15 of the best Black Friday iPad deals in 2023

Almost all of them are seeing new record-low pricing.
By Bethany Allard  on 
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UPDATE: Nov. 24, 2023, 5:00 a.m. EST We've updated this post with the latest Black Friday iPad deals, including accessories like the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard.

Best Black Friday iPad deals

Best overall deal
iPad Air (WiFi, 64GB)
$499.99 at Amazon (save $99.01)
starlight ipad air

Best budget iPad
2021 iPad (WiFi, 64GB)
$229.99 at Amazon (save $99.01)
silver ipad

Best accessory deal
Apple Pencil (second generation)
$89 at Amazon (save $40)
white apple pencil 2

An iPad can be an excellent addition to your tech collection, but they come with a big price tag. Luckily, Black Friday iPad deals can act as a major hack for the cost problem.

You might be under the impression that Apple rarely runs any sales (even their Black Friday situation maxes out at a gift card on top of a full price purchase), and that's true — if the only place you buy Apple products is directly from their website. However, if you look to stores like Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, and Target, you'll find that the whole line of products, iPads included, get markdowns regularly, with some of the best deals of the year making an appearance for Black Friday.

Below, we're tracking the best iPad deals live the day before Black Friday, as well as any that may have disappeared already:

Note: All newly added deals are marked with a ✨, while deals with a 🔥 have dropped to an all-time low price. Deals with a strikeout were either sold out or expired at the time of writing.

Best Black Friday iPad deal

Why we like it

Read our full review of the 2022 iPad Air.

If you're looking for the "sweet spot" of iPad models, you'll find it in the iPad Air, according to Mashable's Stan Schroeder. It has an M1 chip, which will power you through tasks like gaming and audio editing without a hitch — and it won't cost you the $800-plus that an iPad Pro with the same chip would. This base model is slightly on the smaller side when it comes to storage, but luckily, the 256GB Air is also on sale for $99 off — which still puts it a good $150 below the 128GB iPad Pro. Basically, if you want something a bit less basic than the standard iPad but don't want to shell out, the Air is your perfect in-between. And at $499.99, it's back down to its lowest price ever — and the price we saw it sit at for the entirety of Prime Day.

Best Black Friday budget iPad deal

Why we like it

Target went off with its latest drop of Black Friday Apple deals. The 9th generation has been sitting at its $249 low for a couple of weeks now, and though it was a good deal, it was a low price we'd seen before. As of Nov. 20, however, the 9th generation iPad has dropped to a new low — just $229.99 at Amazon and Target. Though this 2021-era tablet certainly isn't the latest and greatest, it's about $120 cheaper than any other brand new iPad on the market right now (that's including sale prices). The A13 chip and 10.2-inch Retina display will do what you need them to do for basic tasks, like taking notes or streaming video.

If you're looking for a bit more storage space, the 256GB model has also hit a new low of $379.99, again at both Amazon and Target.

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Frequently Asked Questions


If you're not shopping at Apple, iPad deals can actually crop up pretty regularly throughout the year. Multiple times this year, the 9th generation iPad has hit $249, the iPad Air $499.99, and the iPad mini $399.99.

With that said, shopping holidays are the time of year when you're most likely to see a greater number of iPads at, or near, their lowest prices. That means Black Friday and Prime Day sales are a great time to buy.


If you're looking at the standard iPad, the newest generation is the 10th generation, which was released in 2022. It runs an A14 Bionic chip. Here's the breakdown for other iPad models:

  • iPad Air: the latest generation is the fifth generation, which was released in early 2022 and runs an M1 chip.

  • iPad mini: the iPad mini is on its sixth generation, which came out in 2021 and runs an A15 Bionic chip.

  • iPad Pro: the 11-inch iPad Pro is on its fourth generation, which launched in Oct. 2022 and houses an M2 chip. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro is on its sixth generation, but also came out in Oct. 2022 and runs an M2 chip.

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Bethany Allard
Shopping Reporter

Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature. You can follow her on X @betallard and reach her by email at [email protected]. In her free time, you'll find her playing her Switch, hanging with her cat Mila, or cooking something new in her kitchen.


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