Reset the Apple Pencil.
If you’ve decided you’ve had enough of the
Apple Pencil, or want to move it to another iPad,
you can unpair it. Open Settings, tap Bluetooth
and the Info (“i”) icon next to Apple Pencil. Tap
Forget This Device and OK to remove it from the
iPad Pro with which it’s currently paired so that
you can connect it again with a different iPad.
and iPadOS
The Apple Pencil gets some welcome performance improvements if
your iPad is running the latest version of its operating system, iPadOS.
Before iPadOS, the Apple Pencil had a latency of 20ms,
that is, it took the iPad 20 milliseconds to recognise an
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iPadOS, it’s down to 9ms, making subtle creativity far
easier to achieve.
For developers, Apple introduced ‘PencilKit’, a
programming framework that makes it incredibly easy
for third-party developers to include Pencil support in
their apps. Great news if you prefer a non-Apple note-
taking app.
The Pencil Palette – which is to be made available for
use in third-party apps – has gained a new pixel eraser
for greater precision when erasing Pencil strokes. It can
be placed anywhere on the screen now, instead of being
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Finally, you can take screenshots with an Apple Pencil
by swiping up from the bottom left, or bottom right, of
the screen. This is very convenient if you want to mark
up the screen with Apple Pencil and send it to a friend
or colleague.
With iPadOS, the iPad
Pencil is faster than before.
You can now take a screenshot
by swiping up the screen.
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