Disable Apple Pencil automatic drawing

Community software reply glitch.

So, I am reposting.

brennanmuir wrote:

Didn’t mean to mark it as helpful, that was my mistake. But, you’re welcome!

Secondly, isn’t that how a forum works? People can jump in and voice their opinions? I didn’t see what compelled you to criticize other people’s purchases but that’s your opinion, so I shared my own.

Have a good day 🙂

No.

I asked questions related or respond to the information given and my queries and responses may seem to you to be an opinion, but if you read the way I, typically, respond here, as it should be, the answers are always referenced in a technical support nature/context and not, always and necessarily “voiced” as my own opinion.

These Apple Technical Support Communities are NOT, necessarily, a “socializing” platform for product opinions and conversations/criticisms about Apple, as a company, or about any current or future Apple products.

These user to user communities are for technical support of an Apple product with some leeway in the types of responses allowed here by the ASC staff moderators and by the ASC Terms of Use that we all agree to when we sign up to use and volunteer to participate in these Apple Support Communities.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5952

f1major wrote:

Wow, I am up to 7 points now!!!

Off- topic, but here it goes.

You only receive points here in the ASC if other users mark an initial, original post question that have reply responses as helpful or solved OR Apple ASC moderators mark your post replies as recommended.

New users get initial points just for signing up and posting their first question to the one of the various communities.

The points posted for any user means that they were helpful with a particular technical posts questions to some degree.

The points are not regularly given and many users who come here don't always award points for helpful or solved solutions/questions.

Every regular, long term, contributing ASC volunteer support user here has earned every single point given to them.

Points are NOT simply freely given in the technical support communities.

The points system is, also, another way to confirm to other users the range and level of Apple product knowledge and experiences of a user who decides to regularly volunteer their Apple product knowledge to these support communities.

All of the regular contributors to these user to user communities have earned every single point they have received, based solely on their years of volunteering their extensive level of Apple products knowledge and experiences thorugh these technical support communities.

None of us here get ANY free points or “stars” for just simply participating or volunteering a reply to any posted question.

We long time volunteer users are here to help other, less knowledgeable, users to answer technical knowledge questions to the best of our individual Apple knowledge and experiences.

As long time volunteers here, we all field dozens of Apple product technical questions per day.

In most cases, we know more about Apple products than than some official Apple support staff, based on what the Apple products are and the technical questions asked.

FYI.

Telling someone to buy something cheaper and criticizing their purchase of a $99 product doesn’t seem like technical support. Tech support doesn’t question why a customer is doing something, they help them reach their solution.

The equivalent of what you’re doing is me asking “how do I access the function keys on a TouchBar MacBook?” And you responding “if you truly wanted the function keys, you should have spent less money and not gotten the model MacBook you wanted”. That’s pretty bad tech support.

OP already said you’re being to critical, but I wish you luck in providing the best technical support you can!

Once again, my post reply was a simple query with a following qualifier and explanation to my query.

If you are just using an Apple Pencil STRICTLY for navigating the iOS interface, there are cheaper and just as effective alternatives for that use.

The OP responded,somewhat tersely, that they are using the Pencil for other functions, so once I found this out, I let that thinking along those lines and my query on my curiosity go.

My query was NOT a reply to question, but a simple, but still technical query, out of curiosity.

I gave the Original Poster a course of action to follow as well as the same course of action to following users who posted who were thankful for my help and supplied links.

Since my query was NOT directed at you, you may not have like the post, but you were NOT required OR obligated to respond to it, either.

And you are not the post police here.

We have active 24/7 ASC topic moderators for that and none of them felt that any of my post/s was/were argumentative and off-topic to the point of being removed.

I am done with this and you, now.

Take Care and Be Well!

Again, the cheap styli you describe are not reliable, have small parts that disappear, and do not provide the same experience of the Apple Pencil. Period. I bought the pencil BECAUSE it was flexible enough to perform tasks the way I desired. Now it does not. And it’s weird that you would take issue with the way anyone else works - it is really not your concern. Helping people involves listening to their needs and finding the solution that is right - for THEM.

I have exactly the same problem as f1major. I’m a fiction writer and use the pencil as a navigation tool when I’m writing and a illustration tool when I’m sketching out ideas. The answer to Apple removing a load of useful functionality is not “you’re using it wrong buy another stylus” (michelPM) , but rather for Apple to provide a toggle which allows you to disable the annotation features as appropriate. There’s already a toggle in the slide out menu in pages that allows you to drop into annotation mode. Just want another setting in there which allows me to switch it off and allow navigation with the pencil.

FelipeAzucares wrote:

The answer to Apple removing a load of useful functionality is not “you’re using it wrong buy another stylus” (michelPM) ,

For pity's sake, that is NOT what MichelPM said. He asked a question and gave a suggestion.

A lesson in frustration and absolutely unnecessary : while I like the idea of using pencil for markup & correction in various apps, make it an option, not default!

on an iPad pro, I use keynote, pages, numbers, and have always found the pencil a valuable tool for setting objects, cursor points, settings etc/

now, all I can do is scribble.....

it is annoying & a step backwards/ now my stubby fingers have to be used, instead of my slick & precise stylus.....

please apple, make your slick stylus into a usable tool again.

I look forward to this obvious oversight being fixed in the next update...

oh, and another thing; what a great idea having a ‘feedback’ option on the new interface using the pencil in the above apps brings up: next time, link it to an actual web page - at present it comes up with an error- page not found...... or is this intentional, hmmmmm........

I can’t imagine what Apple was thinking with this latest update. They put in some really nice features, then rendered the app useless for Apple Pencil users. Why should we have to buy another stylus to do our design work. With my arthritis, i have far less control than when I am using a stylus, and I bought not one, but TWO Apple Pencils. Why does Apple now think I should purchase a non Apple stylus. It has been a month since they dropped this worthless update. They must think it is really cool and plan to keep it like it is. Yes, I have left feedback in the proper forums. No, there has not been any kind of response. So I leave 1- and 2-star reviews to let them know I am not pleased. And i seek others who are unhappy so we can band together. MichaelPM, please feel free to use your Apple Pencil any way you want, but stop faulting others for wanting to use theirs the way they want.

Smittyjo wrote:

And it would be helpful if you would read the entire post before weighing in with your “advice.”

I've been reading this thread since I started. I'm still unclear where you think people should leave these reviews. Rather than being snarky, could you please explain it to me?

Since you and MichelPM have. Posted the link multiple times, I can only assume you know where the proper place is. I already said I was getting no response there. Go back to sleep or whatever you were doing.

Consumer laws need to be heavily updated to prevent tech companies from ceasing and taking away functions and expected features from products, unless they specifically build in settings to turn those features off. It’s becoming a waste of money for so many people who overpay for products to function as expected, to only have these tech companies change everything on the through forced updates shortly down the road.

bryanfromsan francisco wrote:

Consumer laws need to be heavily updated to prevent tech companies from ceasing and taking away functions and expected features from products, unless they specifically build in settings to turn those features off.

Contact your elected official with that idea.

So you must not really use the Apple Pencil much. They are right! It is the coolest way to enteract with the iPad and when you are working through several apps to develope a page or drawing to have the thing start drawing lines for no reason is really frustrating. You have to undo and say done and then when you close or move to the other page you have to discard. Having to use the old style ones is not even an option after using the Apple Pencil. Get one and you will see what we mean. Peace

The important point is, we have purchased a product because it did what we required. 2 years latter it suddenly does not meet the original specification. All that is required is an option in the settings of the relevant apps to turn the new default off. A simple request and everyone will be happy.

Please Apple sort this one out.