Apple Regulatory Page Lists Smart Folio For Unannounced IPad Mini
An official regulatory listing for a case built around an unlisted model number is the kind of slip that tends to surface days before an announcement, and it lines up with the October 2026 window already attached to the iPad mini and MacBook Pro rumors.
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Apple's regulatory information page listed a Smart Folio case for an iPad mini carrying the model number A3632. The current iPad mini (7th generation) uses the model number A2993, and A3632 does not appear on Apple's Identify your iPad model page. The new iPad mini is rumored to be announced in the latter half of October 2026 alongside a new MacBook Pro.
The listing appeared on Apple's regulatory information page rather than in a product announcement, and it concerns a case, not the tablet itself. The model number attached to it, A3632, is not one Apple's own iPad identification page accounts for. The current iPad mini (7th generation), which runs the A17 Pro, is listed under A2993.
MacRumors read the separate case as a sign the shell may have changed enough that the existing Smart Folio would not fit. Past rumors have pointed to an OLED display and improved water resistance for the next iPad mini.
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