Apple iPad Air 11" M3 Chip (2025) | 128GB | Space Grey
iPad Air Flight Speed
The new iPad Air. Featuring the powerful Apple M3 chip. Up for anything. Built for Apple Intelligence.[1]
Available in 11‑inch or 13‑inch models with four beautiful colours. Both with a stunning Liquid Retina display.[2]
Check out the video:
M3 powers Apple Intelligence, incredible performance, and advanced graphics with hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Apple Pencil Pro for next-level creativity. Magic Keyboard now with a 14-key function row and a larger trackpad.[3]
iPadOS and amazing apps let you get things done in magical, intuitive ways.
Two Sizes. Infinite Possibilities: 11" Model
You can choose between an 11-inch iPad Air with a gorgeous, high-resolution Liquid Retina display that brings everything you love to do to life. Both displays deliver a brilliant, responsive and colour-accurate viewing experience.
Dive into Display: Two Sizes Infinite Possibilities
Choose Your Own Adventures
Both the 11‑inch perfectly portable and offer even more room to work, create, learn and play. Multitask with ease and work seamlessly across multiple apps at once. Take notes and collaborate instantly with your team in apps like Freeform. There’s incredible capability no matter which size you choose.
11” Model Display Resolution
2360x1640 px
Stunningly Advanced Display
An anti-reflective screen coating and True Tone keep text sharp in all kinds of lighting conditions. With high brightness and P3 wide colour, images look stunning. Technically speaking, spectacular.
- 600 nits brightness on 13-inch model
- P3 wide colour
- True Tone for comfortable viewing
- Full lamination for reduced reflectivity
- Anti-reflective coating for the lowest reflectivity in the industry
M3. Light it Up
The lightning‑fast M3 chip powers Apple Intelligence and brings breakout performance to iPad Air. With a powerful CPU, GPU and Neural Engine, it’s nearly 2x faster than iPad Air with M1 chip.[4] The GPU architecture brings advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.[5]
A Chip that’s Ahead of the Game
The Apple-designed M3 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores to power all types of workflows and creative tasks. Its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 40 per cent faster graphics performance than iPad Air with M1 chip and introduces Dynamic Caching, hardware‑accelerated ray tracing and hardware‑accelerated mesh shading for vibrant and realistic photos, videos and graphics.
- 8-core CPU
- 9-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
Advanced Neural Engine for Advanced AI Apps
Up to 60% Faster Neural Engine Performance than M1
The 16‑core Neural Engine makes iPad Air a powerful device for AI, delivering up to 60 per cent faster performance than iPad Air with M1 chip. M3 powers Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Wand in the Notes app. And it enables AI‑driven note‑taking in Goodnotes 6, next‑level video editing in Final Cut Pro for iPad and pro‑quality shot tracking in Onform: Video Analysis App.
Apple Intelligence Personal, Private, Powerful
iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.
Images Wand in Notes
Apple Intelligence enables delightful ways to express yourself visually. Turn a rough sketch into a related image with Image Wand. And create new images based on descriptions, suggested concepts and even a person from your Photos library with Image Playground.
Writing Tools in Mail
Writing Tools help you find just the right words and transform the way you communicate. Proofread your text, rewrite different versions to get the right tone and summarise selected text with a tap.
Clean Up in Photos
With the Clean Up tool in the Photos app, you can easily remove unwanted distractions in your photos. Apple Intelligence identifies background objects so you can delete them with a tap for the perfect shot — while staying true to the original image.
Apple Intelligence protects your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of iPad through on-device processing, so it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger, Apple-designed server‑based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests while protecting your privacy.
iPadOS and Apps. Get Up to Something Wonderful
iPadOS is designed to let you do all the things you love easily and powerfully from first touch to finishing touches. Use multiple apps at the same time, write in any text field, and navigate quickly and efficiently using just your finger, Apple Pencil or the Magic Keyboard trackpad.
Do it All. All at Once
Stage manager lets you multitask effortlessly by allowing you to overlap and resize windows to look the way you want, so you can easily navigate between them. You can also group apps for specific tasks or projects and arrange them in your ideal layout.
