Apple Pencil interactions

Overview

Apple Pencil interactions let a person perform certain actions in your app by double-tapping or squeezing an Apple Pencil. Support Apple Pencil interactions to give people a quick way to perform their preferred action, such as switching between drawing tools, or a custom action that you define in your app.

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• To learn more about supporting double-tap and squeeze interactions, read Handling double taps from Apple Pencil and Handling squeezes from Apple Pencil.

• To learn more about handling touches, read Handling input from Apple Pencil.

• To learn more about incorporating hand-drawn content in your app, see Drawing with PencilKit.

Topics

Essentials

• Handling double taps from Apple Pencil
• Handling squeezes from Apple Pencil
• Handling input from Apple Pencil

Apple Pencil interactions in SwiftUI

• onPencilDoubleTap(perform:)
• PencilDoubleTapGestureValue
• onPencilSqueeze(perform:)
• PencilSqueezeGesturePhase
• PencilSqueezeGestureValue
• PencilPreferredAction
• PencilHoverPose

Apple Pencil interactions in UIKit

• UIPencilInteraction
• UIPencilInteractionDelegate
• UIPencilInteraction.Tap
• UIPencilInteraction.Squeeze
• UIPencilInteraction.Phase
• UIPencilHoverPose

See Also

User interactions

• Touches, presses, and gestures
• Menus and shortcuts
• Drag and drop
• Pointer interactions
• Focus-based navigation
• Accessibility for UIKit