It’s time for Apple to revive one of its discontinued iPad accessories<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>A few years ago, Apple used to have a much simpler iPad keyboard lineup. It just offered a Smart Keyboard for each of their iPad models, and they all essentially served as the same product. Nowadays, after the introduction of trackpad support in iPadOS and the , everything is unnecessarily convoluted – with each iPad model having a slightly different Magic Keyboard and varying features.</p>
<p>While the
keyboard lineup is a mess, that’s not what I take issue with right now – it’s the fact that we’ve lost the , which in hindsight was an incredible offering.</p>
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It’s time for Apple to revive one of its discontinued iPad accessories