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I don’t understand the Apple Pencil Pro
Apple’s new ‘squeeze’ gesture on the Apple Pencil Pro is neat, but the company needs to refine the user experience. Users have to make a choice.
As part of the release of the iPad Pro with M4 chip, Apple introduced refinements to two of its accessories: the Magic Keyboard and the Apple Pencil. The new Apple Pencil Pro brings the usual features such as double-tap, magnetic charging and ‘hover’ (the latter showing a little previous of your selected drawing/writing tool), and introduces a new feature called ‘squeeze’. The internet has got a little bit over excited about this feature, so I was eager to try it out. I don’t want to focus in this blog on the bewildering array of Pencils now available or the weird naming convention that slaps ‘pro’ to anything new, shiny or expensive (that’s the subject of another post): I just want to give you an insight into using the new Apple Pencil Pro and assess the combination of software and hardware that Apple likes to advertise as one of its core strengths.
The new Apple Pencil Pro looks like the old Apple Pencil 2. They are the same length, the same breadth and use the same tips (good news if you have previously purchased a job-lot of them as spares). Even the surface of the Pencil Pro is the same as before: being a soft matte texture, rather than the shiny finish found on the first-generation of Apple Pencils…
