Apple Pencil 1 compatibility
Is the Apple Pencil 1st gen. compatible with an iPad Model MC707LL/A running OS 9.3.5?
If it is not, is there another pencil you'd recommend?
Thanks
No.
That is a 2012, iPad 3rd generation.
No Apple Pencils work with any older iPads made before late Fall of 2015 with the introduction of the first iPad Pro.
The only stylii you can use with that iPad are non-Bluetooth, commonplace, purchase anywhere capacitive stylii.
The Bluetooth spec in older iPad models is too old for other, third party Bluetooth stylii to work, either!
You have other stylus options like found everywhere, commonplace, capacitive stylii to use with your older iPad 3.
The better, more accurate versions of these are capacitive stylii are with a clear disc tip for more accurate drawing.
Another type of commonplace capacitive stylii is the fine tip/ballpoint-like tipped, battery operated, so-called “active” stylus that uses a tiny battery to send small electrical signals to a fine point tipped stylus that mimics an actual finger touch.
All of these types of stylii suffer from varying degrees of line wobble when drawing angular lines. Some are worse than others.
The better of both the disc tipped stylii and the battery operated “active’ stylii are made by Adonit stylii.
Like all commonplace, capacitive stylii, none of these stylii have screen pressure sensing OR palm rejection.
So, you will not be able to draw thin to thick or light to dark lines with these types of stylii.
The exception to this limitation is if the sketching/drawing/painting/writing app has a programmed/coded-in feature to drawing thin to thick/light to dark lines using velocity or how fast you draw a mark across the iPad's screen using a finger or commplace, capacitive stylus.
Some sketching/drawing/paining/writing apps have this velocity line varying marking feature.
So, you can write or draw on the iPad's screen with the palm or side of your hand down on the iPad’s screen and NOT make stray marks on the iPad's screen, with various sketching/drawing/paintng/writing apps, there are inexpensive special non-body electrical conducting, lycra- material based drawing/writing gloves for touch screen devices that allow you to lay the palm/side of your hand on capacitive touch screen tablet that isolates your actual hand from the tablet's screen so it will not send any electrical signals to the tablet’s screen and not make false or accidental touches while using an iPad or other capacitive touch screen device while writing or drawing.
Something like this found on Amazon.
Many more makers of these types of gloves found on Amazon and in different hand sizes and colors, as well!
Best of Luck to You!