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 through a traditional keynote but it will do it as it has done with the new MacBook Air presented this week: through press releases and website updates. a new rumor indicates that the new iPad Air and iPad Pro will have a front camera in horizontal format, with the aim of avoiding the decentering of video calls when we move the iPad from a vertical position to a horizontal position.
A horizontal camera on iPads to solve the lack of centering of video calls
We have been without an iPad for more than a year and it seems that the time to announce the new generation is getting closer and closer. It is expected that over the next week Apple will issue 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 with these new devices. The news will come especially in the iPad Air, which is expected to be a new 12,9-inch model, keeping the rest of the hardware the same so as not to clash with that of the Pro models.
Additionally, a new rumor published in Weibo by user Instant Digital points out that All new models will have a front camera in a horizontal position. That is, the front FaceTime camera will be on one of the sides instead of 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 them is that Video calls are off-center when we do them in horizontal format, because the camera is moved to one side being at the top.
This rumor makes all the sense in the world for several reasons. Firstly, because it is not the first time that there has been speculation about this great change in the design of the iPad since In one of the betas of iOS 17.4 a change was introduced in the code from the launch of the iPad where the user was asked to place the iPad "in a horizontal position with the camera at the top of the screen" to start using the device. Besides, Apple already confirmed at the time that the lack of focus in video calls was a problem that they had detected, so perhaps in this new range of iPad the camera will change location. A big change for the design of the iPad.