The brand new Apple Pencil Professional is more durable to lose and higher to attract with

Apple introduced its third-generation Apple Pencil as we speak throughout its “Let Free” iPad occasion, including Discover My help and new capabilities for adapting the stylus to totally different artistic duties. Accessible to order as we speak for $129, the Apple Pencil Professional introduces options nearer to what you’d discover on pens for devoted drawing tablets — like a “Barrel Roll” gyroscope characteristic and a squeeze gesture for switching between software program features.

That is the primary actual replace to the Apple Pencil collection because the second-generation mannequin was introduced in 2018. Whereas the extra inexpensive USB-C Apple Pencil that was launched final yr supported a wider vary of iPad fashions than the Apple Pencil 2, it additionally ditched superior second-gen options like stress sensitivity and double-tap device switching — making it much less helpful for duties like graphic design and 3D sculpting.

The Apple Pencil Professional carries these superior options over from its predecessor, alongside new ones like haptic suggestions, which reacts relying on how the stylus is getting used, and a squeeze gesture much like the stem on the Apple AirPods Professional 2.