{"id":218059,"date":"2026-02-27T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:55:09","slug":"blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender for iPad development on hold after prioritizing Android tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/27\/blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets\/\">Blender for iPad development on hold after prioritizing Android tablets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/27\/blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets\/\">https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/27\/blender-for-ipad-development-on-hold-after-prioritizing-android-tablets\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 08:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5mac.com\">9to5mac.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the team behind the open-source 3D creation software Blender made news after confirming iPad Pro support was planned. Seven months later, however, the project appears to be on hold as an Android tablet version takes priority.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-1041049\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back in July, the Blender team acknowledged the need to bring the app to the tablet era:<\/p>\n<p>Multi-touch interfaces like tablets have been common for years, but only recently thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices. To support Blender\u2019s mission of making 3D technology accessible to everyone, it\u2019s important to fully embrace these platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these devices include Apple iPad, Microsoft Surface, Huawei MatePad, and the Wacom MovinkPad, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Testing initially began with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil:<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to bring the full power of Blender to these devices. This requires adapting to platform-specific paradigms, but also to offer more task-oriented user interfaces with reduced information density. This will be achieved by extending existing input methods, and improving workspaces and application templates, running on top of a regular Blender build.<\/p>\n<p>The initial platform where this idea will be tested is the Apple iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, followed by Android and other graphic tablets in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But it sounds like development has progressed more in the Android space. YouTuber Brad Colbow has brought attention to the current status:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blender Officially Puts iPad App On Hold\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/El0k_hWl7p0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The team behind Blender for iPad\u2019s development confirms in a public comment that \u201cthis project is on hold until further notice,\u201d adding that \u201cthe team will instead focus on the Android tablets first instead.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it doesn\u2019t sound like Blender for iPad is being abandoned entirely. There\u2019s certainly no hardware limitation on the iPad Pro these days as performance is equal to Macs. 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