Pairing 1st generation Apple Pencil

iPad with Apple Pencil
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One of the (now not so) little people got a new 10th generation iPad for Christmas.

He asked if he could borrow my first generation Apple Pencil to do some drawing on his iPad. Now what I wasn’t sure what to do was how to pair this. It needed charging first and I tried using my iPhone which didn’t work. I then got out the old iPad, charged that for a while and then charged the pencil. I realised that the pencil was paired via Bluetooth with the older iPad, so I unpaired them.

We then tried to pair the now charged pencil with the new iPad and no joy. 

Reading on the web, it was apparent that the method of pairing was to plug the pencil into the iPad. Now this is where we had a challenge. The 1st generation Apple Pencil has a Lightning connector, the 10th generation iPad had an USB-C connector.

What I don’t have is a USB-C to Lighting adapter. I do have a USB-C to Lightning cable, which came with my phone, but this has a male Lightning connector and the pencil also has a male Lightning connector. I have mislaid the female-to-female Lightning adapter that came with the pencil a few years ago. 

So it is looking like I will need to go shopping to buy this USB-C to Lighting adapter.

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