The iPad Mini 6 introduced many major changes to small tablet families, the first in a very long time. Not only adopts design languages ​​that are now common in all iPhone and iPad, but finally adhering to the USB-C connector. Although it seems small compared, a larger appearance of the 6th gene iPad Mini actually has significant consequences, including what can be the cause of what has been referred to as the “Jelly Scroll” behavior that was rejected Apple as something really normal.

Apple clarifies that this uneven scroll is typical LCD screen, and they have a point. How this screen refreshes line by line often causes lag, especially near the top and bottom edges of the screen. However, it does not explain why this phenomenon is more visible to the iPad Mini 6 compared to other iPads with an LCD screen or even a laptop.

Teardown iFixit from the latest and smallest iPad might have revealed the answer, although it was still theoretically in the section of the Teardown expert. This has to do with how the display controller is oriented in relation to the direction of scroll. When the direction scroll is parallel to the controller, which is the case with iPad Mini 6 in portrait mode, the jelly effect is more visible. It explains why “bugs” seem to disappear in the orientation of the landscape or why the iPad Air 2020 behaves upside down.

Meanwhile, it might have explained some difficulties in the Predicamen iPad Mini 6, Teardown, unfortunately, did not provide many guarantees for improvement. The surprising presence of the battery pull tab turned out to be a red herring, and a modular USB-C port did not do much to increase tablet ratings. Ifixit provides 3 out of 10, still one of the lowest among Apple devices.

The theory of the Jelly scroll effect does explain why Apple confirms everything is normal, even though it does not mean that behavior is acceptable. Unfortunately, it means that it is not something that can be easily fixed, and the only street users will have is getting used to or hoping that Apple developed several tricks for software to compensate for the lag.