Built‑in Apps for All the Essentials
iPad Air comes with powerful and capable apps designed to help you create, connect and get things done. Browse, edit and share your images and videos with Photos. Create dazzling presentations with Keynote and add style with Apple Pencil Pro, or magically solve complex equations in Maths Notes.
Amazing Apps for Any Ask
Apps can transform iPad Air into almost anything you need it to be. And with over a million apps on the App Store designed just for iPad, you’ll find the right app for whatever you want to do.
Apple Pencil Pro Engineered for Limitless Creativity
Apple Pencil sets the standard for how drawing, painting, handwriting and note-taking should feel — intuitive, precise and magical. All with pixel‑perfect precision, low latency, tilt sensitivity and support for palm rejection. And Apple Pencil Pro adds even more capabilities to bring your ideas to life like never before.[3]
Intuitive and Precise Creative Control
Squeeze. Apple Pencil Pro can sense when you squeeze it and brings up a palette, so you can quickly switch tools, line weights and colours.
Check out the video:
Barrel Roll
A gyroscope allows you to rotate Apple Pencil Pro for precise control of shaped pen and brush tools.
Check out the video:
Haptic Feedback
A custom haptic engine delivers precise feedback you can feel. When you squeeze or double‑tap, you’ll feel a light pulse confirming the action.
Check out the video:
Apple Pencil Hover
Preview exactly where your Apple Pencil will touch down on your display, and see a virtual shadow of your tool. So you can write, sketch and illustrate with even greater precision.
Double Tap
Quickly switch between tools, like a pen and eraser, with a double tap on Apple Pencil Pro.
Ready When Inspiration Strikes
Apple Pencil Pro pairs, charges and stores magnetically on the side of iPad Air. And if you lose or misplace it, you can easily locate your Apple Pencil Pro in the Find My app.
iPad Air works with Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C). Two great options for all kinds of creativity.
Magic Keyboard. The Keys to Your Best Work
Magic Keyboard is the perfect companion for iPad Air. It delivers an amazing typing experience and a trackpad for precision tasks in a sleek, portable design. The keyboard includes a 14‑key function row, a USB-C connector for pass‑through charging, and front and back protection for your iPad Air. The floating cantilever design smoothly adjusts to multiple viewing angles, and a large glass trackpad expands how you can work with iPadOS.[3]
Cameras Capture Your Imagination and Everything Else
Advanced front and back cameras make it easy to shoot and edit incredible content in a snap. Copy text in photos or videos and translate languages using Live Text. And Centre Stage makes all your video calls more dynamic.
- 12MP Center Stage camera for even better video calls
- 12MP Wide back camera with Smart HDR images and 4K video
Connectivity. Wait-less Wireless
Stay connected with blazing-fast Wi‑Fi. And with 5G mobile data capabilities on Wi‑Fi + Cellular models, you have the option to add a flexible data plan whenever you need it to browse the web, play games, stream movies and more.[6]
Blazing-fast Connections
Get incredibly fast Wi‑Fi with iPad Air. So you can stream, download and share at high speeds.[6]
Choosing 5G mobile data capabilities gives you the ultimate flexibility so you can connect to the fastest wireless networks, even if it’s just for a day or while you’re on holiday.[6]
iPad Air uses eSIM, enabling a fast, convenient and secure way to activate your mobile data plan directly on your device.[7]
Bluetooth 5.3 low-latency audio supports next-generation headsets and hearing aids that use Bluetooth LE.
Connect to Displays, Drives and Devices with USB‑C
USB‑C gives you fast, easy connections to your go‑to accessories like external displays, docks, drives and cameras. Perfect for quick transfers of large photos and videos.[3]
Notes:
1. Apple Intelligence is available in beta. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. For feature and language availability and system requirements.
2. The displays have rounded corners. When measured diagonally as a rectangle, the 13‑inch iPad Pro is 13 inches, the 11‑inch iPad Pro is 11.1 inches, the 13‑inch iPad Air is 12.9 inches, the 11‑inch iPad Air and iPad are 10.86 inches, and the iPad mini is 8.3 inches. Actual viewable area is less.
