At this point in time, you’ve read too much about it and I’m here to explain what’s jelly scrolling on iPad mini in simple words.
Stop Worrying About Jelly Scrolling, You’ll Mostly Look at a Static Page While using the iPad mini Anyway
Go through any review of iPad mini 7 and the reviewer will make jelly scrolling sound like a massive issue.
For me, it doesn’t matter, and it shouldn’t for you either. I’ll talk on that later.
I’m not going to dive into technicalities of jelly scrolling and try to explain it to you in the simplest possible way – the display wobbliness you may notice while rapidly scrolling because one half of the display was refreshing faster than the other half.
Strict focus on the word ‘may’ because a lot of people can’t see it unless you really, really try to find it. Even then, some people may not even notice it, and those ‘some people’ are actually a lot of people.
Depending on the display’s orientation, you may notice it more, too.
As someone who owned the iPad mini 6 for over two years, I never noticed it and probably never will.
Let’s get a little technical anyway – jelly scrolling can occur due to the type of LCD being used, or the display controller. Apple will never say which one is it.
Can this issue be fixed using a software update? Maybe. Who knows Apple might actually do it in the near future. But, since Apple hasn’t done it for iPad mini 6 to this day, therefore I wouldn’t hold my breath for it.
I can namedrop a lot of devices that have jelly scrolling including the Galaxy Z Fold 6. But, are you buying your device for rapid-scrolling or enjoying the content on that display? Don’t worry too much about it, especially if you can’t notice it at all.
For those who can notice it, it’s like living with a bad superpower, I understand it fully.
There’s even a chance you are reading this on a device with severe jelly scrolling and you never ever noticed it and probably never will, too.
