The part of the first Apple Pencil that became a Lightning connector, was at one point under consideration to host a screen showing statuses such as whether the stylus would paint or draw a line — and future ones may yet adopt this.Originally the end of the Apple Pencil was to have a screen — and future ones may yet.A newly-revealed patent for the Apple Pencil includes details going back to 2013 where designs featured a screen that would automatically update to reflect what the stylus would do in use. If the user had tapped on an iPad screen to select, say, the paintbrush tool in an app, the screen would show "a graphic corresponding to a paint brush output."Read more
