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| Even amongst Apple's own devices it is a mess. To charge an Apple Pencil with an iPad Pro you need not one, but two adapters.

I’m curious what you’re referring to. I charge my Apple Pencil while connected to my iPad, and my iPad chargers via usb c. No adapters for me?

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He's referring to the pencil v1, which had to be charged via lightning.

Oh I forgot they added wireless charging in V2. Yeah that part of my argument doesn't really make sense then.

They are referring to the original Apple Pencil which used a lightning port at the end.

Worse, the Pencil 1 didn't have a lightning port, it insanely had a lightning plug - it had to be charged precariously sticking out of the bottom of the iPad like this:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0276/6463/files/How-to-Cha...

Not entirely true. It came with a little female-female lightning adapter so you could charge it with whatever other lightning cable you have. The pencil end of the adapter is deeper than the other end, I think so you can't plug a lightning cable into each end.

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