I picked up one of these after watching a YouTube video. The pencil works fine with my gen 7 iPad but I am mystified as to how it connects. Even with my iPad in Airplane mode and Bluetooth turned off, the pencil works! Also, I can't find the pencil listed in any of my iPad's settings. It's as though my iPad is not aware of it...yet the pencil works! Can anyone explain this to me?
Thanks
You probably purchase a so-called “active”, battery powered, capactive-type stylus.
These types of commonplace capacitive stylii have a fine tip/ballpoint-like tip/nib, that uses a tiny battery to send small electrical signals to a fine point tipped stylus that mimics an actual finger touch.
No Bluetooth connection is necessary with these types of stylii.
They work just like ANY commonplace, purchase anywhere, cheap capacitive aluminium barreled stylus.
All of these types of types of “active, battery powered, capacitive stylii suffer from varying degrees of line wobble when drawing angular lines. Some of these types of stylii are worse than others.
Newer versions of these types of “active”, battery powered stylii may actually allow you to place your palm or the side of your hand down on the iPad's screen, now, as you write or draw.
If your particular stylus does not allow this ability, 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!
You probably purchase a so-called “active”, battery powered, capactive-type stylus.
These types of commonplace capacitive stylii have a fine tip/ballpoint-like tip/nib, that uses a tiny battery to send small electrical signals to a fine point tipped stylus that mimics an actual finger touch.
No Bluetooth connection is necessary with these types of stylii.
They work just like ANY commonplace, purchase anywhere, cheap capacitive aluminium barreled stylus.
All of these types of types of “active, battery powered, capacitive stylii suffer from varying degrees of line wobble when drawing angular lines. Some of these types of stylii are worse than others.
Newer versions of these types of “active”, battery powered stylii may actually allow you to place your palm or the side of your hand down on the iPad's screen, now, as you write or draw.
If your particular stylus does not allow this ability, 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!
As this is not an Apple product, you'd need to ask the manufacturer.
MichelPM,
Thanks for the great explanation! Yes, it IS an active pencil (forgot to mention that). Palm rejection works just fine and writing/drawing are good enough for my purposes. At $14, I'm happy!
Thanks again.
If you can, can you tell me who makes this stylus and supply a Website link to it?
I would like to advise others looking for a good, cheaper Apple Pencil alternative to be able to use with their newer iPad models in the future.
If you wouldn’t mind.
Thank You.
It's advertised as an Aieach product but the pencil and packaging have no branding on them.
This is one I purchased (with a $3 coupon).
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000098343743.html
This is the video where I discovered it. The reviewer convinced me to try it.
Okay, watched the video, but this YouTuber did not ever demonstrate whether the stylus' palm rejection actually works on his 2019, 7th gen iPad.
No pressure sensitivity, at all, just like any commonplace capacitive stylus.
Also, his hand was up in the air the whole time he was using this stylus.
Does palm rejection of this stylus work with your iPad, or not?
If you lay your palm/side of your hand on the iPads screen, will this stylus still write and draw?
That’s pretty awesome for a $14 stylus!!
I will have to keep this info and note this stylus for future reference for anyone here that asks.
Thanks again for all of your help and info about this stylus.
Michel
No, it’s not pressure sensitive. Yes, with my hand on the screen, I can still write and draw with this pencil.
No problem. Thanks again for explaining how it works.
Superfine Nib Capacitive Pencil / Gen 1 Apple Pencil Clone
