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Blender iPad App Development Halted as Android Tablets Get Priority

Friday February 27, 2026 4:20 am PST by
Blender's work on a native iPad version of its open source 3D creation suite has been shelved, according to the development team. Back in July, Blender revealed that it was developing for iPad, with an iPad Pro version of its desktop software coming first, complete with a fully-featured multitouch interface and support for Apple Pencil Pro. No release date was announced at the time. Now...
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Blender Begins Testing Metal GPU Rendering on M1 Macs

Wednesday December 15, 2021 6:53 am PST by
The free and open source 3D creation tool Blender this week began testing Metal GPU rendering for its Cycles renderer on M1 Macs running macOS Monterey. Blender said Metal support for Macs with Intel and AMD GPUs is under development. Image Credit: @Jonatan on Twitter Metal GPU rendering for Cycles can be tested in the Blender 3.1 Alpha and was made possible by a contribution from Apple,...