IPad Air 5 M1 chip overheating

What causes you to believe that your iPad is overheating?

If your iPhone or iPad gets too hot or too cold - Apple Support

It is not unusual for an iPad to become warm when being used - more so when using some types of iPad case. High screen brightness and/or CPU intensive Apps will also create more heat.

The key point is that whilst your iPad may become very warm in normal use, the iPad should not become uncomfortably hot to handle. If your iPad is becoming too hot to hold, you should take your iPad along to the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store - where the technicians can examine and test your iPad for faults.

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

Depending on what you are doing with it the iPad can feel hot- especially with brightness turned all the way up. If brightness is turned up I would turn it down and see if that helps.

My friend’s iPad Air 5 faces the same problem, and she uses it for notes taking and watching videos. Her iPad would heat up to the point it would burn the hands when touched even using for 30min. She had to stop using and let it cool down. Apple support suggested to wait for updates and now after updates it still heats up but isn’t as bad as before. We do not have a solution to it too.