If you only use an Apple Pencil occasionally, you need to make sure the Apple Pencil is constantly charge up to some significant battery level ALL THE TIME!
You cannot store Apple Pencils for any prolonged period of time and NOT keep them charged up to some level.
If your Apple Pencil/s sat around unused or unopened and not kept charged up, then the battery in your Apple Pencil may have failed and is dead and you will have to purchase another
And it looks like some things about the Apple Pencil have NOT changed in the new version 2 model, either.
FYI and something Apple never divulges to it potential iPad Pro/Apple Pencil customers/users unless the potential customer/user is smart enough to ask about.
Due to the “always on and active/standby” nature of the Apple Pencil and, also, due to its very tiny rechargeable Li-
ion battery ( smaller than the eraser head on a REAL wooden pencil ), the Apple Pencil needs to be constantly charged up to some significant charge level ALL THE TIME, even when not using the Pencil for prolonged periods of time.
The Apple Pencil needs to be kept charged to a minimum of 5-10% all the time.
If the Apple Pencil battery is allowed to drain down to 0% and allowed to stay in that flat condition for more than a few weeks, or so, OR EVEN LONGER, that very tiny little Li-ion battery is too small to keep at a 0% state for a long period of time and it will fail and the Apple Pencil will be dead and you may have to “pop” for another $99 Apple Pencil, once again!
Apple only has a one-year warranty on any Apple accessory items.
You need to keep your Apple Pencil charged all the time, even if it is only to 10%-15% charge. It must keep some charge level in that tiny Lithium-ion battery at all times!
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To use the Adonit Pixel with your iPad ( which I use on my own nearly 4-1/2 year old, 12.9 inch screen iPad Pro as the Pixel had been ONLY compatible with the 2015/2016 iPad Pro models for years! ), you have to stick to using Adonit Pixel compatible apps ONLYfrom the iOS App Store.
Only Adobe Photoshop Sketch and Illustrator Draw are compatible with the Pixel.
Adonit does not specify the Pixel as compatible with the 6th gen iPad or any Apple Pencil compatible iPads, any longer, either!
Adonit is limiting the Pixel stylus to older iPads that are NOT Apple Pencil compatible, now!
So, this may explain why the Adonit Pixel is not working well with your iPad 6th generation model.
The Adonit Pixel is no longer listed as compatible with Procreate, either and it used to be.
Also, my iPad Pro is running an older iOS version, so my version of Procreate is an older version that while still has no “official” support for the Adonit Pixel, under the Bluetooth stylus options in my version of Procreate, there is an unsupported stylus option and it is this option that still allows my Adonit Pixel to still work as it used to in Procreate.
This “unsupported stylus” option may no longer be available in your newer version of Procreate.
The Adonit Pixel appears to NOT be compatible with your 2018, 6th gen iPad.
I checked the compatibility list on Adonit’s Website.
Here is the Adonit stylus that IS compatible with your 2018, 6th gen iPad.
The brand new Adonit Note
https://www.adonit.net/note/
The Adonit Note has no pressure sensitivity, but appears to have natural palm rejection technology built-in/
Once again, you MUST stick to the available compatible Adonit Note apps.
It looks like support for Procreate is coming for this new Adonit stylus, though.
https://www.adonit.net/jot-ready-apps/
Also, since we are discussing Procreate here, you may want to really take a look at Art Studio Pro, in the iOS App Store, as this app is Procreate’s ONLY DIRECT competitor!
Art Studio/Art Studio Pro has been with the iPad since the very first 2010, iPad 1.
Artstudio Pro: Draw Paint Edit by Lucky Clan
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/artstudio-pro-draw-paint-edit/id1244142051
Art Studio Pro is a really great sketching/drawing/painting app and just as great as Procreate on the iPad!
Art Studio has been with iPad for almost 10 years, now and this art app has been compatible with almost all of Adonit’s smarter, powered stylii for years!
Procreate is NOT the end all, be all sketching/drawing/painting app for iPad.
Best of Luck to You!
