Comment by ohgr
10 months ago
I would disagree with the conclusion. It sounds like a faulty line of hardware on the M2 Air then.
My partner is the IT manager at a school where they have over 1000 iPads (10th gen) deployed with iOS 18 and there are no reported issues like this. We ourselves have iPad Pro M2's without these issues which we both use all day every day. Our kids have 3x 10th gen iPads too. No issues.
YMMV but they just work for us and the software, which not perfect, is probably the least shit out there.
I mean the trash heap in my office is mostly Surface machines as a comparison...
It is a software issue, I also have the same issue on my M2 pro.
The issue is, that each new line you draw, gets added to a group. This will start causing lagging at some point of time.
If I highlight my whole screen in Notes or Freeform and use the `separate` tool to remove all things from the group. The lagging immediately stops. You can read more about this here [1].
Apple has many issues with “scalability” like this. Another one for instance is the imessage and its replies. If you use them too much (50 replies to message or more) it start not rendering some of the messages.
This suggests a type of culture, where things are important to look nice in demos, but are not actually usable daily.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/zqh5rt/ipad_glitching...
But are they using mentioned pencils?
iPad 10th Gen doesn't even support the Apple Pencil Pro. Are they using any Apple Pencils at all?
Correct. Which is the point. The user complains that the problem is a software crisis when the software is fine on completely different hardware. That would suggest by elimination it's not a software problem, or is a software problem tied to particular hardware.
(incidentally they mostly use USB-C apple pencils and some clone ones when they lose them and the parents don't want to buy a genuine replacement one)
It is a software problem when a pen is used; you aren't using a pen so it doesn't impact you.
I don't understand why you thought it was constructive to point out the difference between a "software problem Vs. a software problem only when the pen is used." The article was very clear on that point already, it isn't adding to the conversation.