Apple bricks M5 iPad Pro used in Russia during unboxing ahead of its announcement

Apple's new M5 iPad Pro was unboxed by Russian YouTuber before release, but the company bricked it over-the-air, turns it into an expensive paperweight.

Apple bricks M5 iPad Pro used in Russia during unboxing ahead of its announcement
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TL;DR: Apple's new M5 iPad Pro, released in October, showed a 30% performance boost over the M4 model but was bricked by Apple after a Russian YouTuber leaked an early unboxing. This action rendered the device unusable, highlighting Apple's strict control over unauthorized leaks.

Apple launched its new M5 iPad Pro last month, with a Russian YouTuber uploading an unboxing video ahead of the release, and now Apple has bricked the new iPad Pro, turning it into an expensive paperweight.

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The new M5-powered iPad Pro was released in October, with the 13-inch iPad Pro spotted being used by YouTuber "Wylsacom" who ran benchmarks of the new M5-powered tablet to see the performance improvements over the M4 iPad Pro. The YouTuber noted around a 30% improvement overall, but we all know Apple doesn't like leaks... so they bricked the M5 iPad Pro once they found out who leaked the unboxing.

The new Apple M5 iPad Pro was sold in Russia ahead of its October release, but a post on Reddit from two days ago says that Apple bricked the unit, and it is pretty much an expensive cutting board now.

The Russian YouTubers would've paid a premium for the M5 iPad Pro last month, but would've made some bank on YouTube views with a product that wasn't released at the time. However, that particular M5 iPad Pro is now bricked and just a paperweight, so it's pretty much useless.