Hi there, I recently bought an ipad pro 11 inch and the apple pencil 2. However, my apple pencil isn’t able to connect to my ipad. I’ve tried putting it on the magnetic bar on the side of the ipad and the tap to connect sign pops up but it isn’t connected by bluetooth + it doesn’t pop up in the bluetooth setting. Please help, thank you.
iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi, Cellular
hi all, I have followed all suggestions in this forum:
after all this I did managed to make it pair: after tapping the pair button, which was unsuccessful, I switched off Bluetooth from settings->Bluetooth and switched backed on. The pencil magically paired again!
hope this helps
This post is about the Apple Pencil 2, NOT the 1st gen Apple Pencil.
The new, 2018, 2nd gen Apple Pencil does not have any other adapters to charge it!
It only charges and connects via a magnetic induction plate on top of the new 2018, 3rd generation iPad Pro.
Your solutions don’t really apply.
Sorry.
Still having this same problem. Just bought new iPad Pro 11 and Apple Pencil 2. Worked great for 1st week... any updates?
Tried all above suggestions already. When I attach the pencil now, Apple Pencil pops up, I tap to connect and I just get a blinking Apple Pencil grey and black. Then it goes away without successful pairing
Apologies for my reckless language previously in this thread. My comment was deleted because of it? As a newbie I wasn't aware of the etiquette. And I certainly wasn't aware that calling complete strangers a tool was more the level of sophistication around here.
My bad.
I'll do better next time t__l.
No problem. Calling someone is a tool is a bit disparaging and against the TOU (Terms of Use) we all agreed to when we joined the forum. So forum moderators remove posts like that. The point of the forum is for users like you and me to help other users with issues they need help with. And while doing it, we strive to show consideration to all users.
Stick around and feel free to ask questions and if you happen to know an answer, help a fellow user out as well.
Ps: I have no reason why you still felt you needed to hide the word you wanted to call me, but that's on you, not me.
My eyesight ain’t what it used to be.
It really doesn't matter.
This support community is not setup for everyone that comes here to be throwing stones at each other.
These support communities are setup by Apple so all of us can try and work through and solve our Apple product issues.
This is not a community to complain, whine and to argue about what Apple does or does not do or to come here to complain and berate others who are trying just to solve an issue or try to help out here with some sage knowledge and sound advice for dealing with an Apple product issue.
It is, also, NOT a place to post random statements of a un-useful, unhelpful, non-technical nature, either!
These technical support communities are just that. For technical support and some subjective advice of a product that is of a technical support nature.
Per Apple’s Terms of Use, we all need to just get along in these product support communities and to maintain a certain level of conduct, civility and decorum.
Thank you all for derailing this thread with useless discussion. Please suggest a fix to the Apple Pencil 2 not connecting which many people are experiencing - see Apple Pencil 2 Reviews on the apple website, there are a couple on reddit, and a few more in this community forum. Why isn’t this being addressed?
You are a new Poster here, too!
No need to be rude, either.
Those of all involved with this little mis-understanding have worked it out for the better.
A simple misunderstanding that was actually not directed to anyone, but myself.
Can anyone else confirm this works for them? I'm hoping there will be a few more confirmations before I wipe all my network info for no reason. I've been having this issue since day 1 I got the pencil. Usually just rebooting iPad worked. Now I'm 7 reboots in and still wont successfully pair. Just flashes the "apple pencil" wording after tapping on it to connect. I have also seen a handful of very similar posts of others having this exact issue. A quick google search reveals many of them. I agree this is not an isolated issue but very common amongst the new pencils. Could be a small percentage, but a small percentage of millions in production is still a lot of people effected.
Thanks for the suggestion skone! This didn’t work for me either however. There was no history of physical drops with mine. It worked for a couple weeks then suddenly I have the same problem as described above. I noticed it after the last iOS update. Hard reboot didn’t work either.
Well, today it started to fail again, and the Apple Pencil button keeps appearing at the top of the screen randomly, without attaching or removing the pencil.
I also just have the iPad Pro 11” since 3 days! This is annoying. Hope it’s the pencil not the iPad (I wonder if so many magnets on the iPad may interfere with the Bluetooth....)
anyone who replaced a defective pencil found the problem persisted? For how long have you tested the new pencil?
This is so irritating! I have a brand new IPad Pro and pencil (1 week old!) it worked the first week andnow all of a sudden the device doesn’t even know its there. I tried out all of these suggestions and nothing works :( including restarting the iPad multiple times, leaving the pencil attached so it can charge, changing the network settings, checking Bluetooth is on etc. What the **** Apple :( !
I wonder why the Original Poster of this post has never returned to this post?
Perhaps the 4 letter word beginning T and ending with L?
Bummer- that Is unfortunate. Was worth a shot. Godspeed.
Same thing, tried all the above. Waiting for that fix....
Apple Pencil 2 won’t connect!
