Apple·tablet
iPad Pro M2
Based on 27 credible posts from Hacker News & Bluesky. 2 filtered out as bot-like or off-topic.
Medium confidenceA solid sample; expect small shifts as more owners post. How we score
Scored November 11, 2026
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Owner reviews
Overall owner mood
Owners are split: 37% of 27 reviews are positive, 41% negative, and the rest mixed or neutral. Praise centers on controls & input. The most common complaint is software & ai (5 owners). Owners with 6+ months of use are more positive (80%), which suggests it holds up well.
What owners like
Controls & input praised by 3 owners (1 disagree)
“The Apple Pencil could send hover events, though, which meant I had a fun week navigating the WordPress admin interface using the Pencil instead of the trackpad.”
What owners complain about
Software & AI raised by 5 owners (1 disagree)
“just strange bugs on ipad, when tapping a text field the keyboard pops up, then suddenly disappears and the pops up again...”
Performance raised by 2 owners
Sound raised by 2 owners (1 disagree)
“It sounds like a faulty line of hardware on the M2 Air then.”
What owners talk about
- Software & AI1 praise · 5 complain
- Controls & input3 praise · 1 complain
- Sound1 praise · 2 complain
- Performance0 praise · 2 complain
Built from the reviews themselves — every quote links to the owner who wrote it.
Every credible owner review, most detailed first. Bots, off-topic comments, and ones that say nothing about using it are left out.
I've been using a 12.9" M2 iPad Pro as a daily driver for six months. It is almost perfect - the only big issue I have is a problem in WebKit where a two-finger-tap on a trackpad procs both the system contextual menu and the web app context menu. [...] Here's the issue in bugzilla: Outside of that, I love using it and actively prefer it over a regular desktop OS for all tasks outside of software development (and with the bug fixed even that would be better)
[...] ios performance in scrolling and loading (especially on my ipad pro m2) is unbearably slow, just stutters everywhere when loading a page in the background 2. [...] on ipad and ios the tab overview display scrolling is absolutely appalling like 4fps level slow... [...] on desktop performance is also extremely slow compared to chrome, its night and day 6. battery usage is so bad on ipad, just leaving some tabs open they run down the battery and chug memory (i know this is more a web thing, but they should at least freeze tabs in the background or make it an option) 7. just strange bugs on ipad, when tapping a text field the keyboard pops up, then suddenly disappears and the pops up again... just a terrible app etc etc lots of paper cuts, but the performance issues are the biggest for me... [...]
Browser use on the modern web is enough to put you in swap territory early and often on 8GB of RAM. My much more RAM efficient M2 iPad Pro with the non-desktop OS and 8GB of RAM frequently has to page out apps I had open two minutes ago if I’m doing anything with the web and like one or two other applications. This things eventual replacement in like 4 or 5 years is going to need twice or thrice the RAM for me to consider it an upgrade.
[...] It sounds like a faulty line of hardware on the M2 Air then. [...] We ourselves have iPad Pro M2's without these issues which we both use all day every day. [...] YMMV but they just work for us and the software, which not perfect, is probably the least shit out there. [...]
The M2 iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. I got it so that I could do some writing and note-taking away from my main work computer. [...] I learned this the hard way when I was traveling with just my iPad and somebody sent me a ZIP file that had a hidden file in it (in the UNIX sense, i.e, with a name starting with a period). [...] For a while the Magic Keyboard's trackpad cursor didn't send hover events to web pages in Safari, which meant some webapps were unusable. The Apple Pencil could send hover events, though, which meant I had a fun week navigating the WordPress admin interface using the Pencil instead of the trackpad. [...] You can't play more than one sound source at a time. [...]
Tangent, but related; I wish Apple would now stop shaving mm off the iPad's thickness and start improving battery life. [...] I think it's the only compute device Apple sell that hasn't increased its Apple-rated battery runtime in the last 14 years. I had zero complaints frankly about the previous generation M2 iPad Pro's thickness, it was already impressively thin! I'd much, much rather see battery runtime go up at this stage. [...] More battery is more headroom to run heavy applications or games away from a plug socket. [...]
I've got an M2 iPad Pro, running 16.3.1 and jailbroken with UTM HV. [...] It tends to be quite buggy and crashes a lot, I've tested Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora 40. Overall, it's cool but too buggy for me to use daily.
[...] It worked great for six months in which I regularly slept and waked up early, did spanish vocabulary anki sessions, and no phone during remote work (“no phone for two hours” task,) etc., until I used all my point for a M2 IPad Pro which was the ultimate reward I set for myself from the very start.
Have you considered getting a last-gen iPad Pro (M2) instead, if you can find one? I did that last summer, I tried the OLED one but I didn't like it, and the Air is thicker and has darker and worse screen… so I got the previous Pro, and I really like it.
Yesterday someone accused me of shilling for reMarkable because I post so much about the Paper Pro. No, I just really love this piece of tech. Counterpoint: I bought an iPad Pro M2 12.9" in 2022 and I will definitely never purchase another Apple product.
iPad is pretty good to draw on. I've been using an iPad Pro M2 since 2022 Also this came out great! Love how you draw butt's c:
My iPad Pro M2 takes around 30 seconds to solve it in Safari, while my Mac Studio solves it in about 3 seconds using 449% logical CPUs. It really makes no sense. Interesting how much slower it is than native - could it be protections against things such as crypto mining?
