The iPad Air (3rd generation) (colloquially referred to as iPad Air 3) is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced and released on March 18, 2019, alongside the 5th-generation iPad Mini.
The device was released five years after the previous iPad Air 2, as the 5th-generation iPad, released in 2017, continued the standard iPad lineup as the successor to the 4th-generation iPad (released in 2012) and was succeeded by the 6th-generation iPad, released in 2018. The third generation iPad Air was instead positioned as a new entry in the iPad Air lineup.
Its case design is identical to the iPad Pro 10.5 inch; internal hardware includes an upgraded Apple A12 Bionic SoC, a 10.5-inch Retina Display, 3 GB of LPDDR4X memory, and support for Bluetooth 5.0 and the first-generation Apple Pencil.
This iPad, the 9th-generation iPad and the 5th-generation iPad Mini were the last iPad models to use a Lightning port and a home button. The 3rd-generation iPad Air was discontinued on September 15, 2020, following the introduction of the 4th-generation iPad Air.