3. Accessories sold separately.
4. Testing conducted by Apple in January and February 2025 using pre-production iPad Air 11‑inch (M3) and iPad Air 13‑inch (M3) units as well as production iPad Air (5th generation) units. Tested with Procreate Dreams v1.0.14 by exporting a 29‑second project. Performance tests are conducted using specific iPad units and reflect the approximate performance of iPad Air.
5. Testing conducted by Apple in January and February 2025 using pre-production iPad Air 11‑inch (M3) and iPad Air 13‑inch (M3) units. Testing consisted of full battery discharge while performing each of the following tasks: video playback and internet browsing using Wi‑Fi or a mobile data network (cellular models subscribed to LTE and 5G networks). Video content was a repeated 2‑hour 23‑minute movie purchased from the iTunes Store. Internet over Wi‑Fi and mobile data network tests were conducted using dedicated web servers, browsing snapshot versions of 20 popular web pages. All settings were default except: Wi‑Fi was associated with a network (except for internet browsing over mobile data network); the Wi‑Fi feature Ask to Join Networks and Auto-Brightness were turned off; Brightness was set to 50%; and WPA2 encryption was enabled. Battery life depends on device settings, usage, network and many other factors. Battery tests are conducted using specific iPad units; actual results may vary.
6. Wi‑Fi 6E available in countries and regions where supported. Data plan required. 5G, Gigabit, LTE and Wi‑Fi calling are available in selected markets and through selected network providers. Speeds are based on theoretical throughput and vary based on site conditions and network. For details on 5G and LTE support, contact your provider.
7. Not all network providers support eSIM.
What's in the Box:
- USB‑C charge cable (1 metre)
Product Features:
- Digital zoom up to 5x
- Five-element lens
- Panorama (up to 63MP)
- Sapphire crystal lens cover
- Autofocus with focus pixels
- Smart HDR 4
- FaceTime video
- Centre Stage
- FaceTime audio
- Sensors: Touch ID, Three‐axis gyro, Accelerometer, Barometer, Ambient light sensor
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Description
iPad Air Flight Speed
The new iPad Air. Featuring the powerful Apple M3 chip. Up for anything. Built for Apple Intelligence.[1]
Available in 11‑inch or 13‑inch models with four beautiful colours. Both with a stunning Liquid Retina display.[2]
Check out the video:
M3 powers Apple Intelligence, incredible performance, and advanced graphics with hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
Apple Pencil Pro for next-level creativity. Magic Keyboard now with a 14-key function row and a larger trackpad.[3]
iPadOS and amazing apps let you get things done in magical, intuitive ways.
Two Sizes. Infinite Possibilities: 11" Model
You can choose between an 11-inch iPad Air with a gorgeous, high-resolution Liquid Retina display that brings everything you love to do to life. Both displays deliver a brilliant, responsive and colour-accurate viewing experience.
Dive into Display: Two Sizes Infinite Possibilities
Choose Your Own Adventures
Both the 11‑inch perfectly portable and offer even more room to work, create, learn and play. Multitask with ease and work seamlessly across multiple apps at once. Take notes and collaborate instantly with your team in apps like Freeform. There’s incredible capability no matter which size you choose.
11” Model Display Resolution
2360x1640 px
Stunningly Advanced Display
An anti-reflective screen coating and True Tone keep text sharp in all kinds of lighting conditions. With high brightness and P3 wide colour, images look stunning. Technically speaking, spectacular.
- 600 nits brightness on 13-inch model
- P3 wide colour
- True Tone for comfortable viewing
- Full lamination for reduced reflectivity
- Anti-reflective coating for the lowest reflectivity in the industry
M3. Light it Up
The lightning‑fast M3 chip powers Apple Intelligence and brings breakout performance to iPad Air. With a powerful CPU, GPU and Neural Engine, it’s nearly 2x faster than iPad Air with M1 chip.[4] The GPU architecture brings advanced graphics whether you’re working, streaming, creating or gaming. All with amazing efficiency for all‑day battery life.[5]
A Chip that’s Ahead of the Game
The Apple-designed M3 chip features an 8‑core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores to power all types of workflows and creative tasks. Its 9‑core GPU delivers up to 40 per cent faster graphics performance than iPad Air with M1 chip and introduces Dynamic Caching, hardware‑accelerated ray tracing and hardware‑accelerated mesh shading for vibrant and realistic photos, videos and graphics.
