Find My Apple Pencil is the last missing piece of the puzzle

Speaking of misplaced stuff, there’s one iPad function that I hope Apple finds a technique to ship. There’s already a patent for it, and iOS 17 is a constructive signal that it might truly occur.

For households like mine, the Apple Pencil needs to be bought in packs of 4. That’s not as a result of now we have 4 iPads in use, however as a result of there’s all the time a misplaced Apple Pencil hiding someplace.

They’re not misplaced in the wild. They all the time flip up, however normally in time for alternative Pencil to get misplaced. It’s not the most cost-effective factor to switch, but it surely’s simply the nature habits for the Apple Pencil (and extra importantly, youngsters).

Apple constructed an AirTag into the AirPods Pro 2 case with its U1 chip. iOS 17 will allow you to use Bluetooth in your iPhone to level you towards your missing Apple TV distant. But the Apple Pencil should fend for itself.

If you do misplace an Apple Pencil, you possibly can variety of decide if it’s close by based mostly on energetic Bluetooth connections to its paired iPad. That’s useful should you’re undecided if the Pencil is caught between automobile seats or at the backside of a toy field.

These are all utterly hypothetical conditions and never experiences… from the last two months… okay, you’ve received me. Anyway, including an Apple TV distant methodology based mostly on Bluetooth may very well be very cool!

That explicit function isn’t out but, so the verdict is nonetheless out as as to whether or not it’s reliably useful. Anything will help, although.

Perhaps the answer might be this acoustic-based methodology described on this Apple patent software last month. All I do know is that I’m sure to find a number of Apple Pencils of my very own if this function ships.