Apple introduced the Pencil Pro at its iPad event on Tuesday. It’s the first new Pencil we’ve seen since the second-gen Pencil was released in 2018. The Apple Pencil Pro features a new squeeze sensor with haptic feedback and a gyroscope for new twisting “barrel roll” gestures.
The new squeeze gesture can be used to open context menus such as a tool palette, and the barrel roll gesture then lets you twist the Pencil Pro to select a new tool or change a brush type, size or color. Haptics provide useful feedback when you squeeze or double-tap, and the haptics can also be used with the hover gesture to help you align elements in your drawing.
