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Does any of the Apple pencil work with the 5th generation iPads?
I have an IPad 5th generation and need to get a pencil, but I’m finding in the faqs that my iPad might not be compatible with any of the pencil. Is that true?
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iPad, iPadOS 13
FYI
Just so you know, the Adonit Pixel has NOT been available anywhere or from Adonit since Mid-March 2020.
With the current worldwide pandemic, there is no way to know when the Adonit Pixel will be ever available again, or not.
I have not recommended this stylus to anyone since finding this out.
No iPad made before late Fall 2015 is compatible with ANY Apple Pencil.
Older iPads are missing a crucial internal hardware screen layer needed for an Apple Pencil to interact with these older iPad screens.
The same is true of the later 2017 iPad 5th generation models.
There is no Apple Pencil-like, smart Bluetooth stylus that I can, honestly, recommend, currently for older iPad models.
The one I usually recommend has been out of stock for months, due to the worldwide pandemic, as there is no way to predict when this stylus will be available, again, if at all!
You have other stylus options like found everywhere, commonplace, capacitive stylii to use with your 2017 5th gen iPad.
The better, more accurate versions of these are capacitive stylii 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 pr 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.
https://https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Anti-fouling-Drawing-Tablet-Graphic-Right-Ha Hand/dp/B017R8M2JY/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1543548123&sr=8-1-spons&k eywords=lycra+drawing+gloves&psc=1
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!
Nothing.
The Logitech crayon is still ONLY for iPads that DO support the Apple Pencil.
There currently is nothing close to the Adonit Pixel stylus as a good substitute for the Apple Pencil.
See my current response/reply above.
igirl2000 wrote:
That *****! Almost every other iPad but the 5th generation, go figure? Thanks!
It’s only the latest generation iPads other than the iPad Pro’s that have Apple Pencil support. They didn’t include the support in any iPad other than the iPad Pro before the latest generation iPad’s that just came out. It’s nice to see that they did include that in all the latest versions though as it allows people who don’t want to go out and spend serious money on the Pro series the ability to still be able to use the Pencil if they want.
That sucks! Almost every other iPad but the 5th generation, go figure? Thanks!
Sorry, but the iPad 5th generation is not compatible with Apple Pencil. There are however other options you can look at. One which is highly regarded here is the Adonit Pixel.
I didn't know. I wonder why, it seemed to sell well enough? What are you recommending then these days? The Logitech Crayon seems like a decent option?
I just read it. And will remember the Pixel is not currently available. I went out to the Adonit site and it's still listed, just out of stock.
It is out of stock everywhere.
You cannot purchase the Adonit Pixel stylus anywhere, currently.
Yes, I got that.
I gave a 5th gen I pad. I need a stylus for this particular I pad?
Please read this entire post!
See my rather long reply on this topic above.
Answers ALL of your questions.
Sorry, but you, like myself, are out of luck. The 5th generation iPads are not compatible with the Apple pencils.
Thanks for reply! I’ve learned the hard way! Buy new iPad do can download Boss Planner
Does any of the Apple pencil work with the 5th generation iPads?
