Apple Pencil

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Apple Pencil, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Misconverts punctuation, foreign names and serial numbers, requiring slow manual corrections2023-07-16
Too many steps to start writing; palm rejection fails and zooms or marks the page2022-11-23
Tiny directional adapter needs trial orientation and gives no charging status indicator2019-04-19
Input latency makes pencil and touch feel laggy or janky, not real time2019-03-20
Charging requires a tiny cap or adapter, and charging while plugged into iPad makes the iPad unusable2019-03-18
Magnetic pen dock makes the stylus easy to bump off or forget2018-10-30
Handwritten notes render as spider-scrawl, making them unpleasant and difficult to read back2018-03-23
Pen lags on iPad and handwritten notes come out illegible2017-10-26