I'm planning on purchasing a second Apple pencil - One to leave in my backpack & one to leave at home for use. Anyone know if I'm able to use both pencils? Not necessarily at the same time but when I'm at school I use one, and when I'm home, I use the other one. Will I have to unpair/repair every time I switch pencils to use on my iPad Pro?
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Can I use two Apple Pencils?
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you will need to plug the pencil in to pair each time you change pencils. The iPad only stay paired with one at a time. I wanted to do the same, but now just leave on in my bag that is always with me as a backup just in case I leave the pencil I always use either at home or at work by mistake. Which has happened a couple of times.
Yep, you have to re-pair each time you swap physical pencils because as mentioned above, only one pencil can by paired at a time. It literally only takes 1-2 seconds to do though. Plug it into the Lightning port, the Bluetooth icon in the Status Bar will blink twice and that's it, it's paired.
