Support for a New Apple Pencil

Alongside Battery Health, the iPadOS 17.5 beta also showed news about a new version of the Apple Pencil. The folks at MacRumors reported that a “V4” version of the Apple Pencil was referenced in the first beta of iOS 17.5. 

Not only that, but 9to5Mac also found references to a new squeeze gesture which would add more functionality to the new Apple Pencil.

Of course, this is something we expect Apple to reveal during tomorrow’s event, but it could potentially mean that older iPads might get support for the new Apple Pencil. 

That said, Apple doesn’t usually handle new Apple Pencils this way, so we’ll have to wait and see.