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9.3 Beta 2 Apple Pencil?
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Guess I won't be getting an Apple pencil then. The only use I have for actual writing on my iPad would be to occasionally sign a PDF. Not worth the cost for only that.
If you aren't drawing, then the Apple Pencil might not be for you. There are cheaper alternatives.
I'm a bit surprised that Apple would tell a developer that though. Prior to 9.3, that support was for free, so there was nothing that the dev could realistically do to disable it without running afoul of private APIs. And with 9.3, there isn't much you can do to re-enable it without the same risk. So why would Apple tell a developer to not do something they shouldn't be doing in the first place for multiple reasons?
From my understanding they've been working on a drawing app and had some bugs related to the interaction between the Pencil and the UI versus the drawing mode. They asked for help and someone from Apple told them to simply not use the Pencil for operating the UI.
Got my pencil today and granted I won't use it for the UI loads but I do like using it at times when scrolling so hopefully they continue to allow this.
Same here. Anyway I can reduce even a little of the fingerprint buffet on this screen the better.
Next beta should be next week. DP probably on either Monday or Tuesday and PB on either Wednesday or Thursday.
I'm kind of not using the pencil as much scrolling with the UI purely because of this issue on 9.3...hoping this is just a bug but I fear the worse.
Could you point us to the source of this statement please. Otherwise no one's going to believe it
Fact or opinion? It's written like the former. What makes you so sure?
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Just as I thought it's BS. If it was true you could point to the link easily instead of asking another member to "search it out", what a lame thing to do!
What's with the attitude? sjleworthy gave you the link... it's on the FRONT PAGE.
And why do you think it's BS? Read...
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/23/apple-pencil-navigation-returning-ios-9-3/
"There were rumors suggesting the feature removal was intentional, but Apple today told The Verge that's not the case.
Apple has confirmed that the features that have been removed in iOS 9.3 will be returning in the next beta, and that they have been temporarily pulled as the company works on improvements."We believe a finger will always be the primary way users navigate on an iPad, but we understand that some customers like to use Apple Pencil for this as well and we've been working on ways to better implement this while maintaining compatibility during this latest beta cycle," a spokesperson said. "We will add this functionality back in the next beta of iOS 9.3.""
Better?!
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