While a new iPad mini is expected before the end of 2026, a new report says you’ll need to wait longer for updates to the entry-level iPad, iPad Air, and iPad Pro.

The most recent rumors of the first update to the iPad mini since October 2024 have claimed that it will be released with an OLED screen before the end of 2026. Now according to Bloomberg, this update is the first of several iPad model refreshes.

Specifically, the report claims that Apple plans to release new iPads from the fall through to spring 2027:

• iPad Mini: October 2026
• iPad: Q1 2027
• iPad Air: spring 2027
• iPad Pro: spring 2027

Back in 2024, it was reported that Apple was planning an OLED iPad mini for release in 2026. To date, the higher-quality screen has solely been used in the iPad Pro, where it doesn’t appear to have been the success that Apple hoped for.

Nonetheless, Apple is said to be intending to eventually transition the whole iPad range over to OLED. The iPad mini, codenamed J510, is to be the first.

It’s not clear what could be the second to get the technology, though, as reports of updates to the rest of the iPad range do not specify their screen type. The report does say that the base iPad will not get OLED yet, and that seems likely given that this screen type would add to cost of that entry-level model.

Instead, the claim is that the new update to the base iPad, codenamed J581, is a faster processor. Apple is not expected to give it a major redesign.

There is also no word of a significant redesign for the iPad Air, whose next 11-inch and 13-inch models are codenamed J807 and J837.

Apple is also not expected to make significant visible changes to the iPad Pro, which the new report says will launch around the same time as the iPad Air. Separately, though, other recent reports have claimed that the iPad Pro will gain vapor chamber cooling in early 2027.

New iPad and iPad Air

The new report backs up rumors from December 2025 when an iOS code leak included references to an A19 iPad and M4 iPad Air. That M4 iPad Air was then released in March 2026, but the base iPad remains on the A16 processor.

The report of an A19 processor is significant, because it means the base iPad will gain support for Apple Intelligence. At present, it’s the only iPad model that doesn’t support it.

Since that March 2026 release of an M4 iPad Air, though, there have been further rumors of what is coming next for this model. In April 2026, for instance, there was a report that the next iPad Air would indeed get an OLED display.

The report said that this iPad Air will feature a lower-cost OLED display than the one in the current iPad Pro. It was also claimed that Samsung is due to start mass production of the screen in December 2026, for a launch round March 2027.