If you liked the first Apple Pencil, you’ll like this.
The second-gen Apple Pencil was revealed today at Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” media event in Brooklyn, the new stylus for the iPad Pro featuring support for gestures developers can assign in their apps.
The new Apple Pencil has a swipe and tap area that can perform secondary tasks, similar to the way the side buttons on Wacom’s own tablet styluses work. Tapping the side of the stylus, for example, can switch brushes in art applications.
The new Apple Pencil also magnetically attaches to the side of the 2018 model iPad Pro, and charges wirelessly.
Apple also improved its pairing system via a tap-and-use system introduced earlier this year with the Logitec Crayon stylus for the 9.7-inch iPad. The updated protocol allows users not to have to plug their Apple Pencil into an iPad’s Lightning port to pair it.
The second generation Apple Pencil is priced at $129. Pre-orders start today, with units going on sale come November 7th.
Via The Mac Observer