How to charge your first generation Apple Pencil

The redesigned 10.9-inch iPad has a USB-C port that will not charge the Apple Pencil without an adapter. Yet there are other ways to charge the Apple Pencil that might be more convenient.This isn't the first time that the Apple Pencil has required some kind of an adapter. Right from the start when it was introduced in 2015, Apple included a small adapter that would allow you to connect a Lightning cable to the Pencil for charging.It still does, at least with the first-generation Apple Pencil. So you can still use that, if you have a Lightning cable, and the new adapter may be $9 for existing owners, but that's cheaper and easier than buying a new Apple Pencil and a new iPad to use it with. Read more...