Apple Pencil- 1st Generation

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 for more than a few weeks, or so, OR

LONGER, then the battery in your Apple Pencil may have failed and is dead and you will have to purchase another

brand new Apple Pencil or get, if still under warranty, a free replacement Pencil from Apple.

Sorry.

And it looks like some things about the Apple Pencil have NOT changed in the new version 2 model, either.

FYI and something Apple will never, EVER divulge 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!

One last ditch thing you can try is to plug the Pencil's Lightning connector into the iPad.

Then, try a simple hard reset of your iPad by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons simultaneously until your iPad goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons.

See if the Pencil starts charging then, when it reaches a sufficient charge, like over 15%, or so, or more, disconnect the Pencil and reconnect it to see if it Bluetooth pairs.

If it does pair, try using it.

If still no joy, your Pencil is definitely dead.

Sorry and Best of Luck to You!

To amplify the comments helpfully made by Demo - an unused Apple Pencil, that is not regularly charged, rapidly becomes a dead Apple Pencil.

The internal battery cannot be replaced. Once the battery dies, the only remedy is replacement of the pencil.

You are most likely going to have to purchase another pencil at this point. If you go too long without charging the pencil, the battery can go flat permanently. The battery in the pencil is very small so it must be recharged very frequently. Once it falls that low, it is probably not going to recharge anymore.

I charge my pencil every day and usually twice a day by plugging into the lightning port on my iPad Air 3.

They are not going to replace it out of warranty as it has been far too long. If they didn’t take care of it when the nib was broken, they most likely aren’t going to do anything with it now that it has been unused for so long. Having any rechargeable Li-Ion battery like what is in your pencil go for a while without being charged, they just can no longer accept a charge and will not continue to work. Sounds like you are just going to have to bite the bullet and get a new pencil if you’re wanting to use a pencil on your iPad.

Outside of the one-year limited warranty - a replacement, by Apple, is highly unlikely.

Almost 4 years later? I don’t think anybody would replace anything that long out of warranty.