Just took the plunge on an #iPad mini.
I’ve never particularly managed to have an iPad as part of my workflow for anything. I had one of the early 12 inch iPad Pros (from work) for a while, and I seldom used it.
This mini is mainly because I’m building an app that’ll run on iPad (so I need to test), but I thought maybe with the mini, if I take it with me all the time (hopefully it fits in my handbag), then I might end up using it more.
Nov 8, 2026, 3:14 PM@amyworrall I still have a 6th Gen I bought with the AppleSilicon DTK refund money. It's the only iPad I have ever used for longer than 5 minutes, but like you, I dont have any workflow that relies on it. My Mac and Phone are fine.
@amyworrall I love my last-gen mini and planning to upgrade. Something about the size just makes me use it a lot in place of my phone for online reading, games, socials. Also just barely fits in a lot of my pants pockets.
I hope you like it!
@ChristoDeluxe Using it now, and I’m loving it so far :)
It seems huge to me, since somehow in my mind it’s in the ‘big phone’ category rather than ‘small tablet’.
Keyboard is confusing me though, I keep hitting the swap language button by mistake.
Nov 8, 2026, 11:56 PM@amyworrall Did you get nanotexture screen?
@glebd Yup! Liking that so far too :)
@amyworrall That’s interesting. I specifically got the 13” to be able to try iPad features actual iPad users would use (all those windowing features and such, which I think you won’t get on a Mini?)
@helge The latest mini does support windowing! I’m not sure it’s as useful as on the bigger ipads, but as far as I can tell it works the same.