Does an iPad bring any value over an iPhone?

Well the new iPod will have the M1 chip but the software iOS 15 is not worth the money. It will be like getting a sport car and you will only go to 40 speed due to the software. The engine is willing but the software is not. What you want to do with the iPod? The iPhone with a bluetooth works well for some people that use the phone for more than just the phone. If you planning to get the phone wait until the new comes and get the pro max. I heard the battery suppose to be better than previous.

The iPad with the Magic Keyboard ultimately is like a decent laptop. I think it depends what you want to do with it! Is the only things you're going to do a surf the web check email plus then you would also like to have that in a graded apple ecosystem such as messages and phone calls on another device? There's no question that integration is super nice the apple ecosystem is amazing in that I can text from either device. I've gone back-and-forth though throughout the years on if the iPad is really worth it. I think my answer is yes it's nice having a device separate from your phone! For example I can watch YouTube on do not disturb and still take a phone call on my iPhone if needed! My phone is kind of an extension of my work/personal life where the iPad is strictly entertainment and that's something to be valued. Now you could just buy another iPhone SE and put it in airplane mode and accomplish the same, but I do think the Magic Keyboard offers some value. The fact that I can have a good typing device and experience connected to one device rather than having a Bluetooth keyboard and the phone is nice! These are just my thoughts others may feel differently, but different strokes for different folks as they say.

I used to use iPhone, iPad and a Mac all together back when we needed to go places. Now, it's just Mac and iPhone. I'll explain below:

• iPHone: The usual iPhoney stuff, from texting, to social media, reading, web, ETC.
• iPad pro with smart keyboard: Text processor, media device, web browser, notetaker, video conference device, email.
• Mac: Everything as iPad, but with more complicated tasks like Dj-ing and music making, audio editing added.

For me, an iPad is a perfect tool to grab with me for going to a conference in another city for a few days, for a vacation where I'd need to do light work or write stuff down. Full keyboard support in iPad OS helps a lot as well. It's just lighter, more compact in several ways than a MacBook would be. I also find that the bigger touch screen allows me to get to stuff faster, as the screen can display more information at the same time.

Shure, I can hook a bluetooth keyboard up to my phone, but during a long day, I want to keep using my phone, and not waste it's tiny battery on taking notes or reading / answering to email.

As I said, my iPad is my primary machine, so my opinion's coming from there.

First, no, an iPad isn't just a giant iPhone. You can treat it that way, but you'll never get as efficient at using it if you do. Also, if your primary use of an iOS device is going to be with a keyboard, an iPad is a better idea, since a lot of applications have keyboard shortcuts that work with an iPad and not an iPhone. No idea why, but there you go. Also, multi-tasking is extremely handy when you need to see two things at once. Things like taking notes while reading, or looking at documentation while coding are two things that jump to mind that I've done recently.

As for whether you could replace a laptop with an iPad, I don't know. I know nothing about what you need to do and how ready you might be to change your workflows to something that plays to an iPads strength. I don't know. One of these days I need to write a proper blog post about how I use an iPad. All I'll say is that I've used computers for more than 30 years, and I think the iPad's the one I've been happiest with.

I am full time user of the iPad Pro. The torture of professional or even semi-professional work fits the iPad, iPhone’s batteries won’t last for a year with constant email checking, editing documents and uploading/downloading large files. I have an iPad 4 Cellular that I bought in 2013, the battery is still enough for a full day of heavy work!
I like the portability of the iPad, for me it is a media device, writing and note taking machine and entertainment is just unbeatable. I have tried iPadOS 15 on my iPad Pro and it is great with file management and multitasking.
I am academic and freelance translator and interpreter, the 104 apps on my iPad are all there to serve my needs.

Let's call a spade a spade here, the iphone's speakers are dismal compared to almost anything. sure they let you have the ear piece for the speaker which is, ok, but why not use the dummy left slot? The one set to the left of the lightning port? The iPad, I'm going way back to the two, had decent sounding speakers. So i agree i liked the spacially different aspects. I can only imagine how much longer doing something on the bigger screen would be. I'd still go with a laptop, I'm looking at ones now. Going back to the speakers for a split second, the Air is just about perfect except the speakers are just a tad worse then the pros. but do I want my legs burning with the fan when i'm doing literally nothing? Nope. Whatever you choose, good luck.

There are many music apps that only run on iPad and not iPhone OS. I haven't tried any as I don't have an iPad. I've always been curious to see if any of them would work with voiceover. I wonder if garage band is easier to use with an iPad because of the larger screen. I wish we could make our own tactile screen protectors for different apps that could be removed and exchanged easily. That could really help with apps that have a lot of Controls and information on the screen

If you want to turn green with envy; check out the sound test room on YouTube. He demos so many music apps that I wish I could use because they are so brilliant. But most of them run on the iPad only.
http://www.youtube.com/c/TheSoundTestRoom

I think the OP took off some time ago, but just for grins... Bought an IPad mini 5 thinking I might be able to do most of my laptop work on it, but it hasn't worked out for me personally--and it is a personal thing. The IPad's side-by-side interface, which puts things like the message list or settings panels on the left with content on the right, is something I just can't get used to. I find it very frustrating, compared with the drill-down of my little SE. Like I said, that's a personal thing. Also, I had to disable the lock screen in order to even try using it for writing, because the screen locks while I'm thinking of the next sentence. I'd like to use it to spare the battery on my phone--for Bard books, for instance, but the convenience of just using the phone wins out. The IPad just hasn't been used, and I ended up getting an MBA for writing. I find a laptop more portable than an ipad mini plus keyboard. I don't think having the whole trio is necessary, and the ipad is the one to skip in that case. If I were trying to avoid buying a laptop, the ffull-size IPad that can have a full-size keyboard case would be more usable. I did get a scrunched up IPad Mini keyboard case, but the non-standard typing experience was a non-starter for someone who switches among computers a lot.

I bought an iPad Air and Bridge keyboard last year in expectation of being able to transfer across maybe 80% of what I currently do on my Mac.

It didn't come close, and that was solely down to the horrendous text editing experience for VoiceOver users.

Using a hardware keyboard to navigate through text fields or to select text is pure pain for anything more than the shortest of emails or documents.

If you expect the experience to be remotely similar to on a Mac, think again. If you expect a consistent and reliable experience, think again.

Navigating and selecting by paragraph simply does not work.

Navigating and selecting by line is just about do-able, but the inconsistency of where the cursor will be placed makes for a painful experience.

Navigating and selecting by word or character works. But, boy do you not want to have to rely on this for longer blocks of text.

These appear to be longstanding issues which Apple shows no intent or desire to fix.

This all added up to no good reason to keep that iPad, so I didn't. That's several hundred dollars I won't be seeing again.

I've never really had any problem editing text on an iPad, to be honest, but then, maybe I'm not a very sophisticated text editor or something. I honestly can't ever remember ever bothering to select a whole paragraph at a time, whatever I was editing in, and I've just gotten into the habit, I think, of going to the start of the line when I'm moving up and down with a keyboard.

Whatever. I think I'm the only person in the Voiceover world who loves their iPad, ☺️.