Apple’s “Let Free” occasion did a fantastic job of tidying up the iPad lineup, eradicating the ninth-generation mannequin, dropping the worth of the tenth-generation one, and including contemporary new iPad Air and iPad Professional fashions.
It additionally launched a brand new Apple Pencil mannequin, the Apple Pencil Professional, however as with the brand new Magic Keyboard, it isn’t backwards appropriate with older units within the pill lineup.
That is in keeping with Apple’s retailer web page for the $129/£129 Apple Pencil Professional, which lists appropriate iPad fashions as the most recent iPad Air with M2 and the most recent M4 iPad Professionals.
In response to Apple, this is because of a change within the pairing and charging course of.
What’s new with the Apple Pencil Professional?
The brand new mannequin signifies that Apple is now promoting 4 completely different variations of Apple Pencil, between the unique, the second era one, the USB-C one, and the Apple Pencil Professional.
In a approach, making this only for the most recent fashions does assist clear up some confusion, however what can it do?
As was reported final month, the brand new Apple Pencil Professional affords haptic suggestions that pairs with a brand new “squeeze” gesture that permits a person to alter instruments with a useful shortcut menu. The Pencil Professional can even roll, utilizing a gyroscope, for extra exact management, and it nonetheless has hover, which was beforehand a function unique to the M2 iPad Professional.
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