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Apple Pencil Glitching

My pencil keeps glitching on Notability - drawing random lines and dots, like an electronic fountain pen spill. And it breaks up my writing.

I have the 2020 iPad 12.9 inch, and 2nd gen Apple Pencil

I've tried the following things:

getting a new Apple Pencil
restarting the iPad
reconnecting the Pencil
turning off other devices nearby (to try stop interference)
holding the metal side of the iPad while writing, to see if it was a grounding issue and also removing the case while writing
taking the iPad out the charger while writing

I've noticed it glitches mainly on Notability, however I don't use the other apps enough to be able to tell if its a Notability issue or a general one...

Very annoying! Anyone got any ideas? Side note, the iPad gets kind of warm with Notability - anyone else get this?

Thanks for the help!

iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 3rd Gen, Wi-Fi

Posted on Oct 7, 2020 5:10 AM

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Kavanavak

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Posted on Feb 7, 2021 6:27 PM

I’ve spoken with apple technical support, they’re aware of the issue, though they didn’t have a ‘fix’ I was told to disable the pencil ‘click’ (to change from pen to eraser) and I haven’t had the issue since, it’s been two weeks now and I was having the issue almost every day before that change and did basically everything else possible before that weird solution. I haven’t turned the pencil click back on to check if it comes back out of fear of it not going away again ;) ;)

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kafrzz

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Feb 20, 2021 5:08 AM in response to willtyler1

This happens w me all the time. I contact support and they changed my ipad (7th generation) for a new one, but the problem persists. Now they told me that it’s a software problem and cannot do anything so i’m looking for some help!!

emely168

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Apr 5, 2021 7:26 AM in response to abjenkins5

This does not fix it whatsoever. I've disabled this for weeks now and the issue is still there.

I've the pro 12,9 from 2020 and my first one had it and the replacement as well which is absolutely ridiculous.

I've also tried everything now and the only one that seems to work is remove my case but as others say , thats not the solution at all. I think the 2018 11 inch doesn't be affected that much thus some of the smaller modells seems to have it too but fare more rarely than the 12,9 inch does....

Apr 5, 2021 7:28 PM in response to abjenkins5

I was so hopeful that the disabling of clicking to change from pen to eraser would help, but alas, the problem is still happening on the two apps that I use my pencil with (grading in Google Classroom and writing in Notability).

Apr 18, 2021 10:56 PM in response to dd271

I have this problem too and am so frustrated because I've found so many suggestions online and have tried them all and this issue still persists! My apple pencil 1st generation worked way better with my 4th gen ipad air so I feel like my new 2020 pro has been a total waste of money. I rely on the apple pencil to take college notes and for digital art so I feel totally scammed

CASARJ

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Jun 12, 2021 4:52 PM in response to dd271

Can you provide more detail with regards to how it is glitching? there are many ways in which the apple pen does this and it various amongst settings, or apps (ie. ‘DrawSomething’ where it splits the already drawn image and duplicates it to the other side of the screen, or how it creates randomized dots and relocates the thing which you’ve drawn. When the image is sent, the recipient does not seem some of the glitches - making this more odd)

Jan 24, 2021 3:43 PM in response to MichelPM

I'm not going to argue with you, click the link you provided and read the description written by the sellers.

Jan 24, 2021 3:58 PM in response to richardmathews

I just tried your suggestion and it seems to have corrected the problem. I’ll give it a couple of weeks as well.

Jan 25, 2021 10:19 AM in response to willtyler1

@willtyler1 I'm on a 2020 iPad Pro 12.9in 4th gen, this issue is still an issue.

Feb 7, 2021 1:54 PM in response to Thairax

what worked ? the world wants to know :)

kafrzz

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Feb 20, 2021 5:32 AM in response to richardmathews

so i got this problem constantly when my ipad IS NOT plugged, that’s why i can’t find anyone who could help me 😬 that’s very sad because we buy expensive stuff to work and that’s not happing

emely168

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Apr 5, 2021 12:13 PM in response to MichelPM

Then what are we actually supposed to do? Live with the problem? Get another replacement? Get another model (which??))?

I am really clueless rn

Apr 10, 2021 1:50 PM in response to dd271

Mine is doing the same thing, I have the 6th gen I pad and the 1st gen pencil

May 1, 2021 3:20 AM in response to benbaruch

I for one will not be investing in the new iPad until I read that this issue has been resolved.

Jun 12, 2021 4:22 PM in response to kübra84

Do you have an update?

Jun 12, 2021 5:34 PM in response to CASARJ

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