After a three-year gap, Apple has finally updated the iPad mini. Here's what's changed in the seventh-gen model compared to the previous release.

Apple just announced the new iPad mini 7, which comes with an upgraded processor, and both Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Intelligence support. But if you don't care about all that, consider an iPad mini 6.

The seventh-generation iPad mini looks mostly identical to the sixth-generation version, with a power-button-mounted Touch ID sensor and a slim-bezeled display. But Apple has swapped out the A15 Bionic chip for the Apple A17 Pro, the same processor it used in the iPhone 15 Pro last year.