
iPad Pro features the powerful Apple M1 chip for next-level performance and all-day battery life.³ An immersive 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display for viewing and editing HDR photos and videos.¹ And a front camera with Center Stage keeps you in frame automatically during video calls. iPad Pro has pro cameras and a LiDAR Scanner for stunning photos, videos, and immersive AR. Thunderbolt for connecting to high-performance accessories. And you can add Apple Pencil for note-taking, drawing, and marking up documents, and the Magic Keyboard for a responsive typing experience and trackpad.⁴
A: I’m looking at this same situation as a possibility for myself, but haven’t received my new iPad Pro yet. I am going to throw out this as a possible workaround that may wor for Procreate users. When Procreate opens a file, it tries to create an editable file in the same location as the source file, and this is likely where the problem lies. Procreate may not be allowed to work with the external SSD freely because of security limitations in iPadOS. You can likely save or export the file to the external SSD, but you will almost certainly need to import the file back to the internal storage to work with it. This is almost certainly down to the sandboxing elements of iPadOS, which are much more extreme than MacOS. The actual hardware is fully capable of laptop/desktop style use and support of Thunderbolt compliant SSDs. Apple locks out higher level access to external devices because the iPad is an ultraportable and concealable device: i.e. an incredibly big security risk, as both a target and a tool. It’s gonna take some time for them to develop secure workarounds for external devices. In the meantime, as a workaround, try importing the file from the external SSD in Procreate. If that fails, try using the Files app to copy the file from the external SSD to somewhere on the internal storage, then import from that file back into Procreate. Either method should reduce the external access to a file read, which shouldn’t be a problem.
Q: Is this a good one to stream movies, etc?
A: Yes it works wonderful for streaming movies. I recently went on a trip and watched five hours worth of downloads from Netflix and it only used 20% of the power.
A: The latest model is currently the 5th generation.
Q: If this is the latest version, where is the M2 chip?
A: No it is M1.
Q: Can you put the apps and pics on the older iPad to the new iPad?
A: Yes if you backup to iCloud. There is an option in setup to make it like another device picked from the list of your backups. Did mine in less than 30 minutes and in a month of use I have not found anything missing. Using iCloud storage is (I think) $0.99 a month for the lowest cost option. I back up 3 iPads, 2 iPhones and an iPod using that plan.
A: On line. It is self-teaching and intuitive.
Q: Can you run Microsoft word, Excel, power point on Apple iPad Pro?
A: Microsoft word, Excel, Power point can be run on your IPad. You have to sign in to your Microsoft account and work online through Internet.