IPad Air (3rd generation)

The iPad Air (3rd generation) (colloquially referred to as iPad Air 3) is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced and released on March 18, 2019, alongside the 5th-generation iPad Mini.

The device was released five years after the previous iPad Air 2, as the 5th-generation iPad, released in 2017, continued the standard iPad lineup as the successor to the 4th-generation iPad (released in 2012) and was succeeded by the 6th-generation iPad, released in 2018. The third generation iPad Air was instead positioned as a new entry in the iPad Air lineup.

Its case design is identical to the iPad Pro 10.5 inch; internal hardware includes an upgraded Apple A12 Bionic SoC, a 10.5-inch Retina Display, 3 GB of LPDDR4X memory, and support for Bluetooth 5.0 and the first-generation Apple Pencil.

This iPad, the 9th-generation iPad and the 5th-generation iPad Mini were the last iPad models to use a Lightning port and a home button. The 3rd-generation iPad Air was discontinued on September 15, 2020, following the introduction of the 4th-generation iPad Air.

The 3rd-generation iPad Air comes in three color options (Silver, Space Gray and Gold), with the gold color option changed to the gold style used on the iPhone 8.

It features an upgraded, 7MP front camera (used first in the iPhone 7 and up to the iPhone XS), compared to the 1.2MP camera found in the previous generation. However, it retains the same, older 8MP rear camera which cannot record in 4K video as such.

It uses the Apple A12 Bionic chip, a 2.49GHz six-core processor, which has a 66% faster clock speed than the 1.5GHz triple-core Apple A8X in the iPad Air 2. It also has an improved display from the previous generation, including a P3 color gamut for more vibrant colours (improved from sRGB) and True Tone, which allows the display to adapt to ambient lighting to change its color and intensity in different environments.

This iPad Air retains the Lightning port and the headphone jack from the previous generation and is the final iPad Air model to do so; the 4th-generation Air does not have a headphone jack and uses USB-C instead. It is also the final iPad Air model available with white bezels; the 4th-generation Air uses black bezels only. It also has a slightly larger battery of 30.2 watt-hours (up from 27.6 W·h), rated by Apple to provide the same "10 hours" of active use.