Apple launches cheaper $79 Apple Pencil with hidden USB-C charging port

Apple on Tuesday announced a brand new $79 Apple Pencil with a hidden USB-C charging port that can launch in November. Prior fashions required customers to cost by plugging the pencil into the iPad charging port.

It’s the most affordable Apple Pencil so far and works with all USB-C iPads, although it lacks a number of the options of the dearer Apple Pencils.

It can connect magnetically to the perimeters of USB-C iPads, for instance, however does not cost wirelessly just like the $129 second-generation Apple Pencil. It additionally lacks strain sensitivity, which is obtainable within the older $99 Apple Pencil, and means it might be higher for individuals who simply have to take notes as a substitute of digital artists.

The transfer comes after final month’s new iPhone 15 lineup which options USB-C charging rather than a Lightning port. The firm said final yr it will shift to the frequent charging normal in compliance with European Union legislation.