Apple Pencil no longer working after recent software update

It’s not the iPad that tells the pencil when to charge. It’s the battery in the pencil telling the iPad when it needs charged. That being said, if you suspect that, you can always use the adapter that came with the pencil and charge it with a charger if it’s the lightning version. If it’s Gen 2 then it has to be charged by the iPad, but again, if the battery in the pencil has failed, the battery is going to refuse to take a charge. You will need to schedule something for the Genius Bar to take a look at it and they can diagnose it. However if there is no Apple Care+ then unfortunately you’ll need to replace the pencil by paying full price for a new one. Batteries are consumable items and will fail, properly maintaining them will give you the most use out of them. Unfortunately what is going to happen when the battery fails is the pencil will connect when connected to the iPad because it’s getting power from the iPad, it will show 100% most likely because the pencil is going to refuse charge so the iPad will show it full because the battery has failed and the pencil reports are broken. Once removed from the iPad, it looses power and will then “disconnect” and won’t work and act like it’s not paired because it has no power

I am also having the same problems and have been for about a month now. I have tried all of the things listed to reconnect it including changing the tip. The first time I changed the tip it worked for about three days I thought I had solved the issue but then stopped working again. Exact same situation shows it’s connected but doesn’t work. I went and bought more new tips which did nothing at all.

My Apple Pencil was connecting just fine yesterday but now it seems that my palm rejection has broken? Unlike the original poster my pencil IS connecting but my iPad is no longer doing palm rejection, regardless of platform. This is not an issue of the nib or pencil as both of those are brand new, and this issue only began after the update. I am a visual artist by trade and need my iPad for work. APPLE PLEASE FIX THIS

I ended up re-ordering a cheap stylus off of Amazon that I had before I bought the Apple pencil that seems to be doing the trick for now https://a.co/d/ccUi1Zq

My plan is to order a second one in a few weeks that way each of my iPads has their

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Having the same issue with my Apple Pencil since IOS17 - I’ve just been to my local Apple Store - & they just said its broken and do i want to buy another one for another 95pounds!!!! - Not very impressed - This is definitely a software issue!! And Apple just want me to buy a new one??

I followed this strange advice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8k4G1HUkd8

And also selected “Forget This Device” for my Apple Pencil on Bluetooth and paired my pencil again and everything works now, so I’m not sure which helped.

Same here

Same here!

Same!! What did you all do?

I had the same issue as everyone in this thread (iPad wouldn’t recognize the pencil after updating to 17.2 OS). This hard reset fixed it, hopefully it stays that way.

Same problem here after update. Apple pencil stops working on my 7th OS 17 ipad but works well on another iPad 8th OS 16. When i connect pencil to OS 17 screen freezes.