iPad 2020 review

More of the same for the iPad 2020.

iPad 2020 review
(Image: © Basil Kronfli)

Our Verdict

Despite its dated design, the new iPad is a great creative tool thanks to Apple Pencil support, plenty of power and decent battery life. That said, it isn’t worth upgrading from last year’s model, and if you do pick one up, opt for the 128GB storage option – 32GB just isn’t enough for a 2020 tablet.

For

  • Excellent software
  • Apple Pencil apps are great
  • Impressive battery life

Against

  • Expensive accessories
  • Unoriginal design
  • 32GB storage is paltry

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Apple’s confidence when it comes to its own product design sits somewhere between genius, inspirational and delusional. Its new iPhone SE (2020) carries forward a design which is a variation of that of an iPhone 6 (2014), and its latest iPad 10.2 could easily be mistaken for the original iPad Air (2013). 

Rather than hold this design-recycling against Apple though, we’re intent on taking each product on its own merits. With that in mind, while the new iPhone SE (2020) manages to hold up surprisingly well, the latest iPad 10.2 (2020) looks and feels dated. (Side note: if you're finding all these names confusing, check out our iPad generations article for an explainer)

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Apple iPad (32GB) 2020

Despite its dated design, the new iPad is a great creative tool thanks to Apple Pencil support, plenty of power and decent battery life. That said, it isn’t worth upgrading from last year’s model, and if you do pick one up, opt for the 128GB storage option – 32GB just isn’t enough for a 2020 tablet.

Basil Kronfli

Basil is a trained graphic designer and photography expert who geeks out over anything to do with digital imaging and sketching. Now a tech journalist and content director at a creative comms agency, he covers tech through a real-world lens, contributing to titles including Creative Bloq, Digital Camera World, Metro, T3, TechRadar and WIRED.

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