What Apple Pencil and iPad Do I Need?

There are many iPads out there, and only two Apple Pencils. e Wcannot handle the horror of you buying the wrong Apple Pencil for your iPad. Just imagining the great anticipation as you unpack the pencil, only for it to be destroyed by the fact you can’t use it hurts us. Therefore we wrote this short blog to help you avoid buying the wrong Apple Pencil for your iPad. 

What iPad Do I Have?

So, how do you know which iPad you have? You can find out in a couple of easy-to-follow steps, for instance:

1. First turn on your iPad (incredibly useful, cannot overstate the importance of this step)
2. Then open “Settings”
3. Go to “General”
4. Go to “About”

After that, you will see Name, Software Version, and Model Name. Focus on “Model Name.” This is how to tell which generation iPad you have. Now that you have found out what model iPad you have, it is time to move on to the next step.

Which Apple Pencil Is Compatible With My iPad?

In order to answer this question we will consult the beautiful table below. Besides that this gives you a nice overview it also will tell you which generation iPad supports which Apple Pencil. 

Now you know for sure which generation iPad you have and what Apple Pencil is compatible with that. We have done our job of preventing the horror of a mismatch. This was very important to us. And above all thank you for reading this article.

Now go on and create!

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