Why is my Apple Pencil lagging in Procreate on iPad Pro?

I was having an issue with the pencil pro in procreate lagging when drawing on my IPad Pro M4.

I don’t know specifically why but turning off the Zoom function in the accessibility settings has resolved it.

Same problem here, tried the deactivating the zoom but didn’t work. Apparently this is only affecting my Adobe Apps and Procreate but still very annoying, specially for my everyday creative work. I hope we get an update regarding this issue.

I mean it’s a pro product!

I was having the same problem on my iPad Air M2 with the Apple Pencil pro. Turning on Tap Assistance in Settings > Procreate fixed it for me. Try this.

I purchased anew iPad Pro 11” with Apple Pencil pro. Same problem with the pencil. Very laggy and it’s not ProCreate, it is horrible on any app

Deactivating the zoom didn't help me either.

I find it a cheek to sell me a device for almost 3000 euros, which has such elementary mistakes. I used to recommend Apple countless times and many listened to me. Since approx. 2 years I no longer recommend Apple or only with severe restrictions. But with the size that WE have given Apple in the meantime, they laugh at people like me.

Too bad and very disappointing.

Now I have an unusable iPad for 3000 euros here and have to do my work with my old iPad.

Turning off the Accessibility > Zoom worked.

i was going crazy and thought my iPad or Apple Pencil Pro had issues.

Thanks for the tip!

I have the same issue, which is upsetting, as I got the iPad exclusively for digital art. The lag occurs for me in Procreate and Adobe Fresco. And, often during a drawing, the pencil stops working as a brush altogether, making no marks. After a while, it works again.

I took the M4 iPad Pro to the Apple Store and they tried it with one of their pencils. Same issues. So they concluded it was the iPad, not the Apple Pencil Pro. The gave me a replacement iPad. I just finished setting it up, and it too has the pencil lag.

Just got a replacement pencil pro… same issues, heading to the Apple Store Thursday, already know replacing the IPad M4 isn’t going to solve the issues either since some people already went through that ‘solution’ as well.

I think Apple has a problem with these new IPad Pro’s, not a happy camper.

Ps closing ‘zoom’ in accessibility made the IPad even lag while using my finger, turning it back on made the whole IPad go crazy, tired of rebooting

I am having the same issue in Procreate and in pretty much every app that uses the Pencil Pro. I have the M4 13 inch with Nano screen. Today is day 14 and am debating returning for a standard screen to see if that helps, but from what I am seeing this is an M4 13 inch problem in general. Anyone find a solution yet? 6/19/24

I don't use Procreate - I use GoodNotes and for other markups I use the PDF viewer built into Files App. Both apps work fine for a while, then both exhibit MASSIVE lagging when using the Pencil Pro now. I've had to resort to ~daily rebooting the iPad Pro (13") to fix the lagging when it reoccurs. I had previously enabled the zoom functionality, but when I disabled it the problem remains. I've rebooted again and let's see if the lag stays gone.

My Apple Pencil pro is lagging on everything… and it’s getting progressively worse, been through everything with apple support and there’s a replacement on the way, I think there might be an issue with the pencil’s software lagging on the Bluetooth connection

I bought iPad Pro 13 m4 with no reflective glass.

The only app that I cannot use with the Apple Pencil Pro is Procreate.

• Sometimes doesn't work - does not leave any mark
• Sometimes the mark deletes itself while drawing it (quite weird behaviour)
• When trying to use the app, there is always lagging

I tried what is suggested (turning off Zoom, rebooting, and resetting the app) - but no changes, the app is totally malfunctioning with the Pencil Pro.

I guess an update is needed.

Please let me know what else I can do to use the app

Ensure that you have updated your new iPad Pro M4 to iPadOS 17.5.

Consider that any Apps that may have been briefly showcased during Apple's recent event will have been using beta software - either by iPadOS, App, or both - and will have been carefully "staged" for the presentation.

Given that many Developers will not yet have had opportunity to test their Apps with the new iPad hardware and updated version of iPadOS, you might reasonably anticipate that many Apps will not yet be optimised for the new models of iPad.

I have exactly the same problem but with the new Ipad air and apple pencil pro. I tried forgetting device, turn off and on Ipad, delete and install procreate and it still has this lag and it is only on Procreate, while I am editing files everything is working just fine. I am just returning form the Apple reseller and they told me that the issue is on the procreate side and I don’t know what to think about all of this. A bit frustrated that I paid a quite amount for having such issue…