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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by KennyBlanken on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:06PM (#36927045)
That redditor says it's just serial number matching, complains at length about how this issue is destroying their business while in the same breath saying that reprogramming the screen's serial number on a working unit will bring up the same problem.

So, if it's just a matching serial numbers problem, why aren't they programming the new screens with the serial number of the old screen, and thus the problem goes away?

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by dataflow on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:38PM (#36927268)
It's a reasonable question; I don't know the answer. It might require damaging the device too much to return it to the consumer at that point? Or maybe they can't due to contractual reasons? It might be worth asking them on Reddit.
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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by realusername on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:12AM (#36928367)
That's exactly what their "calibration" procedure on iPhone does, it just changes the serial number pairing, nothing else, you don't even have to touch on the screen.
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