Will the apple pencil work on ipad air 2

If Apple had something new in the display of the iPad Pro it will be on the description

MichelPM is correct. The iPad Pro will be out soon. If you don't want to believe buy a Pencil when they come out.

No need to be so snooty. Maybe she wasn't available to watch the event.

facu_manya wrote:

If Apple had something new in the display of the iPad Pro it will be on the description

They do - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/design/ Apparently nobody actually reads the new product information that Apple actually does make available.

A new Multi‑Touch subsystem in iPad Pro enables the striking capabilities and pixel‑perfect precision of Apple Pencil.

Ok it's therefore certain that the awesome precision of the apple pen will work ONLY with the iPad Pro. I think we ill have to wait to see if it work ALSO on other ipad, with less precision but maybe a concurrence like precision. ( similar to wacom or adonis's styluses )

The Apple Pencil may just work like any ordinary stylus OR it just may NOT work, at all!!

Apple NEVER mentioned anywhere that the Apple pencil will work, at all, with any other iPad models.

Apple specifically titled this Apple Pencil for iPad Pro. Period,

When Apple puts this up on their own website, they mean it will only work with the iPad Pro!

You may not like reading that, but it doesn't change the fact!

The Apple Pencil was made exclusively for the iPad Pro.

Do you really want to pay $99 for a stylus that will only work like any other cheaper 3rd party stylus on the market?

I, recently, purchased an Adonit Jot Touch w/pixelpoint and this works great with my current iPad 3.

I am having the opposite reaction. I am planning to purchase an iPad Pro model and I would like the Adonit Jot Touch stylus, I purchased two months ago, to work with the new iPad Pro. I don't want to spend another $99 on another stylus for this iPad model.

The Adonit Jot Touch is a precision stylus that also retails for $99.

I am sure this works real well with all current iPad models.

Contact Adonit to see if they have solved the issues that plagued most of their styluses models for awhile when the iPad Air 2 first came out.

See my previous threads here for my link to Adonit's website.

I don't think it's possible to get pressure sensitive response using Apple Pencil on iPad Air 2. However if you wanna such response, currently I am using Adobe Ink & Slide for my artworks on iPad Air 2, and it just works fine.

Agreed.... I have a MacBook Air, iPAD Air2, and an assortment of Windows 10 devices including a Surface Pro 2. The experience on the Surface Pro 2 with a Wacom digitiser and pen is excellent.... and the Pro 3 and the new Pro 4, while Microsoft changed the technology, are sublime. The iPAD has always had potential but the experience on the earlier models with 3rd party stylus were always a bit half baked compared to the Surface technology.... Now .. to be fair a Surface is a full up PC not a tablet like the iPAD. The iPAD pro LOOKS great on paper... but we shall see... but who wants a 12inch tablet?

The failing here (to another post) is that IOS and OSX are 2 fundamentally different OS's. For the Pro running iOS to effectively compete in the PC space against WIN10 devices is a very long pull of the bow... and will take another couple of versions to get there. The better comparison is OSX to Win10.

The Air 2 hopefully will have the same capabilities as the Pro but alas, I am cynical enough to believe its part of the planned obsolescence of the product line which is why you'll have to buy the next cool thing! The Air 2 has a beautiful display, great performance, but Apple had a brain fog and missed the plot on pen capabilities...

The real catch that I see to be obvious is that there's an element between the iPad Pro and the Pencil that accelerates the update frequency of the display. Is this in the new hardware, or is this something baked into iOS 9? There IS new display tech in the iPad Pro, but the lions share of what is there is obviously for the "3D touch" feature, though I would suspect some of it is there to support reading the tilt of the stylus.

One of the biggest attractions I see about the Apple Pencil is it's ability to draw charge from the iPad itself. If it can handle pressure sensitivity and charge off my iPad Air 1, it's competing strongly against the Adjonit Touch I already own.

As far as being "exclusive" to the iPad Pro, Apple isn't shy about tossing the word "exclusive" around, and they haven't done so here. Apple does (and deservedly I might add) have a rep about being coy when they want to sell you a brand new iPad. I would suspect that the Pencil will *work* with older iPad models, but in a more... feature limited mode, without tilt and update frequency boosting.

We will fnd out soon enough this week!

just my opinion but I think it probably will work but they won't tell you that cause I'm almost cer the new technology is actually in the stylus not the iPad pro itsel. At least that's what it looks like from the picture of the stylus tip it seems to flex when being used so I would think the stylus is telling the iPad they its tilting.

Apple made it very clear in the media event that the screen for the Pro is a completely new design. Both the new screen and the Pencil are required for the full functionality. It will not have those features on an older model.

"It can't be used with older iPads. The Pencil is meant to be used with the iPad Pro. I tried plugging it into my iPad Air 2, but I didn't receive any pairing request by the system."

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ipad-pro-accessories-review/

i've got the Jot Touch and now the iPad Pro. The Jot works but so poorly that my finger is infinitely better. I've tried it in a number of apps but it lags equally badly in each. Works well on my iPad Air.

I am hoping this is an issues with Adonit's current SDK circulation within supoorted apps and NOT a hardware problem as I just, three months ago, purchased their Jot Touch w/pixelpoint stylus and I hope I will not have to purchase an Apple Pencil when supplies return OR have to purchase another Adonit stylus that is compatible with my new iPad Pro. I really do not want to spend additional cash on another $100 high tech smart stylus.