I needed the Apple Pencil Professional, which leaked a couple of days earlier than Apple’s “Let Unfastened” livestream on Might 7, to have two issues: FindMy assist and a Area Black shade variant.
Apple has solely answered a kind of prayers. Hallelujah! The Apple Pencil Professional has FindMy assist. As clumsy and forgetful as I’m, it is a want.
Sadly, there isn’t any Area Black Apple Pencil Professional, however the Apple Pencil Professional nonetheless has a ton of latest options that I used to be in a position to experiment with at a latest presentation in New York Metropolis.
The whole lot Apple introduced throughout its iPad occasion, together with the brand new OLED iPad Professional
“Squeeze me!”
Because the rumor mill predicted, there’s truly a brand new squeeze gesture on the Apple Pencil Professional. As I squeezed the Apple Pencil Professional, letting my index finger relaxation on the flat edge as I pinched it, I felt one thing was barely there, leading to satisfying haptic suggestions that introduced up the instruments palette within the Freeform app.
Press the Apple Pencil Professional somewhat.
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After which I may select the pen kind, shade, line width, opacity and extra.
After all, this is not the one function the squeeze gesture can entry. This profit is obtainable to builders, so you may get pleasure from utilizing the enjoyable new gesture with different apps, opening up an entire new world of enjoyable with the Apple Pencil Professional.
The Barrel Roll
The barrel roll was my favourite experimental function within the show case. This function lets you carry out a rotational movement with the Apple Pencil, increasing the cool potentialities of your digital creative creations.
For instance, in Procreate (a drawing app), I pulled up a colourful illustration of a lady with dangling blue earrings.
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To provide the earring a cool spiral design, all I needed to do was use the Liquify function earlier than rotating the tip of the Apple Pencil Professional on the sapphire gemstone. And identical to that, I remodeled her earring, which was large and a bit uninteresting, right into a swirly, enjoyable jewellery.
I additionally tried the barrel roll function in Procreate Goals, an animation app.
Destructible pace of sunshine
I dragged an object into an animation scene. When rotating the Apple Pencil, I couldn’t solely make the article transfer back and forth by way of the scene, but additionally make it rotate to indicate totally different dimensions because the scene progressed. I am not an animator, however this function made me really feel like I used to be able to animate the following Pixar movie. (Rent me, Disney!)
Hover is coming to the M2 iPad Air
To date I’ve tried all of those options on the brand new M4 iPad Professional.
So I made a decision to attempt these options on the newly introduced M2 iPad Air with the identical success. It is also value noting that Apple has prolonged the hover function to the M2 iPad Air, permitting you to preview your stroke earlier than you execute it.
I do know that is apparent, however it’s nonetheless value noting that the iPad Professional’s show is considerably higher than the iPad Air’s display screen. I discovered it really easy to doodle and mess around on the iPad Professional that it was good , vibrant OLED show. Nevertheless, the iPad Air was displayed in a shiny room, so its lower-quality panel wasn’t as seen as its higher-end sibling.
You’ll be able to clearly see the distinction between the iPad Professional’s 1,600-nit show (prime) and the iPad Air’s 500-600-nit display screen.
The haptic suggestions is delicate however welcome
I performed round with the Apple Pencil Professional’s haptic suggestions after mentioning the instruments palette (utilizing the brand new squeeze gesture, in fact) and tapping the Undo button.
Apple Pencil Professional on iPad Professional
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A semicircle with undo icons appeared. The extra icons I handed with the Apple Pencil Professional tip, the extra disappeared (and have been undone) out of your display screen. Together with this function, I felt a delicate “tick” of haptic suggestions with each icon I touched.
You can too really feel haptic suggestions while you change between eraser and pen utilizing the double-tap perform, for instance, supplying you with extra confidence in your workflow.
Compatibility with Apple Pencil Professional
No, the Apple Pencil Professional will not be appropriate with any earlier mannequin of the iPad Professional, together with the 2022 variants.
Why? There seems to be some kind of new charging mechanism for the Apple Pencil Professional that makes it incompatible with older fashions. Subsequently, the Apple Pencil Professional is barely out there for the brand new M2 iPad Air and M4 iPad Professional fashions. (You can too use the USB-C Apple Pencil with these new iPads.)
One other drawback is that the Apple Pencil 2 will not be appropriate with the brand new iPads.
The Apple Pencil Professional prices $129 on Apple’s official web site, the identical worth because the Apple Pencil 2.