The latest iPad with the A16 chip is Apple’s most affordable device capable of running Final Cut Pro
Apple’s Final Cut Pro video editing software has been confirmed to run on the latest low-cost iPad powered by the A16 chip.
The Compatibility section on the Final Cut Pro’s App Store page says the software requires iPadOS 17.6 or later and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip.
However, certain more advanced features of Final Cut Pro require the latest Apple silicon and are unsupported on the iPad 11, including shooting video in Apple’s ProRes format and editing video timelines with Apple Pencil hover.
You can download Final Cut Pro for iPad from the App Store for free, but using the app requires a subscription ($5/month, $50/year).
Final Cut Pro runs on the $349 iPad
MacRumors notes that the seventh-generation iPad mini powered by the A17 Pro chip, which starts at $500, was the most affordable iPad model that could run Final Cut Pro before the iPad 11 dropped. “The eleventh-generation iPad is cheaper, and it provides more screen space for video editing purposes,” it reads.
The eleventh-generation iPad was introduced on March 5, 2025, as a typical “chip and ship” update, an industry phrase referring to swapping out the main chip with everything else pretty much intact. It swaps Apple’s A14 chip first released in 2020 for the A16, which debuted in the iPhone 14 Pros (2022) but has five CPU cores instead of six and four GPU cores instead of five in a version used for the iPad 11.
The A16 makes the device about 30 percent faster vs. the previous A14 Bionic model. Compared to the ninth-generation iPad (2021) with the A13 chip, the new one is about 50 percent faster. Aside from a faster chip, the eleventh-generation iPad features double the base storage. Other than that, nothing else has changed, including the price which still starts at the same $350 as the previous model, which Apple no longer offers.
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