Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Look, I get it. The iPad Pro isn’t cheap (though I argue in my review that it’s good value), so I can see why you’d think it might be good to save $299 by using your old Magic Keyboard with a new Pro. My advice: honestly, don’t do it.
Apple iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard. The new iPad Pro has a number of design changes, including being unbelievably thin, having a slightly bigger display and a front-facing camera which sits in the landscape edge instead of the short one. These changes alone have meant that the magnets inside the iPad Pro have moved or changed— Marques Brownlee has an elegant look at how the changes have manifested themselves.
So, while the old and new iPad Pro have similar dimensions, the magnet changes mean that the old Magic Keyboard no longer fits in place. One user, Jane Manchun Wong , has managed to make this work, as they revealed on X. If you take a look at this video you’ll see that it works.
.. but it looks truly horrible.
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Neve.
