{"id":899373,"date":"2026-10-30T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899373\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:34:12","slug":"apple-avoids-showing-pinched-fingers-on-ipad-mini-page-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899373\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Avoids Showing Pinched Fingers on iPad Mini Page in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S. and most other countries, Apple&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad-mini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shows<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/26\/apple-announces-ipad-mini-with-oled-display\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new iPad mini<\/a> being held by pinched fingers, but this is not the case in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Pinched-iPad-Mini.jpg\"   alt=\"Pinched iPad Mini\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074476\"\/>The new iPad mini shown with pinched fingers on Apple&#8217;s website in the U.S.<br \/>On its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/kr\/ipad-mini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Korean website<\/a>, Apple simply shows an image of the iPad mini on its own.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iPad Mini South Korea Website\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074478 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/iPad-Mini-South-Korea-Website.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1600\/900\"\/>The new iPad mini shown without pinched fingers on Apple&#8217;s website in South Korea<br \/>Apple also omitted the pinched fingers from its South Korean website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/kr\/iphone-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for the iPhone Air<\/a> in 2025, but they remain visible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on its U.S. website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In South Korea, a pinched-fingers gesture or emoji has reportedly been interpreted by some as a symbol used to mock the size of men&#8217;s genitals.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not commented on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Stories<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/26\/apple-announces-ipad-mini-with-oled-display\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Announces New iPad Mini With 8.5-Inch OLED Display, A20 Pro Chip, and More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple today announced a new iPad mini with a larger 8.5-inch OLED display, a nano-texture display option, a thinner and lighter design, an A20 Pro chip, a new Acoustic Display audio system that eliminates speaker holes, IP67-rated water and dust resistance, a landscape front camera, Apple&#8217;s N1 chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 support, and more. Altogether, Apple says this amounts to the iPad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/08\/apple-october-27-macbook-pro\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple to Launch Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro and OLED iPad mini on October 27<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple will introduce new OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro models and an OLED iPad mini &#8220;on or around&#8221; Tuesday, October 27, reports Bloomberg. The launch will also include an M6 14-inch MacBook Pro and an M6 iMac.&#13;The October 27 follows Apple&#8217;s October 13 debut of a new smart home hub, a revamped Apple TV 4K, and a refreshed HomePod mini. Earlier this month, MacRumors reported that Apple would do &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/10\/15\/apple-inviting-media-to-october-28-experience\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Now Inviting Media to October 28 &#8216;Launch Experience&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple has begun inviting selected members of the media to a product launch experience in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 28, according to Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman.&#13;In a post on X, Gurman described the gathering as an &#8220;all-day product launch experience&#8221; for touchscreen MacBooks, a new iPad mini, and Macs equipped with M6 chips.&#13;Gurman previously reported that Apple would introduce the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the U.S. and most other countries, Apple&#8217;s website shows the new iPad mini being held by pinched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[52294,74],"class_list":["post-899373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ipad-mini","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}