Both new iPads only support the original Apple Pencil (but they work with Logitech’s Crayon)
Apple today released a dyad of novel tablets—an iPad Air 2 successor along alongside a fifth-generation iPad mini—with Apple Pencil back upward existence 1 of their main novel features, simply the devices alone run alongside the first-generation Apple stylus, which costs $99.
The novel mini is the smallest iPad to back upward the older-generation Pencil. While every iPad that Apple straight off sells includes stylus support, alone iPad Pros back upward the latest Apple Pencil 2.
Support for the second-generation Apple Pencil is non mentioned anywhere inwards Apple’s press unloose nor on its website. All the images on the new iPad Air as well as iPad mini five webpages demo the master copy Pencil alongside a footnote maxim “The first-generation Apple Pencil sold separately”.
In other words, neither the third-generation iPad Air nor iPad mini five has a magnet for charging as well as attaching the second-generation Apple stylus, which costs $129.
This has been confirmed past times The Verge:
Like the entry-level iPad did end year, iPad mini has gained back upward for Apple Pencil. Unfortunately, it’s for the master copy version of the Pencil, which inelegantly charges through the device’s Lightning port.
The newest iPad Pros back upward an updated version of the Pencil that tin wirelessly accuse off the tablet itself, later magnetically attaching to the tablet’s side. It’s a lot nicer, simply presumably would accept required redesigning the iPad mini.
An update to the iWork productivity suite adjacent calendar week will bring enhanced Apple Pencil back upward inwards Pages, Numbers as well as Keynote. In Keynote, you’ll move able to depict an animation path for whatsoever object as well as there’s going to move an all-new interface for construct effects such every bit deed as well as scale.
As noted past times Jeff Benjamin of 9to5Mac, the 2 novel iPads introduced this morn also file every bit the get-go novel models since the sixth-generation iPad (2018) to have Logitech Crayon support.
Logitech Crayon is an choice to Apple Pencil, which uses closed to of the same applied scientific discipline every bit Apple’s stylus as well as comes alongside disceptation support, even as well as then lacks pressure-sensitivity. The Crayon features upward to 7 hours of battery life on a total accuse as well as yields 30 minutes of battery life from a brief two-minute charge.
The cost of the Crayon, inwards relation to Apple Pencil, presents an advantage. The Crayon costs $70, 30 dollars cheaper than the first-generation Apple Pencil. The Crayon also features automobile connect, eliminating the bespeak for finicky Bluetooth pairing that’s sometimes associated alongside the master copy Apple Pencil.
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One matter the Crayon lacks: Apple Pencil’s describe per unit of measurement area sensitivity.
There’s no denying the novel iPads accept gained closed to of the features that used to move reserved for iPad Pros, namely True Tone display applied scientific discipline alongside broad coloring support, simply nosotros definitely didn’t come across iPad mini alongside its smallish 7.9-inch display picking upward back upward for the Apple stylus.
As The Loop’s Dave Mark noted, the novel iPad mini alongside back upward for Apple Pencil seems “achingly close” to Apple Pencil back upward for the larger iPhone.
The enquiry is, would yous similar Apple Pencil back upward on your iPhone?
Image move on of postal service via Apple CEO Tim Cook
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