Apple Pencil Charging

On an 8th gen the Apple pencil is charged via the iPad’s own charging port. The connector on the side of the 8th gen iPad is for the keyboard not the Apple Pencil.

The iPad’s charging port should be accessible for both the charging cable for the iPad and the Apple Pencil.

Otherwise as mentioned, you can use the included adapter to connect the pencil to the iPads lightning cable and charger to charge.

Some heavy duty cases can partially obstruct the iPad Lightning port - which will interfere with both Pairing of the Pencil (which will be necessary if Bluetooth is ever disabled - or if the iPad is restarted) and charging of the Pencil directly from the iPad.

The alternative charging method is to use the inline charging adapter that was included in the cardboard box/packaging in which the Pencil was supplied - connecting the Pencil to the iPad Power Adapter. However, this will not resolve the issue of connecting the Pencil to iPad when pairing.

The Apple Pencil comes with a small charging adapter that allows charging directly from a Apple power/charging adapter block.