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Apple Pencil is a great addition to your iPad. In addition to drawing, it can also handle sketching, writing, and you can also control a number of elements on your iPad with it. In today's article, we will introduce you to several features Apple Pencilthat you may not have even known about.

Tools and Finger Deactivation

One of the advantages of the iPad is the ability to draw with fingers i Apple Pencil. However, this setting is not always useful. If you want to be sure that your iPad will only register input from your Apple Pencil and not from your fingers, launch Settings -> on your iPad Apple Pencil, where you just need to activate the Draw only with option Apple Pencil. if you have Apple Pencil second generation, you can go to Settings -> Apple Pencil set what tools will be available to you and what actions will be triggered when you double-click on Apple Pencil.

Double-tap to open Notes on a locked iPad

iPad offers in the case of both generations Apple Pencil a useful feature that allows you to double-tap Apple Pencil open a new note on your iPad's lock screen. Don't worry about privacy - only the note will be available until you unlock your iPad. You can enable the ability to create a note from your iPad's lock screen in Settings -> Notes, where you enable the Lock Screen Access option and set what action to take when you tap Apple Pencil to occur.

Acquisition screenshotu

Apple Pencil You can also use it to take a screenshot on your iPad. Just place the tip Apple Pencil to any corner of your iPad and then swipe towards the center of the screen. A full-screen screenshot will be automatically taken and the system will take you to the annotation tool, where you can further edit, share, choose a saving method, or move the captured image to the trash.

Scribble feature

You can also use the Scribble function on an iPad with the iPadOS 14 operating system and later. If you activate it, you can with help Apple Pencil Write by hand wherever possible and the system will convert your handwriting to traditional. First, launch Settings -> Apple Pencil, where you activate the Handwriting feature. To use this feature, you must also set up the English keyboard in Settings -> Keyboard, but it is not necessary to have it activated.

Outline

Did you enjoy tracing when you were a child, when, for example, you attached the original drawing to the window, covered it with blank paper and traced? You can also do the same with the iPad - just carefully place the paper with the drawing you want to transfer onto the iPad's display, then start over the paper using Apple Pencil to trace the given drawing. Apple Pencil It is a precise enough tool that it can handle this task, but the paper with the original drawing should not be too thick.

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