If you're curious to find out which iPad model you've got, either considering you're selling it, or because you lot desire to know if particular software will piece of work on information technology, you've come to the correct place. In this article we'll assist you find out which iPad yous have.

Apple tree tends to downplay the version numbers of its tablets, and in any case information technology isn't as uncomplicated every bit iPad 1 to iPad 21. At that place accept been a total of 21 iPad models over the years, which we can divide into four sub-brands:

  • iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, iPad ix.7in (2017), iPad 9.7in (2018), iPad 10.2in (2019)
  • iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad Air (2019)
  • iPad mini, iPad mini 2 with Retina display, iPad mini 3, iPad mini 4, iPad mini (2019)
  • iPad Pro 12.9in (2015), iPad Pro 9.7in (2016), iPad Pro 10.5in (2017), iPad Pro 12.9in (2017), iPad 11in (2018), iPad 12.9in (2018)

Making things even more difficult, the device you lot own may have been advertised every bit only 'iPad' in the shop. Simply don't worry! In this commodity we'll help you lot work out which model and generation of iPad you've got.

Expect in Settings

The easiest way to find out which iPad y'all've got is to open the Settings app and check in General > About. In the top set up of entries y'all'll see one for Model Name. Like shooting fish in a barrel! The screenshot below, for example, was taken on an iPad Pro 11in.

That's probably answered your question already, simply you may exist interested to note that below this there's a separate entry for Model Number. In fact, tapping this toggles between 2 dissimilar numbers, one outset with an A and the other probably kickoff with an 1000. The A number is more useful when determining the identity and specs of a tablet, every bit nosotros'll see in the next section.

How to identify which iPad you have: Settings

Check your iPad's model number

What if your iPad is broken or out of power, or for some other reason yous can't go into the Settings app? Nosotros can find out in other ways.

Now, Apple tree doesn't simply write the generation and model proper name on the back of each iPad, considering that would be far besides easy. Simply you volition find a model number marked there, and yous can apply this to work out the rest. This model number is the same as the A number that we saw in the Settings app before.

On the iPad below, for example, the A number (shown in the zoomed-in inset at the meridian correct) is A1652, which tells us information technology's an iPad Pro 12.9in (2015) with cellular.

Which iPad do I have: iPad Pro rear with model number inset

Once you've found your device's A number - either by looking on the back, or by checking the Settings app - you tin can easily tell which iPad it is by checking it confronting the following table. We've included other clues which may help if y'all tin't observe the model number (such as screen sizes, types of ports, colour options and and so on), and these are explained in more than item below the table.

iPad model Version number Notes
iPad (aka iPad ane) A1219 (Wi-Fi version)
A1337 (cellular version)		 Mid-size screen (nine.7in diagonally). Old 30-pin port at the bottom. No camera apertures. Only available with black forepart (back is silver). Introduced April 2010.
iPad 2 A1395 (Wi-Fi)
A1397, A1396 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (nine.7in). Former xxx-pivot port. Bachelor with black or white front (back is silver). Introduced March 2011.
iPad 3 (aka iPad tertiary generation or 'New iPad') A1416 (Wi-Fi)
A1430, A1403 (cellular)

