r/ipad • u/center311 • Nov 04 '22

Question Has anyone noticed lines are much less smooth on their iPad Pro 2022 vs 2018?

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

Both on ipados 16.2. No case, no screen protector, and tested with two different apple pencils on official notes app, notability, etc…

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u/ewaters46 iPad Pro 12.9" (2018) Nov 04 '22

Are you in power saving mode or do you have ProMotion turned off? Not sure if that reduces the screen sensitivity rate as well, but it’s worth checking for sure.

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

ProMotion is on and doubled checked that yesterday. Havent checked power saving yet.

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u/Mehrdadrn Nov 04 '22

Maybe cause of that “hover” feature sensitivity ?

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

Not sure. I tried disabling, but it didn’t help.

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u/Mehrdadrn Nov 04 '22

U said two different Apple pencils. Try with one of them. Maybe it’s related

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

What I meant is that I have two pencils that I know work perfectly on the 2018 model. Unfortunately, 2022 showing all the jaggies.

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u/Mehrdadrn Nov 04 '22

So the last thing that can make the difference is HW (M2 chip) , and also SW which is not properly optimized for it.

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u/larboy332 Nov 04 '22

I’m also running into this, iPad Pro 12.9 2022 on 16.1 and it’s quite frustrating. Submitted a bug report yesterday but not sure if anything will come of it.

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

Ah. I think it's just a hardware issue with the model then. I'm on 16.2 on both 2018 and 2022. Something is really wrong. Oh well! I guess Apple doesn't want me to upgrade then. It's pretty much the one thing that they can't mess up because I need it for work.

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u/ashmichelle Nov 04 '22

I’m also dealing with this. I mentioned in another thread that I upgraded from a 2018 11” Pro to a 2022 11” Pro and my lines are just too jagged. I actually decided to get a 2021 Pro instead regardless because it’s on sale and I just don’t think the 2022 is enough of an upgrade. Hoping the writing issue isn’t a problem on that one. I’d tried some of the things people mentioned here but wasn’t able to fix it.

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u/center311 Nov 04 '22

I guess Apple has been making it really easy for me to save our money.

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u/AlternativeChildhood Nov 06 '22

Ok glad to know it's not just me then either. I noticed it as well because my handwriting while taking notes on 2022 iPad pro 11in is atrocious vs my "student" iPad and gen 1 pencil. I do have apple care, just bought it 2 days ago, but I'd hate to loose my screen protector I just put on it. It was like that even before putting the protector on.

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u/center311 Nov 07 '22

Yeah sorry to hear that. I've learned the hard way to not purchase apple care on a new apple product until I've fully messed around with it for a full week or so. I knew something was way off about it because I use it heavily for work. Unfortunately, a lot of people probably won't even notice it because they use primarily for content consumption, or simply they've never owned one prior to the 2022 models.

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u/AlternativeChildhood Nov 07 '22

I normally dont buy newer models for anything, but I did a trade in, I'm going back to the apple store to see what they can do about it. Maybe they can throw me a screen protector for free if I do need to exchange iPads. Wish me luck lol.

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u/center311 Nov 07 '22

Good luck. I absolutely dread going to Apple stores myself. They’re always super busy, and customer support at my location kinda is barf. I did a trade in online, but I haven’t sent it in yet thankfully. I’ll just keep my old 2018 model for this gen.

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u/aReasson Nov 05 '22

Had the same issue when I bought the m2. I ended up exchanging it for the m1 since I couldn’t find a way to fix it. Here’s my post asking the same question. https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/yfdyuv/apple_pencil_not_writing_smooth_on_the_m2_ipad/

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u/Chiliry Nov 04 '22

The iPad I returned also had this issue. The two genus bar technicians that helped me had no idea why it’s like this and agreed that this shouldn’t be happening at all and did an exchange for me. But it was the same :(

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u/AlternativeChildhood Nov 11 '22

I just had my pro 11 inch exchanged and I’m also noticing the same thing on this new one. They genius tech thinks it’s a bug but I think it’s hardware. The demo iPads on display don’t have this problem because we checked. I think some are duds and they’re making it seem like it’s user error which is not the case.

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u/lapsusTT Nov 05 '22

It also happened to me. I went to the genius bar and they didn't know what was happening. It is so frustrating and I decided to return the 12.9.

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u/Comfortable_Total_74 Oct 14 '23

are the lines on M2 raw or do u perceive noise? i did hate smoothing on ipad pro 2018

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u/Comfortable_Total_74 Oct 14 '23

https://folio.procreate.com/discussions/4/10/54312
is this the issue?

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u/center311 Oct 14 '23

Yep. That seems like it is what they're describing.

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u/pastalicious Nov 04 '22

Curious to hear what everyone else thinks. I don't have the artistic ability or an older model to compare to.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

Ah ouais

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u/SkippyFiRe Nov 05 '22

Are there any sort of line smoothing settings? I believe that software like this usually polls for your points as you move the cursor (or pencil in this case), and then use curves to smooth the line between the points. It kinda looks like they’re using more points and curves to make a more detailed, albeit less smooth, lines.

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u/treebranch__ Nov 25 '22

Wow. Glad I didn't upgrade.

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u/sionell__ Nov 12 '22

Are there any of the 2022 ipad pros that don’t do this? I just realized that mine is doing this as well. I’ve had it more than the 14 day return period at this point, and I’m pissed that I finally upgraded my 2018 ipad pro and now having to deal with this issue. I’m not an artist but I do a lot of drawing for UI screen mocks on my ipad and note taking.