Apple pencil charging time. Fast and long lasting

Useful tips

I decided to do Apple review Pencil separately from iPad Pro, since there is something to tell and show about this iGadget. Wherein Apple Pencil is not some kind of serious gadget, it is just an accessory for the iPad Pro. Although how to look at it. Apple Watch is also considered an accessory, but the watch does much less useful functions with iPhone than iPencil with tablet. What are the main questions that interest us regarding the new device:

Apple Pencil review and specifications

Apple Pencil is a pencil for drawing on the iPad Pro tablet. This is a stylus with a built-in mechanism that makes the Apple Pencil work. The mechanism is located at the end of the pencil and reads touches with great accuracy and minimal delay. This is because the built-in mechanism reads the signal at a frequency of 240 times per second and the display captures twice as many points as when touched by a finger. In the stylus market - Apple Pencil for iPad Pro, this The best decision Today. With it you can draw various lines quickly and easily. Apple Pencil was specially created so that it can be used to draw and write normally on the iPad Pro tablet. The pencil is equipped Bluetooth module 4.1 with the help of which it is synchronized with the iPad Pro.

How long does Apple Pencil last?

The Apple Pencil's battery lasts a long time and charges quickly, so there are no problems with autonomy. Apple Pencil lasts 12 hours on a full charge in use mode. And if it is discharged and urgently needed, then in 15 seconds you can charge it for half an hour of work.

You need to charge the Apple Pencil through the Lightning connector, which is located on the back under the cap. It must be inserted into the iPad Pro, which in turn can charge devices connected via Lightning. Not just Apple Pencil. Moreover, even if you have an iPad Pro in a silicone case, the Apple Pencil will fit in easily, because its connector is elongated and can go deeper.

How to find out the charge of iPad Pro?

The fact that the Apple Pencil charges quickly and lasts a long time is all very good. But now you will find out how to find out how much the stylus is charged.

iPad Pro can see charge Apple battery Pencil, if the latter is connected to the iPad Pro via bluetooth. To do this, you need to activate the widget that allows you to see the battery level of the pencil in the curtain (notification center). Call up the curtain, tap on “Edit” under the calendar and select the “Batteries” widget. After this, you will be able to observe the charge level of the Apple Pencil in this place.

You can connect your iPhone or Apple Watch to the iPad Pro and also see the battery level of these devices. It is noteworthy that the widget for viewing the charge level of connected devices via Bluetooth can be called up not only on the iPad but also on the iPhone.

Compatibility of Apple Pencil with other tablets

Can Apple Pencil be used for iPad Mini or iPad Air? Will the Apple Pencil go to the iPhone? Main question, which plagues many consumers of Apple products today. Apple Pencil only works with iPad Pro. Air, Mini, iPhone, Apple android devices Pencil is not supported. This is because the Apple Pencil interacts with the iPad Pro screen, i.e. in other words, this iPad Pro supports Apple Pencil. Other devices do not.

Apple Pencil price

This cunning stylus costs quite a bit – $100. Well, I rounded that up; at Apple, as always, all prices end in 9. Apple price Pencil in the USA is $99, and in Russia – 7790 rubles. In Ukraine, an Apple Pencil costs about three thousand hryvnia, which is unthinkable for any stylus. Although, as Apple assures us, this is not just some kind of stylus, but a full-fledged gadget.

You can buy the Apple Pencil stylus on the official Apple website or in stores that sell Apple equipment. Apple Pencil prices vary by country. Somewhere more expensive, somewhere cheaper. For Americans, 100 bucks is not very expensive, but for us the same 100 bucks at today’s exchange rate is 25 UAH per 1 dollar, this is an absolutely unthinkable price! For 2500-3000 UAH you can buy a used iPhone 4 or iPad 2.

How to Draw with Apple Pencil

Instructions on how to use, draw, write Apple Pencil for beginners.

In principle, everything is extremely simple. You need to remember the main points and that’s it. The Apple Pencil stylus for iPad Pro responds to pressure and angle. Well, then, act as your imagination pleases. If you want to make the line bolder, then simply press harder with the stylus on the screen and you will get a bold line. If you want a thinner line, then press easier. If you need to make a line with a fade, tilt the Apple Pencil a little and you will get the effect of a real pencil.