If you dont believe me… nobody is stopping you from testing various things on the same model? And if you dont have it already… then what could I possibly say that would motivate you to buy a used one to do the testing to confirm? Edit: And even on my ipad pro m2 doing literally nothing other than swiping to the app library often causes a visible stutter and lag for hundreds of miliseconds… so if you really think it’s flat out impossible to find consistently slower things on the much more complex macos… idk what to say.
I own almost every Apple ecosystem device, but I definitely wouldn’t call their mobile device RAM capacity as sufficient. It physically hurts me when my iPad Pro M2 and iPhone 16 Pro Max (earlier 15,14,13,12,11) start to swap out live apps - sure some apps retain state, but the majority still don’t. Even Safari randomly reloads tabs for me, while I’m just researching purchases across <10 live tabs.
Honestly with a tablet I prefer some bezel so I can hold it without touching the screen. I have both a 9th Gen iPad and an M2 iPad Pro, I use the “inferior” one almost exclusively.
[...] I have an IPad Pro M2. Why shouldn't I be able to run software that works on my M2 MBP? [...]
My iPad Pro M2 and VisionPro M2 are officially garbage since they can’t run the latest Siri on device. Will need to depend on Siri in the cloud - just checks notes how it works now. 😆 wwdc
[...] I might install on my iPad Pro M2 to see how it looks. [...]
Haven’t watched the keynote yet, but my iPad Pro M2 is apparently becoming a MacBook. I’m not mad as it has an M2 chip whereas my Mac mini has an M1. The Apple silicon IPad Pros are fully capable of being a laptop to the point I rarely touch my MacBook Air.
[...] I learned this with my iPad Pro M2. If your unhappy with the prices and upgrade scheme of switch 2 then don't buy one. [...]
What problems do you have? On my iPad Pro M2 it works fine. Not perfect but most of its functionality is there.
So new iPad Pro M4/7th gen is 4X the iPad Pro M2/6th gen and 10X the iPad Pro A9X/1st gen. Probably something like 8X my iPad Pro A12X/4th gen. [...]
I wanted the new apple pencil pro but it only works on the new ipads :( I have the m2 ipad pro. Literally there's no need but I love to draw on mine and that pencil with the accelerometer and gyroscope sounds amazing in procreate. I think we'll start seeing artwork where you can see the difference in brush work.
[...] My iPad Pro M2 512 GB is nice and portable with great horsepower wasted by some apps. [...]
Oh man, I was scared for a moment that my iPad Pro M2 won't get iOS 27, but apparently it's just stupid naming - it's technically not "iPad Pro M2" but "iPad Pro (4th Gen)" so it's covered by the third line… 🙄
I have a 6 gen iPad Pro M2, 512 GB. [...] It's been years, but I have used Linux.
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What the brand claims
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What owners report
“I've been using a 12.9" M2 iPad Pro as a daily driver for six months. It is almost perfect - the only big issue I have is a problem in WebKit where a two-finger-tap on a trackpad procs both the system contextual menu and the web app context menu. [...] Here's the issue in bugzilla: Outside of that, I love using it and actively prefer it over a regular desktop OS for all tasks outside of software development (and with the bug fixed even that would be better)”
after 6 monthsView on Hacker News“[...] It worked great for six months in which I regularly slept and waked up early, did spanish vocabulary anki sessions, and no phone during remote work (“no phone for two hours” task,) etc., until I used all my point for a M2 IPad Pro which was the ultimate reward I set for myself from the very start.”
after 6 monthsView on Hacker News“Browser use on the modern web is enough to put you in swap territory early and often on 8GB of RAM. My much more RAM efficient M2 iPad Pro with the non-desktop OS and 8GB of RAM frequently has to page out apps I had open two minutes ago if I’m doing anything with the web and like one or two other applications. This things eventual replacement in like 4 or 5 years is going to need twice or thrice the RAM for me to consider it an upgrade.”
“Tangent, but related; I wish Apple would now stop shaving mm off the iPad's thickness and start improving battery life. [...] I think it's the only compute device Apple sell that hasn't increased its Apple-rated battery runtime in the last 14 years. I had zero complaints frankly about the previous generation M2 iPad Pro's thickness, it was already impressively thin! I'd much, much rather see battery runtime go up at this stage. [...] More battery is more headroom to run heavy applications or games away from a plug socket. [...]”
Common iPad Pro M2 problems
Problems most owners who mention them agree on, plus ones owners are split on.
- Software & AI5 owners report this (1 disagree)View on Bluesky
“My iPad Pro M2 and VisionPro M2 are officially garbage since they can’t run the latest Siri on device.”
- Performance2 owners report thisView on Hacker News
“Edit: And even on my ipad pro m2 doing literally nothing other than swiping to the app library often causes a visible stutter and lag for hundreds of miliseconds… so if you really think it’s flat out impossible to find consistently slower things on the much more complex macos… idk what to say.”
- Sound2 owners report this (1 disagree)