Does anyone know how to turn the new barrel roll feature off? It looks gross on my notes and I don't like it. Apple support has no idea, it seemed like they weren't even aware that the new product was being released.
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iPad Pro (6th generation)
Mine can’t do the barrel roll neither. I already tried to pair it again but no Luck. I’m on the base 13” iPad Air. I’m now somewhat worried that the barrel roll is an iPad Pro feature. But as far as I can see here are some pro users with the same issue.
btw I think I accidentally skipped the barrel roll intro when I originally connected the pencil to my iPad. Maybe then the feature gets disabled…
iPad OS 17.5 also didn’t fix anything about the pencil issue for me. Interestingly enough it show me the welcome dialog and I could set it up with find my. But in this dialog it also didn’t introduce me to the barrel roll…
I have the iPad Pro 11 inch & also have issues. At first the barrel roll worked, after a week I finally have a matte screen protector and ESR case. I’ve noticed now my barrel roll does not work. I found this discussion board to find answers. I tried removing the case and it still doesn’t work :/ wondering if it’s the screen protector but don’t want to take the screen protector off, hopefully there is a solution soon. Wondering if the update had anything to do with it also…
Also thought my double-tap feature didn’t work but realized I was double squeezing instead of tapping - oops - it works :)
@reags_b were you able to turn barrel roll off? I will NOT be upgrading to the M4 iPad Pro & Apple Pencil Pro if this "feature" cannot be turned off. It's completely useless for note taking, which is mainly what I use my 2018 iPad Pro for.
And how did this get turned into a thread for people looking to enable barrel roll when the OP asked how to disable it? Weird...
I also can't get the double-tap function to work - it seems like this product has a few issues.
Interesting, I didn’t have an introduction pop up just that the pencil was connected.
@reags_b, are you using that pencil with your 6th gen iPad Pro?
Nope the 13 inch 2024 model. That was the only option I could tag sorry.
I chatted with an Apple rep online and he told me that there should be an area in Settings to turn off Barrel roll. @reags_bcan you confirm if this exists?
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No option for me yet
Same. No intro for me either. iPad was new 11inch iPad Pro 2024 model.
For some reason barrel roll started to work today… I haven’t restarted the iPad. I just tried it and it worked 🤷♂️
Have you tried restarting/rebooting your ipad? I have the same issue too and haven't resolved it yet.
Are you tapping or squeezing? I was silly and squeezing instead of tapping
Thank you, yes figured it out as I was doing the same thing.
I experienced the same thing
How to turn off Barrel Roll on Apple Pencil Pro?