Repairability of Apple Pencil

The guys from iFixit took apart the Apple Pencil to find out how repairable this pencil is. Well, at the same time we’ll look at the structure of the Apple Pencil. The cap that covers the lightning connector on the pencil is held on by a magnet, so it can be easily lost. Be careful if you buy. The tip is removable. Apple included another one in the kit, so if anything happens, you can easily replace it manually. He gets out.

Overall, the Apple Pencil is not repairable. Getting to the insides to repair something is not possible without mechanical damage. You'll have to cut the pencil and take everything out. The battery cannot be easily replaced either. So you work with the Apple Pencil until your battery dies. Well, she won't die soon. But after 3 years, the Apple Pencil will wear out faster than a new one. Therefore, the only solution is to bury it in the yard and buy a new one.

What impressed me most was the board built into the Apple Pencil. It weighs only 1 gram - it's amazing! There’s so much stuff placed there and it all works clearly – that’s progress!

Introducing Apple Pencil

Video: general idea Apple Pencil. Original video with voice acting by Jony Ive.

The announced Apple Pencil for iPad Pro caused only bewilderment among some skeptical critics: how can you present a stylus to the public in 2015? However, Apple developers had their own views on the use of this device, which were then shared by everyone else. This short review all the features of the Apple Pencil will show that new development from the guys from Silicon Valley - far from a stylus or even a pencil.

WITH using Apple Pencil and iPad Pro let you create amazing designs

A stylus is a stick that can be used to “poke” touch screen to control the interface. I warned against this a long time ago Steve Jobs, stating that GUI must be adapted for “poking” with fingers. Apple Pencil, on the other hand, takes a different path - it is an extremely convenient interactive tool that has a wide range of capabilities and is not designed for just pressing virtual buttons on your iPad.

Response speed

The main feature that the creators prioritize. Yes, various tools have already been created that allow you to be creative in virtual space. But Apple’s “pencil” is capable of leaving a mark on paper, that is, on the screen, much faster.

Points that are recorded iPad display when working with Apple Pencil, twice as much as a finger touch. The contact is scanned at a huge frequency: 240 times per second. For any professional, the absence of delays will be very important.

Pressure regulation

Another proof that you cannot equate the stylus, finger and device for the iPad Pro. You can only lightly drag a “pencil” across the display: then the drawn line will be barely noticeable. You can do this with force: then you will see a thick stroke on the screen.

The sensors that determine the pressure applied, unlike the iPhone 6S/7, are located not in the iPad, but in the “pencil” itself. This makes it possible to apply a much wider variety of effects. The pen will draw exactly what you want to see.

Tilt matters

Sensors in the interactive pen and Multi-Touch display allow you to accurately determine your tilt. So the trace on the screen changes if you tilt your Apple Pencil slightly. Do shading: try going over Apple Pencil from different angles and get a different effect each time and, accordingly, a different pattern.

Rest as you feel comfortable

There is no need to be afraid to “scratch” your palm across the screen and ruin the drawing. After all, the iPad Pro will distinguish between hand touches and interactive pen touches. Professionals wear gloves when working with graphics tablets. Here, as you can see, this is not necessary.

Access to any creativity

Apple Pencil, for all its uniqueness, is universal tool. Even if you are an ardent conservative, the device will surprise you. Whatever techniques you use for drawing, the “pencil” can easily reproduce them.

Many professional artists have tried this gadget and were very pleased with it. The resulting drawings were practically no different from those that were made traditional method on paper. And it allows you to try out even more features and effects of Apple Pencil for iPad Pro.

Working hours

The more prosaic characteristics of the device are also excellent. The Apple Pencil is charged using the Lightning connector, which is located at the tip of the device. To charge, you need to connect it to the iPad. Operating time is up to 12 hours. The developers also assure that 15 seconds of charging will be enough for 30 minutes of work. Yes, in practice a less impressive result is possible, but 12 hours is more than enough work.

How to connect Apple Pencil to iPad Pro? It connects to the iPad when Bluetooth assistance 4.0. The charge level is not displayed on the device itself, but when connected, a corresponding widget will appear on the tablet screen, which will show how many percent are left until the battery runs out.

