iPad Air (2022) colors: every shade explained

The iPad Air line saw a new model at Apple’s March Peek Performance event, with the launch of the iPad Air (2022) , and the company’s mid-tier device now more closely resembles the premium iPad Pro models than ever before.

With support for the second-generation Apple Pencil, a 10.9-inch display with rounded corners and, perhaps most importantly, the M1 chipset that powers Apple’s computers, it’s a tempting option for all kinds of users.

What makes it even more attractive is the new color options, with five new shades to choose from whether you’re looking at the 64GB or 256GB model of the tablet.

The iPad Air (2022) comes in Space Grey, Pink, Purple, Blue, and Starlight - some of those are the same as the iPad Air 4 , and some are different. Let’s look closer.

Space Gray

Apple has offered Space Grey for years across various device lineups, but it always seems to change slightly each time. The iPad Air (2022)’s Space Grey shade offers a very business-like slate color on the rear casing, which complements the black screen bezels. It’s almost like a ‘gunmetal’ color.

Starlight

Apple doesn’t offer the iPad Air (2022) in white, but Starlight is as close as you’ll get. It’s an off-white color with a hint of cream that’s darker than its iPhone SE (2022) counterpart, and a little closer to the iPhone 13 – minus the glossy finish.

Pink

While Apple seems to have retired Rose Gold as a shade - at least for now - Pink is pretty close. It’s perhaps a little more rose than gold, but the more premium finish makes it appear less reflective than the iPhone 13 in the same color. That also makes it look just a sliver darker overall.

Blue

Despite sharing the same name as the blue of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini , the blue shade on the iPad Air (2022) is actually a little closer to the Sierra Blue found on Apple’s latest Pro smartphones – it’s just a hair darker.

Purple

There’s no comparison in the iPhone 13 range for the iPad Air (2022)’s purple color, but it’s actually very close to the iPhone 12 in purple that was released a few months into that generation. It’s a little paler, but not by a lot.

An iOS app aims to preserve the Hmong dialect for future generations

While you may be enjoying apps that can help solve the tasks for the day ahead, or scratches your daily itch in the latest game on Apple Arcade , for example, there are a few different apps that serve an important purpose.

The Hmong people are one of the most marginalized Asian American groups in the US, and its language is in danger of being relegated to the history books.

This is where Hmong Phrases comes in. Its developer, Annie Vang, wants to preserve the Hmong language that has been in her family for generations. Alongside this, Vang also hosts a YouTube channel to showcase foods in the Hmong culture, as well as her other favorite foods.

It's available for iPhone and iPad devices running iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 or later for $0.99 / £0.69 / AU$ 1.09,  and it can also work on a Mac with Apple Silicon . You can scroll through the different conversations and hear back from Vang herself on how to pronounce various words.

It feels personal and yet educational - you know that Vang has put everything into this app, and it looks as though she isn't done, having recently spoken to her.

What could be next for the app?

The app has an elegant layout with a colorful scheme throughout its menus. The list of phrases may seem overwhelming to some at first, but you get used to it. You can use the search bar to find what you want.

While it's great to use it on iOS mainly, we asked Vang if there were any plans to add newer widgets , alongside an Apple Watch version, in the future.

Practicing phrases and words in Hmong on your wrist could appeal to many, especially as later Apple Watch models can use the speaker with some apps.

Vang was enthusiastic about these two ideas, and there's potentially a chance we could see them later in the year.

But whatever occurs in a future update, it's a great effort already to revive a language, and a culture, that should be preserved for future generations.

Spider-Man movies in order: From Tobey Maguire to Tom Holland

Is he a bird? Is he a plane? Is this the wrong catchphrase? Yes it is – he’s a spider, and just like catching the eight-legged arachnids, it’s become tricky to know how to watch the Spider-Man movies in order if you’re looking for a complete run through his cinematic legacy.

Arguably the most popular superhero in the Marvel comics canon and MCU, Spider-Man has had several big screen outings over the past couple of decades. Starting off with director Sam Raimi’s seminal Spider-Man film starring Tobey Maguire, they were once pretty easy to follow – Spider-Man has a string of solo adventures, then the franchise gets rebooted with another actor in the suit, and so on. Release order was all that mattered.

