apple pencil gen 2 stopped working after upgrade to iOS 14.0.1

I have Apple pencil 2, it was working fine with my iPad pro before i upgraded to iOS14. When i moved to iOS14, I had to delete and add pencil to bluetooth again to make it work

but now when I upgraded to iOS 14.0.1 its not detecting the pencil.

Please suggest

iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi

Posted on Sep 28, 2020 12:16 AM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2021 4:42 AM

I chatted with Apple Support. They took me through all the suggested steps to diagnose, disconnect, charge, forget, add and nothing worked. The eventual solution was scheduling a Genius Bar appointment and replacing the Apple Pencil 2.


Within a month, the new Apple Pencil 2 failed to connect even though the IPad Pro (4th Gen) recognized it but didn't offer a way to connect. I erased all data and reset my IPad Pro to factory settings and this didn't work either.


This happened twice; once with a new Apple Pencil 2 and again with the replacement Pencil 2 Apple provided.


The only solution was replacing the Apple Pencil 2. I'm on my fourth Apple Pencil . This is definitely an Apple product quality issue.

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Oct 22, 2020 1:56 PM in response to GTKINGCS

I went to BestBuy with my Apple Pencil 2 and 4th Gen iPad Pro 12.9".


I was able to connect my Apple Pencil 2 to one of the iPads on display that was running the previous iOS, so the Apple Pencil 2 works.


I purchased another Apple Pencil 2 and it connected to my iPad Pro just fine, so my iPad Pro works.


To make a long story short, everyone should forget all Bluetooth devices before updating iOS. Reconnect each device after updating. If you don't, and you update your iPad, it may have permanent device forgetfulness if you ever click forget device after updating.


I just exchanged the Apple Pencil 2 with the new one.

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