Apple Pencil with Pages on iPad Pro

Is there a way to make the Apple Pencil revert to its old usability in Pages on an iPad Pro? Up until the last major update of Pages, the Pencil could be used to select text, scroll up and down and do useful things. Now all it can do is either draw or annotate. I much preferred the older functions.

Thanks.

iPad Pro 10.5-inch, Wi-Fi, Cellular, iOS 12.0.1

Posted on Oct 9, 2018 1:33 PM

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Oct 9, 2018 1:56 PM in response to BahBah

Settings , Pages, select & scroll with pencil. Same thing for Numbers. 🙂

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Oct 9, 2018 1:56 PM in response to Michael Black

You rock! Thank you!

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