Af.design for IPAD PRO or AIR

[Chris26]

I know this is not an Affinity question as such, but I have absolutely no experience at all with IPADs.  All you IPAD users, as far as the Affinity suite is concerned are there preferences between the IPADS?, the IPAD air, or the IPAD pro?  My wife's 5 year old ipad is corrupting design files and tiffs and doing weirder than my cat without her evening tuna.  So users' experience will be so gratefully received right now as we need to purchase soonest.

The only requirements are that an IPAD Pencil can be used and that Procreate intertwines seemlessly with Affinity Designer.

Thank you.

[NotMyFault]

I love the smaller up to 10.5 inch iPads for travel, but better get a full sized one. Some UI elements are cut off from smaller screens.

Focus on M1/M2 iPads who support pencil 2.

 

[v_kyr]

14 minutes ago, Chris26 said:

My wife's 5 year old ipad is corrupting design files and tiffs

Except maybe having not enough iPad free storage space, it might not be hardware related but more software related bugs at all here. Thus I first would take a look through the V2 Bugs found on iPad forum section first, before buying something new here, just in order to prevent later to find out, that pretty much the same behavior things happen with a new iPad hardware too.

[Chris26]

10 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Except maybe having not enough iPad free storage space, it might not be hardware related but more software related bugs at all here. Thus I first would take a look through the V2 Bugs found on iPad forum section first, before buying something new here, just in order to prevent later to find out, that pretty much the same behavior things happen with a new iPad hardware too.

Hallo, should have mentioned it is Version One.  Stacks of storage on the IPAD.  Searched the forum, nothing found.  It is mostly exporting files from A.Design as TIff or PNG and transferring them to my laptop for printing since apple in their so called wisdom have failed to provide access to printer drivers over the years from within an IPAD,  half the time they are corrupted along the way. You see the thumbnails with half black over it  or one third solid grey covering the image or thumbnail.  Anyway, I use to spend hours solving all sorts of software issues over the years but now can no longer be bothered with all the hassle. Thanks for the feedback anyway. 

[DM1]

@Chris26 My 10.5” iPad Pro died recently and has now been replaced with a new iPad Air M1. The Air has 8Gb of ram (compared to 4Gb on the old Pro models) and the M1 has plenty of power to deal with the Affinity apps. No purchase regret here. M1 to M2 is not a huge performance increase so it makes the Air very competitive performance / cost wise compared to the Pro. The M3 is “rumoured” to be a major performance boost but yet to reach production. In summary an Air will perform flawlessly with Affinity as will the Pros.

[LionelD]

Hi, I am running the V2 apps on a 2019 11” iPad Pro with the latest iPadOS.  I upgraded the V1 apps to V2 when V2 was published.

I do not have problems moving files between my iPad and my old MBP right now, but at one point I did have trouble moving files with AirDrop.  Turns out that was an AirDrop problem which has since been corrected, no hint of trouble at the moment.  I don’t remember exactly when this happened; the problem was easily repeated, and Apple accepted my offer to help define the problem.  They were very responsive and helpful.

I’d guess that if your iPad is running a recent update you won’t have the AirDrop problem.  I can track down an approximate date if you need it; let me know.

Regards

 

[Chris26]

Dm1 and Lionel thank you for your comments.  IPAD Air certainly appears the wy to go.  So that's that.  Lionel, I have no idea what you mean with MBP and I have no idea what Airdrop is.  My Apple mac proper computer has never had problems with anything in 15 years of use.  Never a corrupted file, broken software or needed to repair (apart from permissions).  Yet in 4 years I have seen more corruptions, frustrations, annoyances, irritations, interferences and down right "what the #@##% is this" on both Microsoft laptops and apple IPADs.  It pays to stay with the dinosaurs!  

[LionelD]

Ok, so MBP is MacBook Pro and AirDrop is an Apple feature that allows you to transfer files between Apple machines wirelessly (I think it’s magic).  AirDrop is a relatively new feature, so might not be available on your Apple Mac.  I’m sure you’ll find it on any new MacBook Air, but doubt your Mac will offer it.

I find that the hardware products today are quite miraculously long-lived.  I have an iPod Classic that still works (when I try to use it, which is not often).

For me there are a few things that detract from older equipment: none of the newer features (especially security features), and declining ability to run the increasingly demanding applications of today.  Performance is usually what pushes me to update.

Regards

[Alfred]

1 minute ago, LionelD said:

AirDrop is an Apple feature that allows you to transfer files between Apple machines wirelessly

More info here: https://support.apple.com/HT204144

[Alfred]

On 9/30/2023 at 12:26 PM, Chris26 said:

The only requirements are that an IPAD Pencil can be used and that Procreate intertwines seemlessly with Affinity Designer.

Does your wife already have an Apple Pencil? If so, it’s almost certainly a version 1 Apple Pencil, not version 2, which will limit your choice of new iPad unless you’re prepared for the extra expense of a new Apple Pencil at the same time.

[Chris26]

4 hours ago, Alfred said:

Does your wife already have an Apple Pencil? If so, it’s almost certainly a version 1 Apple Pencil, not version 2, which will limit your choice of new iPad unless you’re prepared for the extra expense of a new Apple Pencil at the same time.

Ah good point - I missed that one.  Thanks Alfred.

[DM1]

18 hours ago, Alfred said:

unless you’re prepared for the extra expense of a new Apple Pencil at the same time.

It’s a good point. 
Having said that, the new pencil is much better. It attaches magnetically to the iPad and charges while attached. It also has double tap feature.
The old pencil required plugging in and if left near the iPad would connect and slowly discharge itself. Both draw equally as well as the other.
 

[gyalogosdesign]

Welcome everyone! I would like to ask if the IPad 9 can run the Affinity 2.2 package with an Apple pencil? I am a hobby logo designer with a small budget. I'm working on an old PC that runs Affinity 2.2 properly for creating logos. I would also like to try the possibilities offered by the IPad+Apple Pencil. But I can only afford the IPad 9. But I would only buy it if it can still use the software in an acceptable way. Is the performance and the 64 GB version enough? I would only use it for hand sketching and vector logo design. It is about creating small and not too complicated graphics, supplemented with the possibilities of Apple Pencil and portability. If anyone has experience with this, please share it with me! Thanks!

[loukash]

8 minutes ago, gyalogosdesign said:

the IPad 9 can run the Affinity 2.2 package with an Apple pencil?

Our iPad 8 can, so why shouldn't iPad 9…?  

9 minutes ago, gyalogosdesign said:

64 GB version enough?

It always depends. Keep in mind that especially pixel based images incl. photos tend to pile up. Some afphoto documents can easily reach sizes of 100 or more MB, depending of complexity. Also, the system itself and other apps you may eventually want to use on the iPad will occupy a significant portion of those 64 GB. You have to plan in advance, and also think about a good backup and archive strategy in case the storage becomes eventually full.

[AlainP]

I currently use two iPads. One is Gen 9 with Apple pencil 1, and an iPad Pro 12.9 inch with Apple pencil 2. Both have 256 GB and never had any problem at all with any of them using Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. I had a Gen 6 model, 256 GB a few years ago on which I only use Affinity Photo only and it was working very fine.

If I had to buy another one some day I would probably go with the 11 in pro or probably the Air, enough powerful and a little less expensive. These days apps and data files take a lot of space so 256 GB should be the minimum. But I could not use these without iCloud and OneDrive for file storing as I work with a PC, a MacBook and iPads.