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We’ve been hearing lots of conflicting rumours about new iPads recently, with the most recent crop claiming that we’ll see minor improvements to theiPad Airany day now. But now a new report says that previous reports are mistaken.Appleis indeed planning a tablet-related launch this month, but it’s not a new tablet. It’s a new Apple Pencil.
Apple Pencil 3: what we know so far
The third generation Apple Pencil is believed to have a significant change: the tips are magnetic and interchangeable, so you’ll be able to choose a tip that’s appropriate to the kind of drawing you’re doing: a fine pencil for technical drawing, a broad brush for watercolour painting, a larger, deeper pen tip for illustration and so on.
The current Apple Pencil has been around for a while: it was launched way back in 2018, making it one of the oldest Apple products currently on sale – second only to the first generation, which has been with us since 2015. Because it charges wirelessly it didn’t need to be updated for the new USB-C iPads, but the first-generation still has a Lightning connector for charging. It’s possible that that less complex Pencil may get a USB-C update to keep it compatible with more recent iPads.
One feature we’re not hearing anything about is that favourite request of Apple fans on the Apple Pencil support pages:iPhonecompatibility. The size of theiPhone 15 PlusandiPhone 15 Pro Maxwould lend themselves toSamsung Galaxy S23 Ultra-style pen input, but the current Apple Pencil is a little too large and neither phone has the space or magnetic attachment required to charge it.
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