Apple pencil pairing issue

faiz242 wrote:

Is there a solution to this problem...

Yes, don’t turn Bluetooth off.

Modern Bluetooth 4 and 5 protocols use so little power when in passive mode that turning it off makes absolutely no significant difference to battery life.

It shouldn’t be necessary to re-pair your 1st Generation Apple Pencil upon every use - unless you a switching off your Bluetooth. If you disable Bluetooth on your iPad, it will immediately “un-pair” the Pencil.

If you’re not disabling Bluetooth on your iPad at any time, then a forced-restart of your iPad may resolve the issue:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210631

I hope you find this helpful in resolving the problem.

This is quite correct from the perspective of the iPad. BT has almost no tangible effect on the main iPad battery.

However, there is a usage case to justify temporarily disabling BT to force un-pairing of the Pencil. Un-pairing - and leaving the 1st Gen Apple Pencil undisturbed - is the only way to “switch off” the Apple Pencil.

Compete shutdown of the Pencil potentially extends the useable life of the Pencil battery - and helps to avoid deep discharge (and subsequent Pencil battery failure). This only works if the Pencil is un-paired and completely undisturbed; if movement is detected by the integral accelerometer, power-off is delayed; if repeatedly disturbed, power-off never occurs.

Why are you turning Bluetooth off in the first place? I don't ever turn off Bluetooth, nor is there really a reason one should need to turn it off.

Hello, I have an Apple Pencil and I use it about every week or so, depending on what I want to draw. I always keep my Bluetooth on, so if I don’t use my Apple Pencil for like a week or two it connects fine, without happening to plug it in to the lighting port; Hope this helped.🙂

I beg to differ with all of the opinions here.

Having both WiFi snd Bluetooth on all the DOES affect battery drain, peoples!

If I just use my iPad without Wifi and/or Bluetooth, battery drain on my iPad Pro is significantly less.

Also, if I keep both WiFi and Bluetooth OFF while charging, my iPad PRO WILL charge up much faster.

Instead of over 4 hours to charge, my iPad Pro will usually charge in about 3 hours.

Many times, with WiFi and Bluetooth OFF, my 12.9 inch screen iPad Pro will charge to 80% within 2-3 hours!

It makes a difference.

Maybe, ya all should try this for yourself and observe if you see any difference.

I have been doing this with my iPad Pro turning Wifi and Bluetooth OFF when I do not need to have these going every single minute of every single day and when I charge my iPad Pro, for the last two years, or so!

Definitely a noticeable difference in lesser battery drain and faster charging!

Well my friend, I beg to differ with you as well. The Bluetooth radio is LE (Low Energy) on iPad and iPhone and uses an extremely low amount of power. If Bluetooth is draining someone's battery there is an issue with the device. Wifi will use a bit more, but only when using a connection to a network. I use my iPad Pro 11 a LOT. Daily and for hours at a time. Bluetooth and Wifi are never turned off and I only need to charge every 3rd day or so.

Lawrence wrote this brilliant User Tip about this --> Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Battery Drain and oth… - Apple Community

I won't go round with you either. I have never subscribed to their being a good reason to turn off Bluetooth or Wifi on any of my devices and battery life on all our devices have never suffered. Lawrence is actually an engineer who usually provides beyond excellent guidance.

MichelPM wrote:

Having both WiFi snd Bluetooth on all the DOES affect battery drain...

Who said anything about Wi-Fi?

Apple Pencil operates on Bluetooth Low Energy, which uses insignificant amount of power.

I am not going to get into circular arguments about this until someone else here, besides me, tries this and observes what I have already observed for myself.