- 8-core CPU
- 9-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
Advanced Neural Engine for Advanced AI Apps
Up to 60% Faster Neural Engine Performance than M1
The 16‑core Neural Engine makes iPad Air a powerful device for AI, delivering up to 60 per cent faster performance than iPad Air with M1 chip. M3 powers Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Wand in the Notes app. And it enables AI‑driven note‑taking in Goodnotes 6, next‑level video editing in Final Cut Pro for iPad and pro‑quality shot tracking in Onform: Video Analysis App.
Apple Intelligence Personal, Private, Powerful
iPad Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.
Images Wand in Notes
Apple Intelligence enables delightful ways to express yourself visually. Turn a rough sketch into a related image with Image Wand. And create new images based on descriptions, suggested concepts and even a person from your Photos library with Image Playground.
Writing Tools in Mail
Writing Tools help you find just the right words and transform the way you communicate. Proofread your text, rewrite different versions to get the right tone and summarise selected text with a tap.
Clean Up in Photos
With the Clean Up tool in the Photos app, you can easily remove unwanted distractions in your photos. Apple Intelligence identifies background objects so you can delete them with a tap for the perfect shot — while staying true to the original image.
Apple Intelligence protects your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of iPad through on-device processing, so it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger, Apple-designed server‑based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests while protecting your privacy.
iPadOS and Apps. Get Up to Something Wonderful
iPadOS is designed to let you do all the things you love easily and powerfully from first touch to finishing touches. Use multiple apps at the same time, write in any text field, and navigate quickly and efficiently using just your finger, Apple Pencil or the Magic Keyboard trackpad.
Do it All. All at Once
Stage manager lets you multitask effortlessly by allowing you to overlap and resize windows to look the way you want, so you can easily navigate between them. You can also group apps for specific tasks or projects and arrange them in your ideal layout.
Built‑in Apps for All the Essentials
iPad Air comes with powerful and capable apps designed to help you create, connect and get things done. Browse, edit and share your images and videos with Photos. Create dazzling presentations with Keynote and add style with Apple Pencil Pro, or magically solve complex equations in Maths Notes.
Amazing Apps for Any Ask
Apps can transform iPad Air into almost anything you need it to be. And with over a million apps on the App Store designed just for iPad, you’ll find the right app for whatever you want to do.
Apple Pencil Pro Engineered for Limitless Creativity
Apple Pencil sets the standard for how drawing, painting, handwriting and note-taking should feel — intuitive, precise and magical. All with pixel‑perfect precision, low latency, tilt sensitivity and support for palm rejection. And Apple Pencil Pro adds even more capabilities to bring your ideas to life like never before.[3]
Intuitive and Precise Creative Control
Squeeze. Apple Pencil Pro can sense when you squeeze it and brings up a palette, so you can quickly switch tools, line weights and colours.
Check out the video:
Barrel Roll
A gyroscope allows you to rotate Apple Pencil Pro for precise control of shaped pen and brush tools.
Check out the video:
Haptic Feedback
A custom haptic engine delivers precise feedback you can feel. When you squeeze or double‑tap, you’ll feel a light pulse confirming the action.
Check out the video:
Apple Pencil Hover
Preview exactly where your Apple Pencil will touch down on your display, and see a virtual shadow of your tool. So you can write, sketch and illustrate with even greater precision.
Double Tap
Quickly switch between tools, like a pen and eraser, with a double tap on Apple Pencil Pro.
Ready When Inspiration Strikes
Apple Pencil Pro pairs, charges and stores magnetically on the side of iPad Air. And if you lose or misplace it, you can easily locate your Apple Pencil Pro in the Find My app.
iPad Air works with Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C). Two great options for all kinds of creativity.
