
True Tone technology subtly adjusts the white balance onscreen to match the colour temperature of the light around you, so images on the display look as natural as on a printed page. The result is ultra-smooth scrolling and incredible responsiveness on the display, whether you’re using your finger or Apple Pencil. ProMotion technology automatically adjusts the display refresh rate up to 120 Hz (twice the rate of typical LCD displays) to the optimal rate for the content. Every Liquid Retina XDR display is also calibrated at the factory for colour, brightness, gamma and white point for a consistent visual experience. The result is rich and vibrant colour that’s also used in the digital cinema industry. The colour gamut afforded by the P3 primaries is larger than sRGB, offering richer and more saturated colours, especially with certain reds, yellows and greens. The Liquid Retina XDR display delivers P3 wide colour. Transitional characteristics of local dimming zones, such as a slight blur or colour change while scrolling against black backgrounds, are normal behaviour. These proprietary algorithms coordinate the mini-LED and LCD layers across transitions to deliver the optimal visual experience.

This display is designed to deliver crisp front-of-screen performance with its incredibly small custom mini-LED design, industry leading mini-LED density, large number of individually controlled local dimming zones, and custom optical films that shape the light while maintaining image fidelity and extreme brightness and contrast.Īdditionally, custom algorithms run on the advanced display engine of the M1 chip, working at the pixel level to control the mini-LED and LCD layers of the display separately, treating them as two distinct displays. The Liquid Retina XDR display improves on the trade-offs of typical local dimming systems, where the extreme brightness of LEDs may cause a slight blooming effect because the LED zones are larger than the LCD pixel size. This delivers incredibly deep blacks directly next to bright image areas, achieving a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. These mini-LEDs are grouped into an array of over 2,500 individually controlled local dimming zones. Unlike the previous design that takes light emitting from one edge of the display and evenly distributes it across the entire back, the Liquid Retina XDR display uses over 10,000 custom-designed mini-LEDs spread uniformly across the entire back of the display, delivering higher LED density than any other display of its kind. It can also support up to 1,600 nits for highlights in up to 40 per cent of the screen area when the rest of that image is black or at brightness up to 600 nits. The Liquid Retina XDR display can support up to 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness. The all-new, 2D mini-LED backlighting system with individually controlled local dimming zones was the best choice for delivering the extremely high full-screen brightness and contrast ratio, and off-axis colour accuracy, that creative professionals depend on for their workflows. To achieve Extreme Dynamic Range requires an entirely new display architecture on iPad Pro.

The 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display has an IPS LCD panel supporting a resolution of 2732x2048 pixels for a total of 5.6 million pixels with 264 pixels per inch.
