If you’re an iPad mini 6 owner with an eye for detail, you’ve likely encountered the so-called ‘jelly scrolling’ problem.
Essentially, text and images look tilted as you scroll thanks to varying refresh rates, and while Apple has argued that this is just normal LCD screen behavior, it proved suitably annoying for some consumers to attempt a class action lawsuit over it.
Good news for potential mini buyers put off by the concept, the tipster Instant Digital has claimed that Apple has got the problem fixed in time for the iPad mini 7. Posting on the Chinese social network Weibo, the leaker claims that a change in the way the screen is assembled means that the “phenomenon” has “improved.”
Obviously that’s a machine translation, and machine translations can be imperfect, so we’ll have to wait and see exactly how noticeable jelly scrolling is on a future model. That’s if it’s improved at all — while Instant Digital’s predictions have proved accurate in the past, this remains just a rumor for now.
In the same short post, Instant Digital states that we can also expect improvements to the front camera but that “the details are not very clear.” For reference, the current model comes with a 12MP ultrawide selfie snapper.
Instant Digital claims these aren’t the only tablets Apple will be refreshing before the month is out, and the tipster reckons that we’ll see an 11th-generation iPad and the iPad Air 6 too. The leaker doesn’t go into any detail about those tablets, however, literally just mentioning the product names and nothing more.
But according to Mark Gurman, we shouldn’t expect any great shakes from them. The Bloomberg reporter, when revealing big changes for the 2024 iPad Pro, stated that he doesn’t think we’ll see “anything other than minor updates to the company’s other tablets before then”.
