As someone who rarely uses the rear camera on his iPad Pro2021 (12.9 inches), I don't think so much about the Apple slab snapper. Well, apart from when I'm using it, I can cut my hair without shaving my skull. But with that said, you're definitely interested in the rear camera of Crew Cupertino's latest Pro tablet. Here is the reason.

The new iPad Pro M4's 12MP front landscape camera and 12MP cams on the back are already impressive, but adding a tiny little sensor that most people don't notice makes the one on the back even more attractive. 

As with the iPad Pro2022, both cameras in the 11- and 13-inch M4 models come with wide and ultra-wide lenses, microphones, LED flash, and LiDAR (light detection and ranging) scanners. But as discovered in the new iPad Pro user manual 9to5Mac, there are additional sensors to help with certain snap tasks. 

According to this guide, this mysterious little hole is a "ambient light sensor." Previous iPad generations have benefited from this kind of sensor on the front of the tablet to help with automatic brightness and true tone features (hoo-boy am I not a fan of the latter), but this is the first time it has appeared on the back. 

9to5mac mentions a previous Apple keynote that referred to a new generation of "adaptive True Tone flash," which uses a combination of hardware and AI to detect and measure ambient light before removing shadows. what's the end result? Improved scanning of documents. 

We don't know yet whether this rear ambient light sensor has other tricks up the sleeve, but what we know is that the iPad Pro2024 has made so far in his review, my computing colleague Tony Polanco said the new high-end iPad has its "fantastic OLED display." "We've got it all," he said, before praising the "play, powerful M4 performance, thin and solid design and incredibly long battery life."

I resisted all of a week before taking the plunge to 1, and at the time of writing I am currently waiting for delivery on the OLED iPad that I have dreamed of for years. If you'll forgive me, now I better look at some documents that I might not have to scan or.