How to enable Apple Pencil on Designer/iPad

[afdojo]

I'm new to Designer on iPad and just spent two hours (unsuccessfully) trying to figure out how to draw a line with the Apple Pencil. I've searched the forum for every combo of "designer enable apple pencil ipad" and searched the Help '?' on my iPad and found nothing. Would someone please point me to the magic incantation that will "turn on" the Apple Pencil?

Thanks,

Doug

[DM1]

If you have affinity open, just plug your Apple pencil into the iPad for a few seconds. Select a pencil, pen or brush tool and draw away! If you don’t see anything just increase the line width in context menu or the stroke studio.

When using the pencil it’s a good idea to turn on Touch for Gestures only to avoid confusion when touching screen while drawing with the Apple Pencil.🙂

[DWright]

Once your Pencil is paired to your iPad Affinity Designer will automatically use it without the need to configure any settings, the only option we have is for controlling the double tap function on the Apple Pencil 2

[afdojo]

Thanks! I guess that explains why I couldn't find any help/forum info on how to 'enable' the Pencil for Affinity. I had, in fact, already 'paired' my Pencil with the iPad and tested it with several iPad apps so knew it was working. I know this doesn't make sense but I thought maybe I needed to pair the Pencil with the iPad every time I used it so plugged it in again. The iPad popped up a note asking if I wanted to enable Bluetooth to pair the Pencil. Oops. This is a little embarrassing but hopefully will help future newbies that stumble on this post but I had (for reasons I don't remember), disabled Bluetooth on the iPad. Bluetooth, of course, is how the Pencil communicates with the iPad. If I had gone back and retried the Pencil with, for example, the Notes app, I would have discovered that the Pencil wasn't working for any app. I enabled Bluetooth and, of course, the Pencil started working (with gestures!) with Designer. I suppose a drained Pencil battery would look the same. Neither of which has anything to do with Affinity. Thanks to @DM1 and @DWrightfor your help. Sorry for the bother. I assumed that since the Pencil worked with Notes a few days ago that the issue was with Affinity s/w.