A few more characteristics that make you love this device

Ease. Apple Pencil is made of white plastic. It is very comfortable to hold it in your hand also because it is quite light. At the same time, the low weight did not affect the hardness in any way, which is confirmed by various crash tests.
Minimalism. Everything here is Apple style: a small oblong box containing the device itself, several instructions, an additional tip and an adapter for a standard Lightning cable.
Dimensions. Apple Pencil is the same length as a regular pencil or pen. Therefore, you will have to get used to the new gadget much less.

Where can you use Apple Pencil?

Here are a few applications that will help you realize your creative potential to one degree or another:

Notes. Standard supports this device perfectly. Notes has several modes that let you draw with a pen, marker, or pencil. Of course, this application is not suitable for professional use, but it is quite suitable for entertainment and for sharpening your skills.
Procreate. This application has been specially adapted for new iPad Pro. There is also a mode for “pencil”. Procreate 3 will allow you to create much more valuable works of art than Notes.
Astropad Graphics Tablet. The program makes an iPad Graphics tablet. With its help, when connected to a Mac, you can work with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom and other popular editors.
Paper. Paper from Fifty Three is already a full-fledged notepad, which is also fully adapted for the new device. With this application it will be very easy to do simple things, create graphs, charts, drawings, presentations and much more.
Adobe Comp. Several Adobe apps have been optimized specifically for the iPad Pro. In Adobe Comp you can work with various sketches, professional vector and raster graphics, easily create layouts and templates, and then import them into “big” Adobe programs: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign.

Who is Apple Pencil for?

Here it is worth facing the truth. At its price, which today is seven and a half thousand rubles (and if we add to this iPad cost Pro 12.9”), you don’t want to buy an Apple Pencil as a toy. The interactive pen will be used by professionals for whom this price in exchange for such high level the quality will not seem high. Few people can afford such a device for entertainment.

Apple has once again established a common standard that is gradually coming into use. Apple Pencil is not a stylus, but a highly precise and handy tool. It’s only a matter of time before all the leaders in creative activity switch to it, and other companies start releasing something similar. And on currently enough has already appeared a large number of analogues.

For some reason, many believed that one of the key iPad functions Pro comes with the presence of a stylus, which they call Apple Pencil, although the company strongly emphasizes that this is not a stylus at all, but something else, for example, a pencil, as the name suggests. The reason for the dislike of the word “stylus” is clear. Apple founder Steve Jobs argued that all management is touch devices companies will be carried out by hand, and the stylus is a relic of the past. Steve Jobs is no more, which means that the current leaders of the company can release whatever they want, which is what they are doing. Nevertheless, you still have to give explanations for your ingenious discoveries, otherwise the crowd of fans will remain perplexed and do not know what to tell others about the next great invention. Jonathan Ive, who hasn’t come up with anything interesting or worthwhile in the last few years, in an interview with Wallpaper Magazine explained why and how the idea for the pencil came about, here is his direct speech: “We realized that there is a clearly defined group of people that can appreciate a tool that will allow them to draw or sketch, but not in the same way as drawing with their fingers. And I suspect it’s a large group of people.”

Almost five years after its release first note, the launch of this line from Samsung and the rise of its popularity, Apple suddenly saw that there was a niche in the market for those who loved to draw. And we decided to make our own product. There was no need to invent anything here, since all kinds of styluses for Apple tablets were produced by many companies, but they all suffered from one drawback - they were poke sticks, while other manufacturers created full-fledged devices input that responds to pressure, pen tilt and other “little things”. In particular, such devices include all styluses from Samsung, as well as the stylus for Microsoft Surface, which latest versions tablets are part of the standard supply. Once again, Apple is entering a market with its solution, where there are already analogues that have passed long haul in several generations. If Apple had not ignored the experience of others, they could have created their own “pencil” completely different, and it would have been much more useful for users iPad tablets, but everything turned out differently, the story developed as usual.

