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PSA. IF you have a Apple Pencil charge it often.
Had not used mine for a few months and now it won’t charge at all.
Apparently it’s a know problem and of course I’m out of the warranty period.
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What I would try first is forgetting the pencil in the bluetooth menu. Then charge it a bit by sticking it in the iPad. Then try to discover it again.
Yeah, almost ran into this myself last week. Hadn't used it in a couple months and it wouldn't charge at all at first. Left it connected to my iPad overnight and finally it started to charge and work again. Whoops!
Reaches quickly for his long not-used Apple pencil, sticks it on the iPad - all ok - thinks, "a frigging expensive item NOT to charge after a few months"
Thanks for the PSA!
Mines in the oven just now.
I hope it helps!!
Almost didn't read this thread. Thanks for posting.
Sadly it did not. Thanks for the suggestion.
Wow, thanks for the tip. Need to do this.
That’s horrifying, wow. Have you tried just leaving on the charger for a while? I don’t have a pencil but sometimes if one of my iOS devices has been dead for a long time, if I leave it on the charger for a good while it finally revives itself and turns back on
Shit my wife neeeeever uses hers
Thanks for the tip. My pencil loses its charge over 10 days or so when unused. A once a week charging scheduling appears to be the way to go.
The annoying thing about the pencil is that it wakes with the slightest motion. So if you have it in a case with the iPad, or on your desk or somewhere else that gets moved/bumped/nudged often, it will drain prematurely.
Mine died completely last year. I read lots of discussion about it, and eventually found out that Apple will, “Fix,” them for something like $29. Contacted Apple support online, and it turns out they simply replace them by mail for that price. (Mine was long out of warranty)
Apple shipped it from some place in PA, and it got lost in shipping. When I tracked it, it disappeared in Memphis, at fedex I think. FedEx said they had several lost Apple pencils, so I had to contact Apple get the serial number of the one they had sent me. After that fedex shipped it to me. The return label had been destroyed at the same time the original label had. I had to talk to a nice Apple lady in Texas, who got them to email me a new return label. She also eventually got them to waive the deadline for returning the old pencil. Otherwise they would have charged me $99 plus shipping.
Anyway, for a little over $30 I got a new 1st gen pencil. I do make sure to charge it once in a while, as it does not like to run all the way down, as others have noted. I should also note this was in May/June last year, when the world was a little shakier than usual.
I just plugged mine in because I own StaffPad and it only works effectively with an Apple
Pencil (no 3rd party products). So, the cost of StaffPad ($89) and the $100+ spent on extra
sound libraries mean I would buy another Pencil if my 3 year old rarely used pencil becomes
impotent.
Thanks for the PSA. Any word on relevant STD's? "Protect your pencil, Lad."
Which generation Apple Pencil?
Thank for the reminder!
I haven't used my type 1 Apple Pencil in a few months. Fortunately after just checking it still has a 95% charge after sitting for a few months.
When I first got it, it would loose most of it's charge after sitting unused for 10 days or so.
That's when I read about the issue, and the recommendation to use the bluetooth setting to forget the Pencil and turn bluetooth off and on again.
I have no idea what actually fixed this issue for my Apple Pencil. But the discharge issue seemed to go away after I updated to iOS 12.
I also read that any movement could wake the Pencil. So I keep it in the original box, and keep it in a place where in doesn't get disturbed.
The other thing I recall reading is that the iPad won't update the Pencil's firmware unless the Pencil has a 100% charge. I made sure after I updated to ios12 to charge the Pencil to 100% using the included adapter for charging using the Apple charger. Then I left the pencil plugged into the iPad for about 10 minutes. Apparently the firmware updates in the background without notice.
I also have a 2018 backup ipad. I read somewhere that it's best to store iPads at about 70% charge. It's been sitting for about 6 months and when I just used it to check the Pencil, the iPad battery is still at 69%.
The final information I'd like to share is that I used to keep my 2017 (Daily use) iPad plugged into the charger 99% of the time. I recently read something about iPad batteries needing to go through a discharge cycle from time to time to get max battery life. I used it on battery power and sure enough, it discharged really fast. I then noticed after a recharge it would go back up to 100%, but after a minute of use it would drop to a 85% charge.
The next few days I kept using it on battery only, recharging it back to 100% only after letting the charge drop to about 15%.
After a week of this the battery now holds a full charge again, and will run about 10 hours on a full charge. So now I make sure to unplug the charger from time to time and run the battery down before reconnecting and leaving it on the charger again.
Try it once more mine also made a second trip to the oven before succeeding.
One of the original posters even waited a week after heating before reconecting.
But it is good to hear apple has a replacement service...
Quick word to the wise about returns: always document anything you ship back to Apple—photos, carrier drop off receipts, etc. The carriers are under a huge strain and lose track of deliveries constantly but Apple is very accommodating to shipping issues and return deadlines, as long as you can show common sense evidence of good faith.
So the problem is that the pencil doesn't have an off switch. as long as the ipad is in bluetooth distance, there's an active bluetooth connection sucking the poor thing's batteries dry. So one idea I've read about was to store it in a metal container as that will shield off the bluetooth connection.
(i would definitely prefer paying 30$ every now and then vs "forgetting" the pen and turning bluetooth on/off every time I use the bloody thing...)
agree about the long time it takes to "revive" a deep-discharged battery. had an ipad that took 2 days to start carging again. afterwards it still had a battery that was good enough for multiple hours of garageband recording...
(my theory about the oven thing: higher temperature leads to higher battery voltage so the heat might lift the voltage just enough to make the device think it's gone back from "dead" to "deep discharged"... so maybe it still has to be warm when connecting to the charger?!)
Have tried the oven again but no joy.
I’m on chat with Apple Support. Apparently it’s still covered by warranty so they will replace free of charge. What a result.
I’m sure I’ve had it over a year.