Why is my Apple Pencil lagging in Procreate on iPad Pro?

I also have this problem. I tried all the fixes on this thread and none of it worked. I realized that I initially connected my pencil pro to my iPad Air through the thin plastic of the top edge of my aftermarket case. I tried connecting to my pencil to my iPad without the case and it worked.

I have a new M4 iPad Pro (13”) with the new Pencil.

I have followed the advice of some of the other posters and turned off the Accessibility Zoom function, which remedied the pencil lag that was occurring. How strange.

But if I scribble fast with the Pencil in Procreate, at some point (usually quite quickly) the whole system becomes jerky and unresponsive, until I force quit Procreate.

Something quite wrong is happening here.

Turning off the Accessibility > Zoom worked.

i was going crazy and thought my iPad or Apple Pencil Pro had issues.

Thanks for the tip!

I was having the same problem on my iPad Air M2 with the Apple Pencil pro. Turning on Tap Assistance in Settings > Procreate fixed it for me. Try this.

I’m having the same issue, but I just discovered that the pencil only lags when the iPad is unplugged – even if the battery is at 100%. When I plug it back in, the pencil works as expected. (Turning off Zoom didn’t work for me.) Any fix for this?

I was having an issue with the pencil pro in procreate lagging when drawing on my IPad Pro M4.

I don’t know specifically why but turning off the Zoom function in the accessibility settings has resolved it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I turned off zoom and the lag vanished! That's so random, I never would have figured it out.

I have the same issue, which is upsetting, as I got the iPad exclusively for digital art. The lag occurs for me in Procreate and Adobe Fresco. And, often during a drawing, the pencil stops working as a brush altogether, making no marks. After a while, it works again.

I took the M4 iPad Pro to the Apple Store and they tried it with one of their pencils. Same issues. So they concluded it was the iPad, not the Apple Pencil Pro. The gave me a replacement iPad. I just finished setting it up, and it too has the pencil lag.

Ensure that you have updated your new iPad Pro M4 to iPadOS 17.5.

Consider that any Apps that may have been briefly showcased during Apple's recent event will have been using beta software - either by iPadOS, App, or both - and will have been carefully "staged" for the presentation.

Given that many Developers will not yet have had opportunity to test their Apps with the new iPad hardware and updated version of iPadOS, you might reasonably anticipate that many Apps will not yet be optimised for the new models of iPad.

I was having the same issues on my pencil pro and turning off zoom worked.

I was having issues with the Apple Pencil not registering initial contact while my hand was resting on the screen, but not an issue with palm off screen. My problem was because I had the IPad Pro connected to the keyboard. When I removed the IPad from the keyboard, palm recognition was resolved.

Maybe this helps someone.

Have you done the recent update for ProCreate? If you haven’t try it and see if the issue still exists.

I don't use Procreate - I use GoodNotes and for other markups I use the PDF viewer built into Files App. Both apps work fine for a while, then both exhibit MASSIVE lagging when using the Pencil Pro now. I've had to resort to ~daily rebooting the iPad Pro (13") to fix the lagging when it reoccurs. I had previously enabled the zoom functionality, but when I disabled it the problem remains. I've rebooted again and let's see if the lag stays gone.

Hi. Glad to see it's not just me having this problem. Recently I've had dreams start lagging too. The fix for me was not a fun one and it didn't last forever.

I had to reset all my OS settings. That did work for a while but the issue is back after a few months. I'm thinking to do it again but that forgets everything and figuring out why my iPad isn't reacting how I want it too because there was some setting I needed to re-customize is really annoying. Especially since it takes off all ApplePay cards but it did work for a while. I've been trying to pay Attention to if something changed after I turned on a particular setting, but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

also, I actually do use Zoom on the regular and after resetting the settings and enabling Zoom, it was fine. I think Zoom is part of the problem, but not the whole thing.