Let's start with the fact that the Apple Pencil is additional accessory, is sold separately from the iPad Pro and is positioned as an optional part of the tablet. This accessory is not for everyone, and the fact that it receives so much attention is solely due to the company's successful PR efforts. Every day there are more and more revelations from designers and developers user interfaces, as well as those who design cars, planes and ships, in which these people admit that they had no life before, and with the advent of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, for the first time they were able to work fully, and not as they did before Togo. Of course, in this PR hubbub there are also adequate reviews, but they are often drowned in the delight of those who have never worked with a stylus and for whom the Apple Pencil is their first such experience.

The price of the Apple Pencil in the USA is $99 excluding taxes, in Russia - 7,790 rubles, which makes this pencil, if not gold, then close to it. On the other hand, professional styluses from Wacom are not cheap, but they are a completely different class of product, and their consumers know exactly what they are paying for. This is not a mass-produced toy for bored people who want to depict something on their tablet screen. I doubt that professionals in graphics, design and the like will start using the Apple Pencil en masse, it all comes down to force of habit, but the main thing is the software that will be available to work with the pen. As for the software, everything is very sad so far, but more on that later.

So, we take the Pencil out of the box, open the cap at the top end and see the Lightning connector. The box shows how it needs to be inserted into the tablet to recharge.

Forgive me, but this is pornography in the literal and figurative sense. Apple engineers lost all their skills, as they created a visually ugly, bad and unreliable solution; in this position, it is not difficult to break off the connector. And they sincerely warn about this! Caring, crooked creators of the Apple Pencil, who quickly realized that their solution was not very good, and therefore added an adapter to the kit for charging the pencil from a computer or from the network. This is a small adapter, we plug it in on one side regular charging from iPhone/iPad, on the other hand - the pencil itself. Adapter! For the stylus! If Steve Jobs were alive, he would have had a very harsh conversation with Jonathan Ive, after which the latter would have rushed to fix and redo everything.

I didn’t dare post a photo of what it looks like when charging, I was afraid that we would be closed for pornography, so look at this moment in the video, everything is shown there. But I can say one thing, Apple engineers exceeded my worst assumptions, they made the pencil in the worst way possible. The same stylus on MS Surface does not require charging and works great with the built-in software. But more on that later.

Apple's pencil is glossy, and if your hands are wet, it starts to slip. No rough surfaces; a creative tool should be smooth and gliding, both on the surface and in human hands. Speaking seriously, it is clear that it is not for nothing that the majority of those who produce styluses do not make them smooth, but prefer a rough body. Let's guess why. Apparently, they value the ergonomics of the device higher than its appearance, but Apple does exactly the opposite.

From an ergonomic point of view, the Apple Pencil has another drawback - it does not attach to the iPad body. It is magnetized from the bottom, but the attractive force is not enough, so you won’t be able to wear it like that. You will have to carry it somewhere else, but not with the device. This is silly? In my opinion, this is damn stupid and short-sighted, and most importantly, inconvenient. But you can deny quite obvious things and say that this is correct and the only way it is necessary.

Now about the good and pleasant. The Apple Pencil only works with the iPad Pro; it cannot be connected to other tablets. The reason is that the company slightly changed the screen technology to support such a stylus. I don’t know whether it will be supported in other products, but it is justified only on large diagonals; on the iPad Mini, for example, the pencil makes little sense.

We insert the pencil to charge, and immediately the iPad Pro offers us to synchronize the device via Bluetooth and connect it. We agree. In notifications you can find a widget that shows the charge level of your Apple Pencil. The company claims that a fully charged pencil will last about 12 hours, with 15 seconds giving you a runtime of 30 minutes. Full Apple charger Pencil from iPad will take about 45-50 minutes. In principle, this is a small problem; charging this stylus from time to time will not be difficult. Upon reaching low level charge, a corresponding warning will appear.

Eat back side a medal that no one thinks about or pays attention to. At using Apple Pencil iPad Pro power consumption increases. After half an hour of working on the screen, the battery loses 7-8 percent of its charge. For comparison, watching a movie at maximum brightness eats up 10% per hour. Feel the difference and differences.

Software - all the names are familiar

Apple's stylus understands up to 2048 degrees of pressure, as well as horizontal deviation. This means that by pressing it you can make lines thicker, and by tilting the pencil you can create shading. And in this way it resembles an ordinary pencil, which is very good.

