

Like all commonplace, capacitive stylii, none of these stylii have screen pressure sensing OR palm rejection. The better of both the disc tipped stylii and the battery operated “active’ stylii are made by Adonit stylii. The better, more accurate versions of these are capacitive stylii with a clear disc tip for more accurate drawing.Īnother type of commonplace capacitive stylii is the fine tip/ballpoint-like tipped, battery operated, so-called “active” stylus that uses a tiny battery to send small electrical signals to a fine point tipped stylus that mimics an actual finger touch.Īll of these types of stylii suffer from varying degrees of line wobble when drawing angular lines. You have other stylus options like found everywhere, commonplace, capacitive stylii to use with your older iPad Air. The one I usually recommend, the Adonit Pixel stylus, has been out of stock, everywhere, for months, due to the worldwide pandemic, as there is no way to predict when this stylus will be available, again, if at all!
#Apple pencil 1st gen Bluetooth#
There is no Apple Pencil-like, smart Bluetooth stylus that I can, honestly, recommend, currently for older iPad models. This includes the 2017, 5th gen 9.7 inch screen iPad. Older iPads are missing a crucial internal hardware screen layer needed for an Apple Pencil to interact with these older iPad screens.

No iPad made before late Fall 2015 is compatible with ANY Apple Pencil.
