New iPad Pro 2018 release date, UK price and full specs REVEALED by Apple

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your iPad there’s some good news as a new fully refreshed Pro has just been revealed by Apple.

This latest product features some of the biggest changes yet to this popular tablet including a fully edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display which covers almost the entire front of iPad.

This huge design change means there’s no home button with users now unlocking the device via Face ID facial recognition.

There’s two sizes, 11-inch and 12.9-inch, with both now featuring a smaller footprint due to that clever screen design.

In fact, the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro places the largest display of any iPad into a more portable package — a massive 25 percent reduction in volume.

Both models are just 5.9 mm thin — the thinnest iPad design ever — making iPad Pro now even easier to take with you.

Apple’s update includes a faster A12X Bionic processor which not only makes the tablet far more powerful but much more efficient.

The US technology firm says this chip is powerful enough to cope with real photoshop and makes the Pro faster than over 90 percent of portable PCs on the market.

Another major change is a new way of charging with USB-C arriving on the platform for the first time.

This should mean faster charging times and the ability to plug in more accessories more easily plus you’ll now be able to charge your iPhone straight from the tablet.

Popular accessories such as the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard case are also getting refreshed with the digital stylus now attaching magnetically to the side of the device.

The Apple Pencil also now gets charged wirelessly the moment it clips to the tablet and includes a feature where you can double tap the stylus to change tools on the screen.

The iPad Pro arrives in 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes with prices starting from £799 for the 64GB option with the 1TB model costing £1,549.

“The new iPad Pro is a huge step forward for powerful, creative, mobile computing; it has an all-new thinner design, speeds through projects with the super-fast A12X Bionic chip and unlocks with a glance using Face ID in any orientation — while you’re sitting or standing, with iPad Pro on your desk or lap, with the new Smart Keyboard Folio and new Apple Pencil,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

“There has never been a mobile device anything like the new iPad Pro; it has a gorgeous edge-to-edge Liquid Retina display that curves into the corners, breakthrough performance that outperforms most laptops, Face ID, support for the new Smart Keyboard Folio and new Apple Pencil, advanced new cameras and sensors for the best AR experiences ever in any device, a high-speed USB-C connector, louder speakers, faster wireless and more, all packed into a thinner device that has all-day battery life and is 25 percent smaller in volume.”