But now is the time to talk about which programs support working with the Apple Pencil and how. With it you can move around the screen and select icons. And there are no problems here, everything works. Another thing is that creativity requires programs that can work with the Apple Pencil, and there are already more than a dozen such programs. For example, in standard notes you can write by hand, but your text will not be recognized; there is simply no such function in iOS9. This is the first disappointment, no handwriting or typing this way, this pencil is for creativity, not for boring handwritten notes.

I tried a dozen programs that were recommended to me App Store for a pencil, most of them already had stylus support, that is the emergence of Apple Pencil didn't come as a surprise. For example, in Evernote it has long been possible to enter notes by hand; on the iPad you could draw with your finger, as, indeed, this can still be done now. It’s approximately the same in each of the programs; the Apple Pencil does not provide any special accuracy; you draw exactly the same as you drew before, with the same programs or similar input devices.

I conducted a small experiment and asked my colleague, who is interested in drawing, to try out the device and give her opinion. She enthusiastically began to draw from a photograph taken on one of her trips, but very quickly put her Apple Pencil aside and said the following: “I don’t really need it, here you can draw it all by hand in the program, some parts are probably more difficult.” than usual, but not fundamentally more difficult.” After chatting about this topic, I realized a simple thing: to draw, you don’t need a miracle device, you only need desire, and the choice of tool is secondary. The surface of the device cannot replace paper, its quality and other sensations, since it is not only the pencil, brush or paint that is important, it is how they interact with the paper and what result you get. In theory, it would be possible to emulate paper in software, but no one has done this yet.

All the software that I tried can be used with any stylus; the Apple device is extremely simple and does not have any special functions. Moreover, there is no integration into operating system No. And this puts an end to the most popular use cases that have emerged from the Note line in almost five years of its existence. For example, people often cut something out of pictures and send it by mail, adding annotations to such pictures. And on the same Note, this can be done in a matter of seconds, there is an option “write on the screen”, you instantly get a screenshot, which you decorate to the best of your ability. Or you can cut out a piece of a picture and simultaneously recognize the text on it, send both the picture and the text from it, in any language. But this is already like this high class, that I won’t even talk about it, since Apple in this case looks like a poor relative. The key advantage of Note is deep integration stylus for everything you can do on your device. It was created not only and not so much for those who draw, but for everyone who wants to gain new opportunities, and the device provides these opportunities to the fullest. It is possible that they are not always needed, but sometimes they are necessary and very useful.

What's with the stylus integration on MS Surface? Exactly the same story, at Microsoft, oddly enough, they understand that the stylus itself is not important, it is necessary to integrate it into the system, for example, to make it possible to launch OneNote with one click, enter handwritten text or drawings, and recognize all this. If necessary, erase without resorting to additional movements and pressing the button on the stylus. And on the same Surface Pro 4, the stylus is attached magnetically to the body, it can be carried along with the device. It turns out that Microsoft's engineers are much better than those at Apple, where they were unable to implement the simplest function, although they themselves came up with a lot of chips with magnets during the time of Steve Jobs.

Also a slightly different level of software and binding of the stylus to the system. Why is this so? Probably the answer lies in what people think, why and why they do it, and to whom it might be important. They are working on use cases. At Apple, they don’t do this, but rest on their laurels. In fact, by copying other people's products, Apple brings nothing to them, and the implementation from an engineering point of view is the worst possible. Why is that? We relaxed, there is no owner inside the company who would monitor how everything should work.

I wonder how Apple release Pencil, many “leading world publications” discovered this topic and began writing about it. And it doesn’t matter that dozens of styluses existed before, and the software initially supported them, including on the iPad. It doesn't matter that the only advantage of the Apple Pencil in the small stylus market is the name of the manufacturer, and not anything else. The main thing is that the company was able to create a myth that time after time it produces successful products that are needed by millions. And it doesn’t matter at all that the same watch didn’t take off and Apple doesn’t say anything about it in terms of real numbers. It doesn't matter that the iPad Pro is a very niche device with an idea that was stolen from Samsung and Microsoft, with a little bit of each. And it’s not so important that no one thought to charge a hundred dollars for a stylus. On the other hand, you have to pay for stupidity. Apple believes that stupidity is worth a hundred dollars. And it's the right price.

