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The New iPad and iPad Pro Review: Mixed Signals

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Apple Pencil Hover on the iPad Pro

Apple has been really clever in how they built Apple pencil hover it's based on the same API as the pointer and the and the trackpad basically so when you're hovering with the pencil all of the hover effects that are normally excre the normally work with the pointer like with the magic keyboard. If you're a developer your app will likely already support Apple pencil hover if you've done the work to integrate with the trackpad and the pointer but my point is slightly different from this what I really liked was using Apple pencil hover as an input method in addition to the touch of my fingers to gain access to features that normally when I'm just holding the iPad Pro as a tablet I don't have

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