Magic Keyboard. The Keys to Your Best Work
Magic Keyboard is the perfect companion for iPad Air. It delivers an amazing typing experience and a trackpad for precision tasks in a sleek, portable design. The keyboard includes a 14‑key function row, a USB-C connector for pass‑through charging, and front and back protection for your iPad Air. The floating cantilever design smoothly adjusts to multiple viewing angles, and a large glass trackpad expands how you can work with iPadOS.[3]
Cameras Capture Your Imagination and Everything Else
Advanced front and back cameras make it easy to shoot and edit incredible content in a snap. Copy text in photos or videos and translate languages using Live Text. And Centre Stage makes all your video calls more dynamic.
- 12MP Center Stage camera for even better video calls
- 12MP Wide back camera with Smart HDR images and 4K video
Connectivity. Wait-less Wireless
Stay connected with blazing-fast Wi‑Fi. And with 5G mobile data capabilities on Wi‑Fi + Cellular models, you have the option to add a flexible data plan whenever you need it to browse the web, play games, stream movies and more.[6]
Blazing-fast Connections
Get incredibly fast Wi‑Fi with iPad Air. So you can stream, download and share at high speeds.[6]
Choosing 5G mobile data capabilities gives you the ultimate flexibility so you can connect to the fastest wireless networks, even if it’s just for a day or while you’re on holiday.[6]
iPad Air uses eSIM, enabling a fast, convenient and secure way to activate your mobile data plan directly on your device.[7]
Bluetooth 5.3 low-latency audio supports next-generation headsets and hearing aids that use Bluetooth LE.
Connect to Displays, Drives and Devices with USB‑C
USB‑C gives you fast, easy connections to your go‑to accessories like external displays, docks, drives and cameras. Perfect for quick transfers of large photos and videos.[3]
Notes:
1. Apple Intelligence is available in beta. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. For feature and language availability and system requirements.
2. The displays have rounded corners. When measured diagonally as a rectangle, the 13‑inch iPad Pro is 13 inches, the 11‑inch iPad Pro is 11.1 inches, the 13‑inch iPad Air is 12.9 inches, the 11‑inch iPad Air and iPad are 10.86 inches, and the iPad mini is 8.3 inches. Actual viewable area is less.
3. Accessories sold separately.
4. Testing conducted by Apple in January and February 2025 using pre-production iPad Air 11‑inch (M3) and iPad Air 13‑inch (M3) units as well as production iPad Air (5th generation) units. Tested with Procreate Dreams v1.0.14 by exporting a 29‑second project. Performance tests are conducted using specific iPad units and reflect the approximate performance of iPad Air.
5. Testing conducted by Apple in January and February 2025 using pre-production iPad Air 11‑inch (M3) and iPad Air 13‑inch (M3) units. Testing consisted of full battery discharge while performing each of the following tasks: video playback and internet browsing using Wi‑Fi or a mobile data network (cellular models subscribed to LTE and 5G networks). Video content was a repeated 2‑hour 23‑minute movie purchased from the iTunes Store. Internet over Wi‑Fi and mobile data network tests were conducted using dedicated web servers, browsing snapshot versions of 20 popular web pages. All settings were default except: Wi‑Fi was associated with a network (except for internet browsing over mobile data network); the Wi‑Fi feature Ask to Join Networks and Auto-Brightness were turned off; Brightness was set to 50%; and WPA2 encryption was enabled. Battery life depends on device settings, usage, network and many other factors. Battery tests are conducted using specific iPad units; actual results may vary.
6. Wi‑Fi 6E available in countries and regions where supported. Data plan required. 5G, Gigabit, LTE and Wi‑Fi calling are available in selected markets and through selected network providers. Speeds are based on theoretical throughput and vary based on site conditions and network. For details on 5G and LTE support, contact your provider.
7. Not all network providers support eSIM.
What's in the Box:
- USB‑C charge cable (1 metre)
Product Features:
- Digital zoom up to 5x
- Five-element lens
- Panorama (up to 63MP)
- Sapphire crystal lens cover
- Autofocus with focus pixels
- Smart HDR 4
- FaceTime video
- Centre Stage
- FaceTime audio
- Sensors: Touch ID, Three‐axis gyro, Accelerometer, Barometer, Ambient light sensor
