Setup: iPad Pro M4 + Apple Pencil Pro set to select eraser when squeezed & auto-deselect when released
How to replicate: [Only inside pdf’s, not in the mind map!!!] When squeezing to erase, if released (stopped squeezing) while the pencil is still registered as touching the screen, the tool menu (the one that you get by clicking on a tool to change color, or size or other attributes) appears.
This is not happening every single time, so I think there is a bit more to it, but if you just write with the pen in a pdf, then squeeze to erase, actually erase a few lines and release the squeeze before you lifter the pencil from the screen, the menu pops-up.
I think nobody actually wants to trigger tat menu with this “gesture” so I’m pretty sure it’s a bug.
Regardless, it is annoying for two big reasons:
- It is not 100% consistent, so it’s very hard to form any sort of muscle memory.
- Most importantly, the iPad’s screen is not 100% precise on if the pencil really touches it or not (especially if you have Hover on in your settings). This is mildly annoying when you know you lifted your pencil a mm or two before the screen stopped recognizing the stroke, but in this case, I keep releasing the squeeze once I feel the pencil is not touching the screen, but since that is not very precise, it still triggers the menu to pop-up.
On short, please just fix this “stop squeezing while touching the screen to pop-up the menu” bug.
Edit: I added a video where this occurs. You can see it’s inconsistent, so I’m sorry I can’t really tell you exactly what triggers it.