Erasable Logo on Apple's Homepage Hints at New Apple Pencil Coming Tomorrow

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated Apple.com with a teaser for tomorrow's event, adding an interactive erasing feature that seems to hint at a refreshed version of the Apple Pencil.

Hovering over the Apple logo and moving the mouse allows the current artwork to be erased and replaced with a new logo design. Apple created a total of six logos for the May 7 "Let Loose" event, and the interactive eraser cycles through those options.

The event is expected to focus on new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, but rumors suggest the iPads will also be accompanied by an overhauled Apple Pencil and a refreshed version of the Magic Keyboard.

Code in iOS 17.5 mentions an Apple Pencil with a "squeeze" gesture, so it is possible that the new model that's coming will have a hardware-based erase option enabled with a squeeze. The current Apple Pencil models do not have a universal erase feature that works across apps, and adding such an option would likely be popular with users.

Article Link: Erasable Logo on Apple's Homepage Hints at New Apple Pencil Coming Tomorrow

 

[abatabia]

I might even skip this event tbh. I use my Apple Pencil like once a month maybe. If you use it and need it that’s cool but iPads are just not that interesting to me anymore.

 

[zilchfox]

As an artist myself, I’m super excited for this announcement!

 

[Torty]

AI powered erasing. Only possible with M4.

 

[erikkfi]

"We already know, Apple. C'mon, don't you read MacRumors?"

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

While I can't get the least bit excited about a pencil (but happy for those who can), of all accumulated rumors for this one, the one that most excites me is M4... which seems about a coin-flip at that point. I can easily see WHY it COULD happen (in spite of "iPhone must be first" mentalities) and I can about as easily see it NOT happening too.

If it does happen, the excitement (for me) is not so much M4 iPads but how quickly "the rest" would go M4... which- IMO- would be faster than any kind of "normal" schedule/pattern we believe we know from the past... as in new M4 Macs tomorrow? WWDC? (surprise) mid-summer event? Etc.

I hope M4 arrives but not holding my breath. Maybe this will be 2 hours almost entirely about a "we think you'll love it" pencil?

 

[trip1ex]

Launch an AVP with an M2 and ~3 months later launch an iPad with an M4? doesn't add up.


M4 isn't coming tomorrow. These things are coming:

 

[MrSegundus]

Great, another overpriced pencil device.

 

[emulator]

Great, another overpriced pencil device.

Indeed, there are no $2-300 Apple pencils yet.

 

[oneMadRssn]

Apple today updated Apple.com with a teaser for tomorrow's event

I know why not one link in the article actually links to Apple.com. You want folks to stay on MacRumors rather than experience the very thing the article is about. But come on! Of all times to link externally, this is it. Do better!

 

[anthogag]

This Apple eraser could be a simple game for android users.

 

[Coreymac84]

Remarkable feat of engineering.

 

[syklee26]

Can I erase a zero at the end of the price?

 

[Fuzzball84]

Only Pro pencils come with an eraser 😀

 

[Vulkan]

Magik Eraser. I'm calling it. You will never erase again like you can erase now with this new eraser. It's magical!

 

[amaze1499]

Great, another overpriced pencil device.

Apple Pencil Pro Max 180$. Apple Pencil Air 120$.

Something like that?

 

[mnsportsgeek]

I bought an Apple Pencil 2 and used it maybe 3 times, so they will have a hard time getting $199 out of me. Erasing for digital artists seems like it will be a really nice feature though.

 

[jhall527]

My Apple Pencil is basically just my Slay the Spire controller... Really never took to handwriting notes or anything.

 

[jb310]

an interactive erasing feature that seems to hint at a refreshed version of the Apple Pencil.

Will it be just a pencil, or a new AI-powered "magical" eraser just like Google's, well... Magic Eraser™ that they put in their phones? 🤔

 

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

I just wanna try this thing. I bet it does the whole “make glass screens feel like rough artist paper…”

Trippy

 

[Botts85]

Code in iOS 17.5 mentions an Apple Pencil with a "squeeze" gesture, so it is possible that the new model that's coming will have a hardware-based erase option enabled with a squeeze.

Erase will be very nice, but I feel like Wacom's skeumorphic flip the pen and use the eraser as you would with a real pencil remains more intuitive.

 

[SpringKid]

I just wanna try this thing. I bet it does the whole “make glass screens feel like rough artist paper…”

Trippy

If the haptic feedback manages to actually mimic friction I’m definitely getting one.

 

[SpringKid]

Erase will be very nice, but I feel like Wacom's skeumorphic flip the pen and use the eraser as you would with a real pencil remains more intuitive.

I find the current double tap to switch between draw and erase way better than flipping Wacom’s pen.

 

[satchmo]

Erase will be very nice, but I feel like Wacom's skeumorphic flip the pen and use the eraser as you would with a real pencil remains more intuitive.

I find the current double tap works pretty well once you get use to it.

It's also super quick jumping back and forth instead of flipping the pen over to erase.

 

[thefourthpope]

Love how fluidly it works on mobile. I’m not reading into that … I don’t see Apple Pencil coming to iPhone. Just appreciating the detail.