But, just as it’s become difficult to keep up with how to watch the Marvel movies in order , so too are Spider-Man’s onscreen appearances beginning to webswing out of control.

Thanks to crossovers, reboots, spin-offs and multi-studio character deals, it’s actually pretty complicated when it comes to following the adventures of our favorite wallcrawler these days. As such, depending on how you enjoy your viewing sessions, and what you want to get from your time with your friendly neighbourhood super hero, you’ve got a few different options on how to approach a marathon session with Spidey.

So, if you’re looking for all the different ways to watch Spider-Man movies in order – with some semblance of sense to them, these are your options.

That would give you a great view of Spider-Man as he’s evolved on screen. But focussing on solely Spider-Man films wouldn’t give you the full story of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, as his films are so entwined with those of The Avengers too. So onto the next option!

Spider-Man and The Avengers in order

Modern Marvel movies, aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe, aka the MCU, are in part so successful and popular because they weave multiple characters together to create a much larger overall story. Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films pour into this mixture and, thanks to the events of No Way Home, have ultimately drawn the Maguire and Garfield Spider-Men into this overarching MCU storyline, too.

So to get the full picture of how Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has grown into the hero we now know and love, you’ve got to watch at least a few more MCU films, too. You could argue you should watch all the MCU Marvel movies in order for the full experience, but we’ll leave that for another day. At the very least, these are the essential MCU films to include if you want the full Tom-Holland-as-Peter-Parker story, and how they also relate to the early Spider-folk.

Spider-Man movies in chronological order

OK, now we’re really getting into the nitty gritty of things, and where some comic book nerdery comes into play. Just as Spider-Man has existed in multiple forms on screen, so too has he in the Marvel comics he came from. There’s the ‘Ultimate’ universe Spider-Man, multiple different Earth versions (Earth-9500, Earth-982, etc etc), and the Earth-616 universe where he first appeared from the minds of creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.

Earth-616 then is kind of seen as the ‘core’ Spider-Man experience that many of the films ultimately draw their inspiration from. It’s here where the classic arc was born – bitten by the radioactive spider, sees his beloved uncle Ben die, falls for Mary Jane, and so on. Different films take different elements of these early stories, tweaking them as they go along, but you can… roughly … chart a course through each variation of Spider-Man that more or less walks the steps laid out by this original comic incarnation.

For instance, Peter Parker was in love with Gwen Stacey before he fell for MJ, and so Andrew Garfield’s films, by that metric, come first. Both Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man crushes jump straight to Mary Jane – but Tom Holland’s films skip the origin story of spider-bite and uncle death, so Tobey Maguire’s films would come before them. It’s not a perfect science, but it’s an interesting alternative way to watch the films if you want to more closely mirror the comic book arcs. Probably not best suited to a first viewing though, but here we go!

Spider-Man movies in order: the complete experience

And now, the ultimate combination of everything Spider-Man! Some background first – Spider-Man’s place in cinema is a confusing one, largely because of all the deals in place surrounding the character’s appearances on screen. Despite Disney owning Marvel, it’s actually Sony that holds the rights to the Spider-Man character, thanks to an ongoing deal with the Marvel company in its earlier iteration as an independent publisher. It’s why it took so long for Spider-Man to join the MCU, as it took years before an agreement was made to have the character appear in 2016’s Civil War and ongoing adventures thereafter.

What this has also allowed, however, is Sony to spin the character off in other directions not (at least immediately) connected to the MCU. And so you have the superb Into The Spider-Verse animated film (which you should 100% absolutely not miss) and its upcoming sequel, and a whole slew of related villain movies in the works, such as the Venom franchise. Though details aren’t yet clear, there’s a belief that, with Spider-Man’s MCU obligations apparently wrapped up, Sony is now looking to build out its own interconnected Spider-Man universe, pulling all these strands together.

Will it come to fruition? Who knows. But if you absolutely must spend every last drop of web fluid watching Spider-Man related films… this is it.