iPad Pro Release: 5 Things the iOS 9 Update Reveals

iOS 9 is Ready for an iPad Pro Stylus

The iOS 9 update adds predictive touch to the system that can use information to predict where touch input may go next.

Cult of Mac reports that the signs of an iPad with a stylus are all over WWDC 2015, including the predictive touch. Leander Kahney writes, "Predictive touch technology is the key technology behind all styluses — both computer and iPad. Touchscreens and drawing tablets generally aren’t accurate enough for precision work unless they have predictive touch technology. Predictive touch dramatically improves the speed and accuracy of a pen."

Tim Ritchey works for Adonit, a company that already makes a Bluetooth stylus for the iPad. Ritchey told Cult of Mac that this technology and the drawing engine that powers a new Apple Notes app, "are the kinds of things you want in place if you were going to come out with a stylus."

Rumors of an iPad Pro with a stylus include a patent filing and a report from Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities. iPad Pro concept from Martin Hajek.