It’s been nearly eight years since the Apple Pencilin its first generation, was presented by those from Cupertino in September 2015, in a presentation in which the first generation of the iPad Pro was also announced, in a clear sign that the company saw that the duo formed by the tablet and the pointing device offered an enormous set of possibilities to all its potential users.
They weren’t wrong, of course, and over the years the Apple Pencil has been gaining traction not only among iPad Pro users, but also those who opt for other Apple tablet models. However, despite the fact that the second generation arrived three years after the launch of the first, in 2018, since then there has been no renewal, something that is somewhat striking in a company like Apple.
Be that as it may, the Apple Pencil user base has grown over time, and of course, the same can be said about Apple tablets, which today account for a really large portion of the market for this type of device. , to the joy of those from Cupertino. However, among users using both devices, bliss seems to be suddenly affected by a new limitation that has just been discovered.
This is the effect of trying to draw a straight line with an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro with a non-genuine screen. Image: ArsTechnica
As we can read in Ars Technica, The Apple Pencil has stopped working correctly on iPads whose screens are not official, that is, if the original iPad screen has suffered some type of damage and has been replaced by another that is not original from Apple, the operation of the pointing device will no longer be adequate. To verify this, the media has collected the testimony of Ricky Panesar, executive director of the British repair firm iCorrect.
Thus, according to his testimony, the affected models are the iPad Pro (12.9-inch 5th and 6th generation and 11-inch 3rd and 4th generation models), and the problem is that when trying to use the Apple Pencil on them, if a non-genuine Apple display has been mounted, it becomes impossible to draw straight lines, as the path deviates from the trajectory marked with the pencil. According to Panesar, this would not be accidental, but seems to respond to Apple’s intentions.
Little, if not to say nothing, should surprise us a new move by Apple against the right to repaira cause with more and more followers, but which in Cupertino still does not quite fit in, for whatever…
