Bloomberg Apple reporter Mark Gurman first speculated that the next iPad Pro would feature a Vapor Chamber cooling system on October 26, 2025 edition of his Power On newsletter. 

Coincidently and completely by chance, three weeks earlier on the 2nd of October, your boys at iPad Productivity wrote an article suggesting this would be a likely move from Apple for the next iPad Pro. 

For a few reasons I believe Gurman is correct on his prediction, because interestingly he suggested in his report that if the implementation of a Vapor Chamber is successful in the iPad Pro, Apple may eventually bring vapor chamber cooling to other fanless devices, such as the MacBook Air. Now this makes total sense to me, as the iPad is used by Apple as a test bed for advanced new future technologies. 

We have actually seen this with many technologies first debuted on the iPad that made their way later to other Apple devices such as; 

• ProMotion – first seen on the iPad Pro in 2017 later adopted by the iPhone and the Macbook in 2021. 
• LiDar was another first debuted on the iPad Pro in 2020 then later that year on the iPhone.