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Hi Everyone, I recently bought the new iPad M4 and the new apple pencil pro. I use it mostly for taking notes on apple notes. Sometimes, while writing notes, the apple pencil stops showing what I'm writing. Anything I write disappears as soon as i write it, and then keeps on doing that. Then I close the notes app, and open it back up, the writing shows up back again. It happens very randomly.
iPad Pro, iPadOS 17
Any chance you have your palm resting on the screen when writing that may be interfering? Ultimately you may need to take your pencil and iPad to Apple to have them inspect them to see if they can identify what’s going on. But before that try restarting your iPad and re-pairing your pencil to see if that helps.
Now, It's even worse, Now the writing disappears and doesn't come back. The apple pencil works fine, I can see what I'm writing, it's just after writing it, that it disappears, and half of the words vanish. Is it some software issue ?
I always keep my palm rested on the screen, but it happens at random moments. I will try restarting and repairing it.
It happened again, whatever I write it dissappears, then I close the notes app and reopen it again , I see the text back.
Apple Pencil Pro stops working randomly
