The mini-LED display on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro
The smaller mini-LEDs can be grouped to form dimming zones allowing the screen to deliver greater contrast (with a ratio of 1 million to 1), sharper images, and deeper blacks. Sure, OLED panels offer many of the same things but mini-LED displays are much less likely to suffer from screen burn-in. Screen burn-in, also known as a ghost image or permanent image retention, occurs when a static image on the screen is displayed for a long period of time.
Both displays on the 2024 iPad Pro models could be mini-LED, unlike the current setup which, as we previously pointed out, features mini-LED on the larger 12.9-inch unit only. The 11-inch iPad Pro features an 11-inch display,
Mini-LED should not be confused with micro-LED displays which Apple is allegedly planning to debut on the 2024 second-generation Apple Watch Ultra and the Apple Watch starting with Series 11 in 2025. Unlike mini-LED, Micro-LED panels do not use a backlight and microscopic LEDs come together to form individual pixels.