iPad mini 6 looks stunning in new renders based on rumors
Last year, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that the iPad mini 6, packing an increased 8.5-inch screen, would emerge in the first half of 2021.
While that timescale is looking pretty unlikely now, a 2021 release date still appears to be on the cards, and leaker Jon Prosser has collated various bits of intel into a series of new renders drawn by RendersbyIan.
Prosser has a mixed track record, as evidenced by his incorrect prediction that the MacBook Pro 2021 would launch at WWDC 2021, but he has offered enough correct predictions to make these renders worth a look.
The images you’re seeing here are compiled based on alleged hands-on pictures, schematics, CAD designs and more. The result is an iPad mini 6 that’s more in line with the recent design of the iPad Pro, which perhaps isn’t surprising given the slightly dated look of the current iPad mini, which doesn’t deviate too much from the 2015 version.
Gone are the thick “chin” and “forehead” bezels, replaced by a much thinner frame all the way around. This also means, as previous rumors suggested, that the home button will finally be retired too, but that doesn’t mean the introduction of Face ID. Instead, Touch ID could be retained, but relocated to the power button, just as it was for the most recent iPad Air.
