The next iPad mini won’t have as much of an issue with “jelly scrolling.”
"Jelly scrolling” refers to screen tearing, where images and text on one side of the screen can appear to be tilted downward due to having a different refresh rate. When it’s happening, it can seem like one side of the screen is responding faster to your touch than the other.
The problem first popped up in the 6th generation of the iPad mini in September 2021. At the time, users speculated the issue was a software bug or manufacturing defect; however, Apple said it was “normal behavior” for LCD screens that refresh line-by-line.
According to a Weibo leaker, the seventh-generation iPad mini will have a rotated screen assembly to reduce the effect of the issue on the device, MacRumors reports. The issue tends to only happen when the device is in portrait mode.
Beyond improving the jelly scrolling issue, the same leaker says that the newest version of the device will use the A16 Bionic chip and will have improvements to its front camera.
The seventh-generation iPad mini is expected to be announced later this month. Beyond the new tablet, we also expect to see a sixth generation of the iPad Air packing an M2 chip as well as an updated version of the Apple Pencil that offers charging via USB-C rather than Apple’s proprietary Lightning cable.