![]() The SE name stands for “older hardware design at the lowest price in the lineup”. It makes sense if you now think of the 9th-gen iPad as the iPad SE - just without the “SE” name. Thus the 9th-gen iPads remain, unchanged in price at $330 for 64 GB and $480 for 256 GB. The new 10th-gen iPads do not replace the home-button/square-corner-display 9th-gen iPads, because the new iPads cost $450 for 64 GB and $600 for 256 GB. ![]() (The adapter will henceforth be included in the box with new Pencil 1’s.) So Apple now sells a $9 USB-C to Lightning adapter - with female ports on both sides - just for using an Apple Pencil 1 with these new iPads. And, like all the other all-screen / no-home-button iPads, it moves from Lightning to USB-C - but, bizarrely (on first consideration at least), is compatible only with the Apple Pencil 1, which has a male Lightning plug that is required both for charging the Pencil and pairing it with an iPad. It looks a lot like the 5th-gen iPad Air that debuted in March this year, with one very significant difference: Apple moved the front-facing camera to the long (“landscape”) side, which positions the camera correctly when docked to a keyboard - which is exactly how most people who rely on the front-facing iPad cameras want to use them. It comes in some pretty fun colors - yellow, pink, and blue - along with plain old silver. It gets the A14 chip that debuted with the iPhone 12 lineup two years ago, and has Touch ID on its side button. The new 10th-generation (no adjective) iPad moves to the modern all-screen / no-home-button design style. (The remote is otherwise unchanged - including no support for Find My, alas, which is disappointing for the one Apple product I most frequently misplace.) And we finally have a dead canary in the “ Is the iPhone switching from Lightning to USB-C next year?” coal mine: the Apple TV Remote now charges via USB-C. The $130 model doesn’t have an Ethernet port and doesn’t support Thread wireless networking - the open protocol for smart home gadgets backed by Matter. Both now have the A15 chip that debuted in last year’s iPhone 13 lineup. Apple has finally dropped the long-outdated 1080p Apple TV and now sells just two models, at reasonable prices: a 64 GB model for $130, and a 128 GB one for $150. On the Apple TV front, the news is (almost) all good and the lineup actually makes more sense now. Let’s see if I’ve got every crooked detail straight from this week’s Apple product updates. The links above have alternative methods and information about unpairing if the need arises.The iPad Lineup Is, Like, Growing Out Its Bangs or Something and Looks a Little Weird Right Now, but Apple TV Has Been Going to the Gym and Looks Great Friday, 21 October 2022 You should see a chain-link style lock appear in the center of your screen for a moment. Your Apple Remote is now paired with your computer.Press and hold the Menu and Next/Fast-forward buttons simultaneously on the remote for 5 seconds.Point the remote at the infrared sensor on the front of your Mac.Get very close to your Mac (about 3 or 4 inches away).Pairing a remote with a Mac isn’t too dissimilar: Now, the device can only take commands from that remote, and that remote will only give commands to the device. If the pairing is successful, the Apple TV will display a chainlink symbol. * On an earlier, white Apple Remote, press and hold the Menu and Next/Fast-forward buttons for 6 seconds. * On an aluminum Apple Remote, press and hold the Menu and Right buttons for 6 seconds. Thankfully, the boys and girls in Cupertino thought of this, and an Apple remote can be paired to a computer or Apple TV, allowing other devices in the vicinity to ignore its input.Īpple has directions to pair a remote with the Apple TV and any Mac that has an IR port, but here are the highlights: Pairing with an Apple TVĪccording to Apple, the first steps depend on what type of remote you have: Both have IR ports and can be used with Apple’s remote, but as IR isn’t the most exact thing in the world, a single remote can fire commands on both devices. In my living room, I have a Mac mini and an Apple TV in my entertainment center.
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