will pictures look better on an iPad air 10.5 than an iPad 2019 10.2?

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Hi, my girlfriend has wanted an iPad for ages, we finally decided on the iPad 2019 10.2 128gb. We went with that in the end as we thought the storage was the same as her phone which is an iPhone XR. As soon as all her picture transfers across she was a little disappointed with how some looked on the screen. Some seem fine but others she thinks the quality doesn't look a good. Looking at bigger pictures of the baby was one reason she really wanted a bigger tablet as well. Most of these pics have been taken with her XR.

Will it probably be the original pictures just aren't as focused so don't look great when sized up on the iPad so would probably not look great on an iPad air either or have we made a mistake going for the slightly cheaper iPad an the pictures would probably look a lot better on an air?

If we swapped for the air it would be the 64gb version which is £30 more than we paid. We originally went with the 128gb iPad though as the storage was the same and she didn't want to have any issues with the iPad running out of space with her videos and pictures before her phone did.

What do you guys think, would you have got the air. From looking at the specs some aspects of the air screen look better but the DPI is actually the same.

Thanks

James
 
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Have you looked at the photos on a laptop or desktop computer? It’s probably not a problem with the quality of the iPad but a problem with the quality of the original photo. A small phone screen hides a multitude of sins.
 
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It's all about PPI (pixel per inch) which the XR will have a higher PPI than the iPad.

I think the iPad you have would be better than the 10.5 as the PPI is lower on the later (iirc). Although, that's not to say that iPad has a better screen anyway.
 
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Have you looked at the photos on a laptop or desktop computer? It’s probably not a problem with the quality of the iPad but a problem with the quality of the original photo. A small phone screen hides a multitude of sins.
Exactly this.
Photos on phone screens tend to always look amazing and it’s often hard to tell the difference between a photo taken with a cheap camera vs one costing thousands. An out of focus image will appear in focus on a medium size phone screen at normal viewing distances.
Scale up the screen or print size and the differences become a lot more obvious.
 
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