iFixit yesterday shared a teardown of the new iPad mini, highlighting the fact that Apple didn’t rotate the display driver to fix the “jelly scrolling” issue – as many people thought they would do. I was expecting it. Instead, the fix is located elsewhere.
When reviewers got their hands on the new iPad mini, many noted at least less jelly-like scrolling. Some claim it’s gone completely, while others claim it’s just an improvement from the mini 6.
For context, jelly scrolling is an issue where half of the display updates slower than the other half, resulting in wobble.
We previously heard that Apple’s Jelly Scroll fix might be a display controller fix, not necessarily a fix to the actual display hardware. From Federico Vitic mac story reported as follows:
We’re happy to report that the jelly scrolling issue has been fixed on the new iPad mini without changing the device’s underlying display technology. The new iPad mini has a display controller that is optimized so that the entire panel updates at the same rate and rate. So even if the display is the same across two generations with the same refresh rate, color gamut, pixel density, and brightness, the new iPad mini will have one side of the screen refreshed faster than the other. There is no such thing.
Overall, iFixit’s teardown further supports the fact that Apple hasn’t made any major changes to the hardware. However, one new detail has emerged. The Apple logo is now removable.
iFixit’s complete teardown video is available on YouTube.
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