
#DOES IPAD WORKS WITH APPLE PENCIL 2ND GEN HOW TO#
How to connect an Apple PencilĬompared to some other peripherals like headphones or wearables, an Apple Pencil is super easy to connect to your slate, as your iPad will do most of the work automatically.įirst of all, make sure Bluetooth is enabled on your iPad, otherwise the stylus won’t work.

If you’ve bought an Apple Pencil and want to know how to make the most of it, here are some tips and guides on how to properly work the stylus. It could also detect how hard you’re gripping it, so squeezing it would trigger certain functions. We’ve also heard the Apple Pencil 3 could have haptic feedback, which means the stylus would vibrate or shake to tell you certain things. The same rumor also posited that there could be a camera on the Apple Pencil 3, though we’re not exactly sure what purpose that would serve. One rumor suggested there could be a touch-sensitive panel on the side of the next stylus, that would let you swipe in directions to access certain tools or, for example, scroll through web pages. We’re not totally sure if this is correct, since the Apple Pencil 2 has only so far been compatible with two tablets compared to eight for the original, but it’s certainly possible.
#DOES IPAD WORKS WITH APPLE PENCIL 2ND GEN PRO#
Sounds like a stylus version of Touch ID to us.There are rumors that Apple is working on an Apple Pencil 3 for its new iPad Pro 2020 models. The touch sensitive device can also display or speak the authentication result to the user.” For example, the touch sensitive device can authenticate the user of the stylus and can accept stylus input if the user is authenticated and deny stylus input if the user is not. The touch sensitive device can then perform some action based on the identification. The MCU can transmit the user identification to the touch sensitive device. One last titbit from patent 9,329,703’s detailed description: “…the MCU can extract fingerprints from the touch measurement and can identify the user of the stylus. This has come to light in a minor way with the double tap feature, but the patent describes further uses that we could see in a future Pencil. They could also detect how much pressure is being used in order to control scrolling or zooming, or use pinching as a way to ‘pick up’ and move on-screen objects. The sensors could be used to detect touch gestures along the device, as well as when the Pencil is being rotated. Returning to patent 9,329,703, Apple also mentions the possibility of turning the back end of the Apple Pencil into an eraser.įrom the detailed description: “For the additional contact/proximity sensor at the stylus non-tip end, the MCU can determine the stylus’s condition at the non-tip end as touching or hovering over a surface, e.g., to emulate an eraser.”Īnother Apple patent, originally filed in Q4 2014 but published in February 2017, reveals plans for an Apple pencil with multiple touch and force sensors along the body of the device. “The ability to provide information beyond simply touch input information, particularly information about the stylus’s condition that the stylus determines itself, gives this stylus an intelligence absent from a traditional stylus.” Eraser function “The stylus 110 can include multiple sensors to provide information about its condition, where the sensors can be selectively used alone or in various combinations,” reads the patent’s detailed description.

Patent 9,329,703, filed in 2011 and published on, describes an “intelligent stylus” where each nib has its own sensor, which pairs with a separate sensor in the body of the stylus. (You can buy replacement nibs for the Apple Pencil but they’re always the same default size and shape.)Īn Apple patent has been discovered, however, which suggests that future Apple Pencils may offer a similar feature. Interchangeable replacement nibs of various sizes and shapes. (And are marketed at business users.) But the stylus for the Surface Pro 4, while weaker in many respects than the Apple Pencil, has one clear advantage: the option to buy Like most tech journalists, I suspect that the development and launch of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro was at least partly a response to the relative success of Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets, which also have large screens and latterly come with styluses. Wei Feng, the Chinese-language site already quoted in the release date section, writes: “The so-called Apple Pencil 2 will have what kind of characteristics? According to the supply chain, the answer is ‘compatible with a large number of applications’.” Interchangeable tips/nibs It’s possible this is the case with the Apple Pencil 2, but we haven’t got confirmation on that yet. It’s desperately vague at the moment, but word on the street suggests Apple is focusing on expanding the range of applications with optimised support for the Apple Pencil.