Mid-size screen (nine.7in). Old 30-pin port. Available in blackness or white. Retina display. Introduced March 2012.
iPad 4 (aka iPad fourth generation) A1458 (Wi-Fi)
A1459, A1460 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (9.7in). Lightning port at the bottom. Bachelor in blackness or white. Retina brandish. Introduced November 2012.
iPad 9.7in (2017) (aka iPad, iPad 2017 or iPad fifth generation) A1822 (Wi-Fi)
A1823 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (9.7in). Lightning port at the lesser. Available in silver, aureate or Infinite Greyness (black). Retina display. Introduced March 2017.
iPad 9.7in (2018) (aka iPad, iPad 2018 or iPad sixth generation) A1893 (Wi-Fi)
A1954 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (9.7in). Lightning port. Available in silvery, gilded or Space Grey. Retina display. Introduced March 2018.
iPad 10.2in (2019) (aka iPad 7th generation) A2197 (Wi-Fi)
A2200, A2198 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (ten.2in). Lightning port. Available in silver, gold or Space Gray. Retina brandish. Introduced September 2019.
iPad Air (aka iPad Air 1) A1474 (Wi-Fi)
A1475 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (ix.7in). Lightning port. Bachelor in black or white. Retina brandish. Introduced November 2013.
iPad Air ii A1566 (Wi-Fi)
A1567 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (9.7in). Lightning port. Bear upon ID fingerprint sensor on Domicile button. Bachelor in silverish, gold or Space Gray. Retina display. Introduced Oct 2014.
iPad Air (2019) (aka iPad Air tertiary generation) A2152 (Wi-Fi)
A2123, A2153 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (10.5in). Lightning port. Touch ID fingerprint sensor on Habitation push button. Available in argent, gilded or Space Greyness. Retina display. Introduced March 2019.
iPad mini (aka iPad mini ane) A1432 (Wi-Fi)
A1454, A1455 (cellular)		 Smaller screen (7.9in - about the size of a paperback). Lightning port. Bachelor in blackness or white. Introduced October 2012.
iPad mini ii (aka iPad mini with Retina display) A1489 (Wi-Fi)
A1490 (cellular)		 Smaller screen (vii.9in). Lightning port. Available in black or white. Retina display. Introduced Nov 2013.
iPad mini 3 A1599 (Wi-Fi)
A1600 (cellular)		 Smaller screen (vii.9in). Lightning port. Touch ID fingerprint sensor on Home push button. Available in silvery, gold or Space Greyness. Retina display. Introduced October 2014.
iPad mini iv A1538 (Wi-Fi)
A1550 (cellular)		 Smaller screen (seven.9in). Lightning port. Touch ID fingerprint sensor on Habitation push. Available in silver, gold or Space Grey. Retina display. Introduced September 2015.
iPad mini (2019) (aka iPad mini 5th generation) A2133 (Wi-Fi)
A2124, A2126 (cellular)		 Smaller screen (seven.9in). Lightning port. Bear on ID fingerprint sensor on Habitation button. Available in silver, gold or Space Grey. Retina display. Introduced March 2019.
iPad Pro 12.9in (2015) A1584 (Wi-Fi)
A1652 (cellular)		 Large screen (12.9in). Lightning port. There's a smart connector for the Smart Keyboard on the lefthand side. Available in silverish, aureate or Space Gray. Retina display. Four speakers (two at the top, two at the lesser). Introduced September 2015.
iPad Pro 9.7in (2016) A1673 (Wi-Fi)
A1674, A1675 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (9.7in). Lightning port. Smart connector for the Smart Keyboard on the left. Available in silver, gilt, Space Grey or Rose Gold (pink). Retina brandish. Four speakers. Introduced March 2016.
iPad Pro 10.5in (2017) (aka iPad Pro second generation) A1701 (Wi-Fi)
A1709 (cellular)		 Mid-size screen (ten.5in). Lightning port. Smart connector on the lefthand side. Available in silver, gilded, Space Grey or Rose Gold (pinkish). Retina display. Four speakers. Introduced June 2017.
iPad Pro 12.9in (2017) (aka iPad Pro 12.9in second generation) A1670 (Wi-Fi)
A1671 (cellular)

Large screen (12.9in). Lightning port. Smart connector on the lefthand side. Available in silver, gold or Space Grayness. Retina display. Iv speakers. Introduced June 2017.
iPad Pro 11in (2018) (aka iPad Pro third generation) A1980 (Wi-Fi)
A2013, A1934 (cellular)

Mid-size screen (11in). USB-C port. Bachelor in silvery or Space Grey, and with 64GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of storage. 4 speakers. Introduced Oct 2018.
iPad Pro 12.9in (2018) (aka iPad Pro 12.9in third generation) A1876 (Wi-Fi)
A2014, A1895 (cellular)

Large screen (12.9in). USB-C port. Available in silverish or Space Grayness, and with 64GB, 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of storage. Four speakers. Introduced October 2018.