As an additional comment, a review of the Apple Pencil from our UI/UX design reader.

This accessory, like a drop of water, reflects where the company is going and how its helmsmen have relaxed and rested on their laurels. Is not best product, which was released by Apple, however, over the past couple of years it’s difficult for me to name something that would attract attention. Copying other people's ideas, poor implementation, but for now Apple can afford it. But the credit of trust is a rather fragile thing, it can disappear.

We thank UP-house.ru for providing the Apple pencil.

Personal experience after 48 hours of use.

What we have been waiting for for so long has come true. Apple released the iPad Pro, we wrote, and two weeks later the guys from Onlyphones.ru offered to plunge into the world of fine art and test all the capabilities of the Apple Pencil stylus.

What is “iPencil” capable of, is it worth the candle and how is life? iPad owner Pro who got his hands on the Apple Pencil? Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the stylus.

Reason #1: no delays

For people who use the computer as a professional tool, the greatest enemy of all time remains delay. The sound engineer struggles to minimize the time it takes to convert sound from analog to digital; the designer wins back precious milliseconds by making the next stroke on the graphics tablet. Apple Pencil has no such shortcomings.

As soon as you touch the iPad Pro's huge screen with the tip of the stylus, it instantly responds to your touch. The lines turn out clear and even, and the artist has the feeling that they are drawing on a slate board or a piece of parchment. Response speed This accessory has the highest praise, and the signal reading frequency reaches 240 times per second.

Reason #2: very sensitive

Despite the small size, comparable to the size of a regular ballpoint pen, Apple Pencil is stuffed with all sorts of sensors that ensure its smooth and trouble-free operation. The stylus distinguishes not only pressing force(up to 2048 degrees), but also the angle of inclination.

By setting a slight tilt, you can quickly shade a fragment of the drawing, as when working with a regular pencil.

Reason #3: long lasting

Inside the Apple Pencil there is a miniature battery, the capacity of which is only 80 mAh. Despite such a small size, after fully charged stylus ready for 12 o'clock continuous operation.

Moreover, universal Charger for Apple Pencil at your fingertips. The gadget is equipped with a traditional Lightning port, and easy connection to the appropriate iPad port Pro for just 15 seconds will give the stylus 30 minutes of work. Full charging time is about 50 minutes.

For charging via a regular network, a miniature adapter is provided: an Apple Pencil is inserted on one side, and a Lightning cable on the other.

Reason #4: the palm is not the enemy

Even an experienced artist knows the consequences of touching a drawing with the palm of his hand to a drawing just drawn with a slate or charcoal pencil. This is the case when the hands that created the drawing can ruin it. Apple has provided for this too.

Despite the fact that, according to all the “laws of the genre” of capacitive screen technology, it must respond to the touch of a human hand, when working with the Apple Pencil, you can touch the screen with the edge of your palm, leaning on the tablet screen as if on regular sheet paper. The tablet will not go berserk from this action, and the clarity of the stylus will not deteriorate at all.

Reason #5: works through “obstacles”

One more thing I'm curious about Apple features Pencil is worth considering the ability to work through a sheet of paper. Let's assume that you want to copy as accurately as possible a fragment of an original drawing printed on paper.

To do this, just attach the sheet to iPad screen Pro and trace all the required contours. The tablet counts all the touches of the stylus, despite the fact that between the screen and the tip of the pen there is an impromptu obstacle - a sheet of paper.

Reason #6: instead of a finger

The main purpose of the Apple Pencil is drawing. However, the stylus is compatible with almost all actions that you usually perform when touching the tablet with your fingers.

Open links, launch applications, scroll, interact with menu items, print (support for third party keyboards and keyboards that provide handwriting input) - Apple Pencil can do it all. The limitations of the accessory include the inability to open the Notification Center, Control Center, or switch to Slide Over or Split View. Most likely, this limitation is purely software in nature, but “Apple decided so.”

Reason #7: Application Support

For implementation indeed good product The ingenuity of engineers and the bright vision of a designer are not enough. Need software support. The number of apps compatible with the Apple Pencil is growing exponentially.

