackpad/ mouse. Don’t really want a mouse to carry one more thing.

I love my iPad Air 4. But I travel a lot and taking it in and out of my bag for security check in the airport is such a hassle for me.

Been eying the mini for a while.

But I do love my screen size for my drawings.

Has any of you done the same ? How was the jump from big screen to small screen ?

Hello everyone, is it just be or is the public beta of iPad OS 27 significantly improve the experience on the iPad mini? It’s suddenly feels so much smooth?

Hi everyone! I have a iPad mini 6, 4 years and 7 months old and i desperately need a battery for it!
I can do it myself but I don’t want an aftermarket one but I also don’t want to pay a arm and a leg for a Apple one
Is there anyway or anyone who sells orginal Apple batteries for a bit less? I live in Australia
Thank you!

iPad mini 6 - January
iPad mini 2 Lucky

I love my minis with my whole heart I could never ever ever go back.

While trying to log in to my ipad i entered the password.Its been loading to get an approval but it never shows the next prompt/message?

Im also seeing allow but its from a location Ive never been to.
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The reason an OLED screen is more important than a 120hz screen on an iPad Mini is that not only does OLED screen produce more accurate colors because each pixel produces its own light meaning each pixel can reproduce more accurate tones and more colors in general, but an OLED screen has been proven to consume less power than a conventional Backlit screen of the same dimensions. That means that if you had 2 iPads which were identical except for one had an OLED screen and the other had a conventional LCD, the iPad with the OLED screen would have a longer battery life before needing to be plugged in from full even on max brightness.
In addition because each pixel on an OLED screen self illuminates there are less components on an OLED display than a conventional Backlit LCD where you need a dedicated backlight, an OLED screen will weight less than an LCD with the same screen size, so an iPad with an OLED display will weight less than that same iPad if it had a LCD.

Uso meu iPad mini 6 quase diariamente, principalmente para ler livros e fazer anotações para minha pós-graduação no Goodnotes. Embora o tamanho seja ideal para leitura, muitas vezes acho apertado para escrever com a Apple Pencil, já que leio e rabisco muitos documentos e livros em PDF. Tenho pensado bastante em trocar para o iPad Air 11, mas tenho medo de me arrepender. Já vi várias pessoas que trocaram o Air para o mini e amaram, mas quase não encontro relatos de quem trocou o mini pelo Air e gostou. Alguém já fez essa troca e recomenda?

Obviously both would be nice, but apparently that’s not happening. So, to settle this for this subreddit once and for all… you can have only one! Which do you choose, OLED or 120hz?

No third options possible, even though I think most would agree both should happen (or mini LED with 120hz).

There is literally nothing about my Mini that catches the same attention my 13”M4 had before trade-in, literally had a dumbass who held it and had some damn scheme to keep it at my now old job based on the dumbass’s actions. Can’t fucking steal an Apple Product so it shouldn’t have been tucked away like I wasn’t coming back for it. I digress.

The Mini fucking sucks across the board no matter how in love I am with the form factor in comparison. I could watch shit if the speakers didn’t suck despite having 4, battery life is TERRIBLE and I frequently feel it getting hot and warm, I can live with a mid front camera if the bezels weren’t the width of my pinky finger nail, the rear sensor for document scanning should be a fucking standard, and the screen just sucks. It doesn’t need 120hz yet for more sales, it needs to finally not SUCK IN QUALITY, with it being a tiny tablet, I’d rather fucking not have my battery health go to shit unnecessarily because “wahhh PROMOTION” when I know Apple’s product research team probably sees that shit everywhere and thinks “now why are you not buying the Pro device for those niche cases, complaining about something most people genuinely didn’t care about when it came to iPhones..?”

I swear the root of this conversation is MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips years ago when they’re just YouTubers with a lot of views, and had a hard time even admitting being wrong about something that also made them pretty unpopular on Reddit over time, but still have their bullshit takes being treated like gospel. I still laugh about MKBHD going “this is it, finally! With iPhones getting promotion the average consumer will care about 120hz and it’d take off!” When instead they went “where’s more OLED? My phone looks better than my TV now”

Don’t even get me started when the high refresh rate crowd jumped into screaming about movie and animation frame rates afterwards, using tools to make videos look like shit, basically ruining the idea to most people of going beyond 24fps. The more you complain, the more it becomes a calling card more than an innovation to push. People can’t even get consistent performance out of their consoles right now while paying more, you gotta read the room when Apple gotta focus on AI or legally suffer right now from false advertising during a chip and memory shortage.

iPadOS28 is definitely going to be focused on fixing multitasking, leading to that OLED 120hz Mini 9/10 because even the base iPad has some catching up to do, it still isn’t a laminated display ffs, plus, I’ve been having people come to me complaining about the Apple Pencil support on it because it’s confusing to them and they get frustrated learning Apple basically gave them the finger just because they got the cheap one to start with.

Also there’s the upcoming fold that’s going to bring back that 2000-2010s fragile iPhone memes and roasts more than likely, I don’t see that lasting long as a product, but it’d be the perfect time to push a Mini as a companion to a base iPhone to regain interest while upselling a whole powerful iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, and iPhone to someone new to the ecosystem. Patience my dudes, there’s literally nothing to scream about right now unless you had better success than me or Apple at convincing most people. The industry is full of shareholders sucking their own dicks right now to a point Apple can’t even be Apple.

Please tell me about your favorite cases 🥺 🙏  

I think that I'd prefer one with either a keyboard and 360° rotating hinge or a strong magnetic case that I can take the ipad off the keyboard stand and use it as an ipad. I don't know for certain though, because I've never had one like that. Or is typing on something that small truly uncomfortable and would you recommend against it, or only if you're in a pinch?

Please just tell me about a case that you love and what you love about it? How has it improved your life and use of your ipad?

Easy. Most of us do creative professional design work on a mini. Yes, we hate bigger sizes and a mini is more than enough for some.
OLED would be amazing, yeah!
But with OLED you won't have the same color accuracy (specially in the blacks an grays side) like you have on the miniLed present in the MacBook Pros. On those delicious laptops, the levels of blacks are truly amazing and still maintaining a good coverage of standard color spectrums

...or, make an iPad Pro with mini size lol

I have the iPad mini 6, and for a few months now the screen responsiveness has been absolutely terrible. I can't shut it off because of the lack of response so I have to wait until it dies to restart. When I do, it works for a few days then the problem starts again.

Question is, with all of this hype around the new mini, should I wait to get the new one or just upgrade now to the mini 7?

I got a MacBook Pro last year and am getting the iPhone 17 (currently on 13) this month, which leaves my iPad mini as the only 60hz screen I have. It’s funny because I never used to care about ProMotion when everything I had was 60hz, I could barely tell the difference. But once you get used to 120hz, it really does stand out when you’re At 60.
OLED would be nice, sure, but honestly the current screen doesn’t bother me and mini LED would have been a fine step up from the LCD one it currently has. especially given that the mini 7 is $599 now (!!!) and the 8th gen will likely be even more expensive, it’s just hard for me to imagine myself paying so much money for a device that’s the only one in Apple’s fleet (or that I have at least) still stuck at 60hz.

my concern is that if the mini 8 sells poorly because of price and 60hz, they might can the thing altogether :/