The recent update to Numbers now lets you draw with an Apple pencil. That’s great. However, I rarely would want to draw on a spreadsheet. What I do use often with my Apple pencil in Numbers is scrolling the screen and selecting cells. This now seems to be disabled? I can only draw now with my Apple pencil. Is there anyway to “toggle” the function of the Apple pencil on and off?
iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 11.2.6, Apple Pencil
There does not appear to be - see https://help.apple.com/numbers/ipad/4.0/
With an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, the apps see the pencil as a drawing instrument only. The help files refer to using your finger to navigate. And if yiu have a pencil paired with the iPad, you cannot draw with your finger either.
There does not appear to be - see https://help.apple.com/numbers/ipad/4.0/
With an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, the apps see the pencil as a drawing instrument only. The help files refer to using your finger to navigate. And if yiu have a pencil paired with the iPad, you cannot draw with your finger either.
I deal mainly with spreadsheets and have found the new “feature” so limiting that I have set my Apple Pencil aside until the company sees its way to bring back the navigation feature. For me right now a generic stylus that I received in the mail as a sample is working better for me than the Apple Pencil. Who needs to draw on a spreadsheet????
Apple won’t DO anything unless users send/report feedback on these iOS iWork issues.
You can send feedback here.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/pages_ios.html
https://www.apple.com/feedback/numbers_ios.html
https://www.apple.com/feedback/keynote_ios.html
Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.
OR
Try and contact Apple support directly through one of Apple’s support phone numbers found here.
https://www.apple.com/contact/
Good Luck to You
I contacted Apple Support and they advise me that I cannot turn my pencil off now. Like many people I purchased it when I purchased my iPad Pro - as a navigation tool, especially for Numbers. Now all I van do is crime rubbish over the screeen in Pages and Numbers.
I have submitted my ‘disdain’ on the Apple Feedback Pages for both Numbers and Pages - I wait with baited breathe for this issue to be resolved. Currently I wasted money on my pencil!
The Apple pencil with Numbers
