Apple's New iPadPro New Features and Mysterious Sensor

TapTechNews May 22nd news, Apple has released a new generation of iPadPro this month, equipped with the M4 chip and adopting a thinner design. Careful users may notice that Apple quietly removed the rear ultra-wide-angle camera, leaving only the wide-angle lens and LiDAR scanner. In addition, there is an extra hole on the rear camera module of the new iPadPro. Is this a newly added mysterious sensor? The answer is yes.

The rear camera module of the old iPadPro has a wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle dual lenses, as well as a LiDAR scanner, flash, and microphone. While the new model has less of the ultra-wide-angle lens and is replaced by a sensor. So what exactly does this sensor do?

According to the user guide of the new iPadPro, this sensor is an ambient light sensor. Although the iPad also has a similar sensor above the front display for controlling the automatic brightness and True Tone display functions, Apple's addition of a rear ambient light sensor this time may be to improve the camera performance.

TapTechNews noticed that at the launch event, Apple mentioned that the new M4 iPadPro is equipped with a new generation of 'adaptive True tone flash', which can detect the ambient light conditions and combine with hardware and artificial intelligence technology to improve the document scanning effect and eliminate the shadow problem. It is speculated that the rear ambient light sensor may be used to adjust the color of the 'True tone flash' to obtain a better effect when shooting documents.

As for whether Apple also plans to use this sensor for other functions that have not been released yet, let's wait and see.