Home push button

We'll start looking now at physical clues. The most obvious is the Home button under the screen - or rather, the lack of one.

The iPad Pro models from 2018 do not have Dwelling buttons, instead offering an nearly all-screen design. It looks like this:

How to identify which iPad you have: No Home button

If there'due south a Dwelling button under the display, you lot've got an iPad Pro from 2017 or earlier, or a non-Pro model. The Home push looks like this:

How to identify which iPad you have: Home button

USB-C, Lightning or 30-pivot dock

Another elementary fashion of telling autonomously certain iPads - especially the iPad 3 and iPad 4, which are otherwise pretty much identical - is whether they have a USB-C, Lightning or former 30-pin dock connector at the bottom.

Here'southward a USB-C port. The only iPads that have this are the 2018 iPad Pros.

How to identify which iPad model you have: USB-C port

Here's what the Lightning port looks like.

Which iPad do I have: iPad Lightning connector

And here's the one-time xxx-pin dock, which is noticeably wider.

How to identify which iPad you have: 30-pin dock

The Lightning port was launched in September 2012, then if your iPad has an older 30-pivot connector it's a flake of a golden oldie.

Speaker setup

A existent giveaway for the iPad Pro range is iv-speaker audio.

All other iPad models are express to twin-speaker audio, with these 2 speakers bundled either side of the Lightning (or on older models 30-pin) dock at the bottom. But the four iPad Pro models each have iv speakers, with two at the bottom and another two at the pinnacle.

If your iPad has speaker grills at the opposite end to the Home push and then it'south definitely a Pro.

How to identify which iPad you have: Four speaker audio

Retina display

If your iPad comes with a Retina display the resolution of the screen will be much meliorate than an iPad that doesn't have a Retina brandish. However, if y'all aren't comparing 2 iPads side by side information technology's unlikely yous volition be able to tell whether you lot have 1 or non.

The Retina display became standard on the iPad after it was introduced on the third-generation iPad in March 2012. This model was quickly replaced afterwards that year because although it offered LTE 4G in the US, the blazon of LTE didn't work in many other territories including the U.k.. For more than data on this, encounter What is a Retina display?

3G, 4G or but Wi-Fi

Some iPads are Wi-Fi-but, and some also offer mobile connectivity, equally long as you have a SIM. Yous can quickly tell if your iPad is capable of mobile connectivity by looking for the SIM card slot on the side. If you see one then it's a Wi-Fi + cellular model. If non, then it's Wi-Fi-simply.

Equally we simply mentioned, the third-generation iPad offered LTE 4G but simply in the United states. If you wanted 4G here in the Great britain you had to await for the iPad four which came out later in 2012. If you bought your Wi-Fi & cellular iPad at the end of 2012 or later on 2013 then chances are you have 4G - even if it's not offered in your area.

Storage

You'll be able to tell how much storage your iPad has by looking on the dorsum of the device; information technology will be written just below the word iPad. Most iPads offer 32GB, 64GB, 128GB or 256GB, but the Pro models become every bit high as 512GB or even (if it'south a 2018 model) 1TB.

Alternatively yous tin go to Settings > General > Virtually and check abreast where it says capacity. If your iPad has 1TB of storage, information technology must be from the 2018 generation of iPad Pro models - so you merely take to measure the screen and observe out if it's the 11in or the 12.9in version.

Other than this, there take been such a wide range of storage offerings over the twelvemonth (with certain offerings discontinued later a while) that it's much easier to use the model number.

And that's it - hopefully by now you've worked out which model you lot've got. Finding out which iPad yous've got tin be useful when trying to work out if an app is uniform with information technology, or if yous'll be able to run the next version of iPadOS.

You volition too desire to know which model it is if you lot're thinking of selling your iPad and getting a new one - in which case you'll besides want to check our iPad buying guide and roundup of the best iPad deals in the Britain.