Pages User Guide for iPad
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Use Apple Pencil with Pages on iPad
You can use your Apple Pencil in Pages on iPad to create drawings, annotate documents, and select and scroll as you would with your finger. By default, when you use Apple Pencil, you enter a view to draw or annotate. If you want to use Apple Pencil for scrolling and selecting objects instead, you can change its default setting.
Change the default Apple Pencil behavior for Pages
The default setting applies only to Pages. If you change the setting in one document, it applies to all Pages documents but doesn’t affect other applications, such as Keynote and Numbers.
Open a Pages document, then tap
.Tap Apple Pencil (scroll down to see it), then turn on Select and Scroll.
If your Apple Pencil supports it, you can turn on Double-Tap to Switch, then double-tap the lower part of Apple Pencil to turn Select and Scroll on and off.
If you change the default setting to Select and Scroll, you can still use Apple Pencil to draw or annotate in Pages. To draw, tap 
, tap 
, then tap Drawing. To annotate, tap , then tap Smart Annotation.