Best heavy-duty iPad cases Rantice iPad 9th Generation case. Pros: Three-layer design, built-in kickstand; Cons: No slot for an Apple Pencil; View on Amazon.

In our battery tests, the 9th-gen iPad lasted almost exactly as long as the 8th-gen iPad: about eight hours running through the Geekbench 4 battery drain test with the display fixed at 200 nits.

Notably, the case has a holder for the second-generation Apple Pencil, suggesting that the 10th-generation iPad will support the newer version of the Apple Pencil. The ninth-generation iPad is ...