Beginning with iPadOS 18, which can be extensively launched later this 12 months, iPad apps can provide customized drawing instruments for the Apple Pencil.
For instance, in a WWDC 2024 coding video final week, Apple demonstrated how an app may implement a software that enables for cat paw prints and different animal-related symbols to be added to a drawing. The customized instruments help options on the brand new Apple Pencil Professional, together with the squeeze gesture and barrel roll motion.
iOS 18 and visionOS 2 additionally help customized drawing instruments in apps, however the iPhone and Imaginative and prescient Professional don’t help the Apple Pencil. As all the time, any drawing software may also be managed along with your finger and different enter strategies.
Along with customized instruments, apps throughout iPadOS 18, iOS 18, and visionOS 2 are capable of change the number of default drawing instruments that seem within the system software picker. Apple stated apps are even capable of provide a number of instruments of the identical sort for added comfort, similar to two colours of pens or two colours of markers.
iPadOS 18, iOS 18, and visionOS 2 are at the moment in beta.
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