M2 iPad Pro Features New Hover Mode for Apple Pencil

[MacRumors]

The new M2 iPad Pro supports a new feature with the second-generation Apple Pencil that allows users to hover their Apple Pencil over their display to expand content, apps, widgets, and more.

Explaining the feature on the iPad Pro's features page, Apple says:

A new dimension of Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil hover shows you exactly where your Apple Pencil will touch down on your display. So you can write, sketch, and illustrate with even greater precision. Watch apps and widgets expand on the Home Screen as you move over them. Preview your mark before you make it. See how your watercolors mix before you paint. Apple Pencil hover makes everything you do with Apple Pencil even more effortless

The new M2 iPad Pro paired with the second-generation Apple Pencil can detect electromagnetic signals transmitted by the tip of the pencil from up to 12mm away from the display. "M2 instantly interprets those signals and determines the position of Apple Pencil in three dimensions," according to Apple. The new M2 iPad Pro is otherwise a minor upgrade, featuring just the new M2 Apple silicon chip and improved Wi-Fi.

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[yellow8]

I think this will be awesome. I hope this will be opened to developers soon.

 

[MayaUser]

for those who use ProRes, and ProRes RAW is huge upgrade...why people are looking at this ipad pro for media consumption when there are way better ipads for that, the ipad and the ipad air

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

No SD Card; no MagSafe 3; no Pro.

Hover over those new iPad prices. The iPad line, like the iPhone line, is a mess. iPad 10th gen is too much like Air for Air to exist. iPad with home button should not exist. Lineup should be iPad mini, 10th gen iPad and iPad Pro... and the Pro should have Pro port selection.

 

[Wiesenlooser]

I mean this feature existed since decades with other digitizers.

 

[murdoc2k]

The new M2 iPad Pro supports a new feature with the second-generation Apple Pencil that allows users to hover their Apple Pencil over their display to expand content, apps, widgets, and more.

Explaining the feature on the iPad Pro's features page, Apple says:
The new M2 iPad Pro paired with the second-generation Apple Pencil can detect electromagnetic signals transmitted by the tip of the pencil from up to 12mm away from the display. "M2 instantly interprets those signals and determines the position of Apple Pencil in three dimensions," according to Apple. The new M2 iPad Pro is otherwise a minor upgrade, featuring just the new M2 Apple silicon chip and improved Wi-Fi.

Article Link: M2 iPad Pro Features New Hover Mode for Apple Pencil

You for got 50% more memory bandwidth and 80% faster neuro engine.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Just like s-pen basically ?

 

[madmin]

The proper Pro stuff is here, this top iPad is now available for 3,044 euros
Add Applecare, Pencil and Magic Keyboard for the ultraPro price of 3,781 Euros

for that true well toned iPad ultraPro experience

 

[Techwatcher]

And why can’t the M1 iPad Pro do this?

 

[toxotis700]

Wow… DaVinci resolve , affinity bublisher, octane render etc are coming for iPads pro!

 

[MayaUser]

No SD Card; no MagSafe 3; no Pro.

Hover over those new iPad prices. The iPad line, like the iPhone line, is a mess. iPad 10th gen is too much like Air for Air to exist. iPad with home button should not exist. Lineup should be iPad mini, 10th gen iPad and iPad Pro... and the Pro should have Pro port selection.

no sd card, no floppy disk, no optical drive, no flash support...no PRO
ProRes, and ProRes RAW hardware support makes this more pro than all of that combined

 

[madmin]

Anyone else into hovercraft ?

 

[MayaUser]

Anyone else into hovercraft ?

we have to use that to make an opinion...like 3d touch was...one thing is in videos and another when you live with it day by day

 

[Wildkraut]

Wow… DaVinci resolve , affinity bublisher, octane render etc are coming for iPads pro!

Looking forward to Affinity bublisher...

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

And why can’t the M1 iPad Pro do this?

Because Apple wants you to buy their latest iPad.

 

[toxotis700]

 

[anthogag]

Only Pros can hover. 🤪

 

[LogicalApex]

And why can’t the M1 iPad Pro do this?

It isn’t fast enough! You need the M2 for that kind of power!! 🤣

 

[WiiDSmoker]

And why can’t the M1 iPad Pro do this?

Oh it certainly can, but Tim gotta make sure the share holders are taken care of first.

 

[Wildkraut]

we have to use that to make an opinion...like 3d touch was...one thing is in videos and another when you live with it day by day

No way an iPad can replace my 3d workflow in anyway.
I script and batch process too much, and also import and export stuff to/from network shares to see changes instantly in other software like game engines, etc.

But a nice light couch device for scribling ideas and preconcept.

 

[wigby]

And why can’t the M1 iPad Pro do this?

M1 iPad doesn't have pro-res co-processors and is not as power efficient as M2. That doesn't answer your question but it should give you a clue as to what Apple thinks is the real pro iPad device for pros.

 

[Spock]

I am sure that Apple has a far more improved version because I remember it being a pain on the Dell tablet that I had. You could hover but sometimes you would press the stylus to close to the screen and it would register as a touch and mess up whatever you were hovering for.

 

[orbital~debris]

Always find it interesting that many people with an US accent pronounce the word 'hover' without the 'o' ("of") sound, and more like as if it was spelled "huvver".

 

[kiensoy]

Surprising how many things the first Microsoft Surface got right. Hovering pen, kickstand, detachable keyboard with trackpad, camera on top when in landscape. At the time the iPad required a keyboard dock in portrait orientation and had no pencil support.

 

[Jensend]

Good to see this. This was one of the major deficiencies of the Apple Pencil compared to most other stylus systems. The lack of any buttons on the Pencil would be the other deficiency, for me.
One nice thing the hover ability could add is the ability to use the pencil to control the cursor on an external display or a Mac. When I used a Cintiq with a Mac, I often controlled the second display using the stylus.