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Apple iPad Mini 2024 review: missing pieces

Apple’s smallest tablet might be the worst value in the entire iPad lineup.

Face ID is so much better and faster, especially on a device whose power button is constantly rotating in your hands, that going back to tapping my index finger felt like a huge step backward. It was able to handle Call of Duty: Warzone even on high settings, with only the occasional dropped frame, but as soon as I cranked things up in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, it stuttered so badly that the game became hard to play. Apple has some good ideas about what Siri can do on your behalf and how AI might make it easier for you to do math problems or write emails, but many of those features are still new and imperfect, and many others just straight-up don’t exist.

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