Already today the following are compatible with the Apple stylus: Pixelmator, Adobe Comp CC, Paper, Adobe Phoroshop Mix, Adobe Photoshop Fix, AutoCAD 360, Autodesk SketchBook, Evernote, Adobe Illustrator Draw, Canva and a number of other applications. The inclusion of stylus support by developers allows not only to optimize the interaction of the accessory with the interface, but also to enable support for iOS functions such as Split View.

A little about the sad

Ask any marketer and he will confidently answer that the “ideal product” does not exist. Apple Pencil was no exception, and the list of disadvantages of the “Apple pencil” looks something like this:

The stylus is compatible only and only with the iPad Pro. It will not work with other devices, including Apple products.
Unavailable multitasking. Apple Pencil does not allow you to switch to Split View and Slide Over modes - the main innovations of iOS 9. You can only make this transition using your finger.
No eraser. Users familiar with alternative styluses that work with capacitive screens, one of the advantages of this category of products is the presence of an eraser. Touch the screen with the other end of the stylus and activate the eraser mode. Apple Pencil doesn't have this option.
Apple Pencil does not support multi-touch gestures. However, not a single stylus can do this.

A skeptical user will probably classify Apple’s latest development as “expensive and unnecessary toys.” A professional designer or artist, being a creative person, will think about purchasing an Apple Pencil, because the desire to experiment is the main engine of creativity. A fan of Apple products and a user who has been waiting for " large iPad", will take the stylus without a doubt.

Where to buy Apple Pencil? We suggest stopping at the online store Onlyphones.ru. Firstly, it is available today; secondly, among the impressive range of accessories for Apple devices, you will definitely want to buy “something else”.

The downside is that after drawing in this application, the vector has to be cleaned up quite a bit, since a lot of extra points are formed. On the plus side, you can drag a picture from your iPad directly into Illustrator with the press of one button, and it’s incredibly convenient!

There is also a very cool drawing application called Procreate - it is also free, it costs about $6, and, unlike Adobe Draw, you can only draw a raster, which then needs to be converted into a vector. There are a lot of settings, brushes and other nice things, but for me personally, drawing there, as they say, didn’t work out, I don’t know why (but I know that many people adore it).

#2 PROCESSING CONTOURS

True, for this method to work, you will need additional application, which is called Astropad and costs money. With this application you can “cast” your computer screen to your iPad. That is, by launching Illustrator and the Astropad application, you can turn the iPad Pro into a kind of Syntic (for those who don’t know, this is a graphics tablet from Wacom that allows you to draw “directly on yourself”).

If you already have Syntik, again, this cleaning method will not surprise you. But since my role is played by the Wacom Bamboo, which lies on the side of the computer and does not have its own screen (that is, it essentially works as a more convenient semblance of a mouse), I really liked being able to edit “directly on the screen” using the iPad Pro.

In theory, you can draw just the same way - right in Illustrator, but when working through Astropad, there is still a slight delay in the appearance of lines, and therefore I prefer to use this application for “finishing” pictures. I open the image after the trace in Illustrator, connect the iPad via a USB cable (this makes the connection more reliable), launch Astropad and use the pencil tool to edit the lines. On the downside, in the CC version the selection is constantly canceling itself, so you have to keep one hand on the keyboard to press CMD + A (and who came up with the idea of canceling the saving of the selection when working with this tool? Obviously some evil person)

#3 RECORDING THE DRAWING PROCESS

Nowadays, videos are trending, showing how quickly, easily and coolly you draw. Well, or even not cool, but you draw - everyone likes to watch accelerated process. Therefore, if you are thinking about how to promote yourself on social networks, then recording a video of the drawing process is it. I must admit, I’m ignoring this trend for now - not because I don’t understand its importance, but rather because in my current habitat it’s too dark to shoot decent videos (and it’s already a little cold to draw outside). Well, I have a terrible habit of hanging over the drawing, which greatly complicates the process of shooting top view (one top of my head is visible, which, as I found out, is not very photogenic for me :)).

And yes, you can record the process without an iPad Pro. But it’s cool when I drew a picture and recorded a video :)