Connecting Stylus to iPad 8th Gen

If your stylus is NOT an Apple Pencil, but some third party battery powered “look-alike” ( there are hundreds of these on Amazon ), then none of the specific Apple Pencil settings will ever work.

Most third party Apple Pencil “look-alikes” are ONLY battery operated capacitive-type stylii, with NO Bluetooth connectivity.

Most of these types of stylii do not have pressure sensitivity OR palm rejection.

These are just more fine point capacitive stylii that work much like the older, cheap, found everywhere, fat tipped stylii that you can still purchase.

All forms of capacitive stylii just mimic a finger touch.

Forget this stylus. Either bite the bullet and purchase a 1st gen Pencil with the chromed, metallised top and magnetic Lightning connector protective cap.

OR

purchase a stylus from Adonit, like any of the Adonit Note series of stylii

Adonit states compatibility with the 6th, 7th and 8th gen iPad models.for all 5 Adonit Note stylus models.

Look down the entire page for compatibility to confirm what I have stated.

https://www.adonit.net/stylus-for-ios/

Best of Luck to You!

Here’s my “up to date”, comprehensive, but still incomplete, list of Adonit Note+ compatible apps for the base line iPad models, like the 6th, 7th and 8th gen iPad models.

MOST apps listed support palm rejection, pressure sensitivity and tilt, unless otherwise noted

Compatible Adonit Note+ apps for drawing

Animation Desk

Amaziograph ( NO tilt support )

Adobe Photoshop Sketch ( A great app with a lot of free brushes without having to pay monthly to subscribe ) (palm rejection and Tilt support ONLY )

Adobe Draw ( palm rejection ONLY )

Art Studio Pro ( a direct Procreate competitor, just as good as Procreate )

Colored Pencil

Concepts

Forge ( drawing/sketching/concept/ideation app )

Infinite Painter

Interactive SketchBook

Medibang Paint

Procreate ( palm rejection, tilt support ONLY )

Tayasui Sketches/Sketches Pro ( palm rejection, Tilt support ONLY )

SketchClub

Vectornator ( palm rejection ONLY )

Zen Brush 2

Compatible Adonit Notes+ apps for Notes and Notes with drawing types of apps.

GoodNotes 5 ( palm rejection ONLY )

Note Shelf 2

Notes Plus ( palm rejection ONLY )

Notes Writer ( palm rejection improved using special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

QuickNotes X Pro ( palm rejection ONLY. No pressure sensing for light/dark or thin/thick lines )

uPad

Zoom Notes

PDF Pen

This is pretty much it for Adonit Note+ compatible note-taking apps.

This stylus works with other non-compatible apps, too, but without any palm rejection and/or pressure features.

You can use this stylus with other apps but will not be able to lay your palm on the screen, while you write or draw, unless you use special, non-body electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove that works by isolating your hand/palm and allow you to lay your hand/palm on the screen as you draw in these non-compatible Adonit stylus apps.

Something like these found on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/AKX-Rejection-Drawing-Graphic-Sketching/dp/B08R6PWKC9/ref=sr_1_33_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=tablet+drawing+gloves&qid=1611535160&sr=8-33-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExMFg5WFBZWFpCS1kmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTA5OTA2MzMxRUVYUURUMlAwVU4wJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAxNDY1NjMxVjg1NE45TVRXSUQ3JndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmX25leHQmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl

https://www.amazon.com/Timebetter-Rejection-Drawing-Sketching-Suitable/dp/B08DKGHYMS/ref=sr_1_21?dchild=1&keywords=drawing+gloves&qid=1611533128&sr=8-21

Many more makers of these types of gloves found on Amazon and in different hand sizes, as well!

Best of Luck to You!

It looks like only the Adonit Note+ offers palm rejection, pressure sensitivity and tilt support.

https://www.adonit.net/noteplus/