New iPad Air and iPad Pro could have landscape-format front camera

Over the next few weeks we will have among us the new iPad Air and iPad Pro. Apparently, Apple does not plan to announce these new devices via a traditional keynote but will do so as it did with the new MacBook Air presented this same week. : through press releases and website updates. a new rumor indicates that the new iPad Air and iPad Pro will have a horizontal format front camera,

in order to avoid off-centering video calls when moving the iPad from a vertical to a horizontal position.

A horizontal camera on iPad to compensate for the lack of centering of video calls

We’ve been without an iPad for over a year and it seems like the time to announce the new generation is getting closer and closer. It is expected that during the next week Apple will publish a press release with the news of the iPad Air and iPad Pro, in addition to updating the website with several videos to show the progress of these new devices. The news will come especially in the iPad Air, which should be a new 12.9-inch model, keeping the rest of the hardware the same so as not to conflict with that of the Pro models.

Additionally, a new rumor posted on Weibo by user Instant Digital suggests that All new models will have a front camera in a horizontal position.

In other words, the front FaceTime camera will be on one of the sides rather than on the top as until now since the launch of the iPad 2. This could have been decided this way for several reasons, but one of between them is that Video calls are off-center when done in horizontal format because the camera is shifted to one side being at the top.

This rumor makes all the sense in the world for several reasons. First of all, because it is not the first time that there is speculation about this big change in the design of the iPad since in one of the beta versions of iOS 17.4 a change was introduced in the iPad launch code where the user was prompted to place the iPad “horizontally with the camera at the top of the screen” to start using the device. Furthermore, Apple had already confirmed at the time that lack of concentration in video calls was an issue they had detected, so maybe in this new range of iPads the camera will change location. A big change for the design of the iPad.