iPad 10 doesn’t support Apple Pencil 2. Here’s what’s in place of the magnetic coil

Thanks to iFixit we discover that the new iPad 10 presented a few months ago by Apple it does not have compatibility with the second generation Apple Pencil due to the impossibility of recharging the pen via the magnet on the frame. The reason? In fact, instead of the magnetic coil for recharging, Apple has placed the photographic sector for video calls, making it impossible to find space elsewhere. Opening the body of the tablet it was thus discovered that the arrangement of the hardware inside makes it impossible to exploit the newest capacitive pen.

iPad 10: here’s how it’s done internally

iFixitreleased his classic video where disassemble the new tenth generation iPad piece by pieceto check how repairable it is but also how it is done internally. Here then is the discovery: meanwhile there 7606mAh battery but above all it is possible to have its removal in a much simpler way with a system similar to that seen on the latest iPad Air and iPad mini. Stays for soldered the USB-C input to the motherboard as happened on other occasions.

However, what has led to the greatest curiosity concerns the discovery of the arrangement of the internal hardware components: the front camera for video calls has in fact been positioned on the long side, exactly where they usually find space on iPads compatible with the Apple Pencil 2wireless charging coils of the pen. So the mystery of the decision to make the first generation of the Apple Pencil compatible with the iPad 10 and not the second is solved. Although to tell the truth, perhaps in the place where the cam on the previous version had previously been positioned, one could have thought of inserting the coil for the Pencil 2 but it is clear that perhaps the question has taken a back seat.

Apple has never commented on the matter and only thanks to iFixit we were able to understand the reasons for this decision. In this case we recall that if Apple had used a second generation Pencil on the iPad 10 there would certainly have been a ”internal competition” with the latest iPad Air,which costs 200 euros more. In short, rightly marketing issues which in any case do not diminish iPad 10 which remains a better product than iPad 9 above all for its aesthetic aspect now similar to that of the other ”more expensive” but also for some hardware characteristics.