How to turn Smart Annotation off???

There were some updates a few days ago but I just tested and this is still not fixed. Smart annotations just re-enables itself as soon as the pen touches the screen. So frustrating. I wish I had very pointy fingers but alas no.

Brilliant !!! . Though I hadn't found it there. Why is this setting buried in the settings and not in the app like all the others !! And I can move things on the ruler to format paragraphs.. fab !! Finally ...

Actually .. Close .... but no cigar. I was trying to re-align a paragraph and control a hanging indent using the pencil. The controls on the ruler move with the pencil and .. grrrrr ..... snap back to where they were before when I let go. This doesnt happen with my finger, but setting the ruler with my finger just isn't as accurate for grabbing those tiny handles. Seems like a bug to me come on Apple.

Thanks. I found the setting to turn on the Apple Pencil use. Was that added in a recent update? It works on Pages, I don't have Numbers or Keynote. Now I can use Pages to write and edit with the pencil. Once again, thanks!

Also just upgraded to IOS 11.3. Didn’t work either. Also I have found the same problem in Notes.

Yep, it seems that control isn't as useful as it seemed it would be. 😟

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I have already done that for Pages and Numbers.

Thanks

Not working for me. That option is greyed out unfortunatily.

Turned out that option doesn't really do what it says anyway. Apple clearly need to work on this feature. 😮

tt2

I can edit the ruler if I tilt the pencil all the way to the side... but have to get lucky. I have reported this as a defect.

I can’t find View Options. I used Pages for the first time in a long time today, and I can’t edit with my Apple Pencil or even my finger because of “Smart Annotations,” something I have no use for.

I have also had the same problem, as soon as I touch the screen it reverts to the smart annotate feature which I had previously turned off. Not so SMART annotate has left me binning the pencil. Now I have fought with apple for over a week three days of which they stonewalled me.

I am being told the engineers cannot replicate the problem, they have insufficient complaints or instances to make it even an issue for them, and their only suggestion was to revert to back up. I cannot as the last saved one is post update since they took so long to even make this basic suggestion.

However it have been a learning process in the last week I have learnt that

1. Apple care nothing for individual customers.

2. They do not have a proper complaints procedure.

3. They rely on the small print to shift any liability onto the consumer.

4. No one in their apple care department had the initiative to try their own iPad Pro and pencil to see if it was a problem there.

5. When urged to do so the last apple care manager informed me he didn’t even own and no one else in the centre would own a pencil or iPad Pro - clearly having seen the poor performance they have decided PC and Microsoft I’d the way forward.

6. They will not fix or replace faulty software

7. Despite the millions they make daily Apple uses its own customers as Guinea Pigs to test software - this Beta test was the only one they were foolish enough to call by its own name.

8. Each years millions of pounds/dollars are lost by apple customers who lose time and money due to software glitches and mistakes that are not fully tested before release.

9. Apple Care should be renamed Apple Couldn’t Care Less and refused to either fix the problem as not enough people had complained, refused to restore a working version of pages, refused to compensate me.

10. The arrogance of their staff was only matched by their ignorance of any issue they did not have scripted in front of them.

I however wish to act not speak, so for those with more technical knowledge than me is there anyway that I can restore an old pre-update version of pages. My oldest backup is after the update and I am not a user of ITunes and would not have connected the iPad Pro to the computer.

Is the only practical solution to invest in a different stylus and ditch the pencil since my finger works fine? Has anyone tried a different Apple Pencil ?

Finally for the more tech minded what another forums are there or websites / publications where I can put these views across and expose the shoddy practices of Rotten Apple?

Try:

• Settings > Pages > Select and Scroll with Apple Pencil ---> enable (green)
• Settings > Numbers > Select and Scroll with Apple Pencil ---> enable
• Settings > Keynote > Select and Scroll with Apple Pencil ---> enable