Ngenkathi i-Apple yethula ngokusemthethweni i-Apple Pencil, abasebenzisi abaningi bakhumbula amagama kaSteve Jobs lapho ethula i-iPhone, amagama asho lawo ukuthi usiba lwaluyinto yesikhathi esedlule (ukukubeka ngamagama amnandi). Ngokushesha, abaningi bekungabasebenzisi abakuqinisekisile ukuthi i-Apple Pencil ayihlangene ngalunye nosiba lwendabuko, kokuthile ababeqinisile impela ngoba ipeni lendabuko alizange lisinike amaphuzu wokucindezela ahlukahlukene ukuze sikwazi ukwenza noma yimuphi umsebenzi odinga okuphezulu ukucacisa., kepha kusivumele kuphela ukuthi sichofoze kokukhethwa kukho okuncane esinikezwe yiWindows Mobile kuma-PDA.
Eminyakeni embalwa ngemuva kwesethulo sayo esisemthethweni njengesisekeli se-iPad Pro, abafana baseCupertino basanda kuthola ukubhaliswa kwelungelo lobunikazi lapho singabona khona ukuthi le divayisi ingangena ku-iPhone. Le patent, okuyinombolo 9.658.704 inesihloko esithi "Amadivayisi nezindlela zokusebenzisa i-interface yomsebenzisi ngosiba" ichaza i-Apple Pencil njengokwesekwa kwamadivayisi we-elekthronikhi anesikrini sokuthinta esinenzwa eyodwa noma ngaphezulu ukuthola izimpawu zesitebele.
Leli patent libuye lichaze ukusetshenziswa kohlamvu lokuloba, ngamadivayisi wokuxhumana aphathekayo njenge-iPhone, i-iPod touch, ne-iPad ukusebenzisa ubuchwepheshe obucatshangelwayo bokuzwa bobabili okwamanje obusetshenziswa amadivayisi weselula we-Apple Ngaphezu kwalokho, umbhalo welungelo lobunikazi ukhombisa ngokuqinile ukuthi isitayela se-Apple esizayo singasebenza nezinye izinhlobo zezinhlelo zokusebenza ezinjengama-processor wamagama, amaspredishithi, imidlalo, ukuphequlula i-inthanethi, ukuhlela isithombe, ama-imeyili….
I-stylus esetshenziswe kudivayisi efana ne-iPhone iboniswa ngokusobala komunye wemidwebo ye-patent efakiwe. Leli patent yethulwa ngoSepthemba 2015, namagama onjiniyela be-Apple uJeffrey Traer Bernstein, uLinda L. Dong, uMark K. Hauestein noJulian Missig njengabasunguli bayo. Ukuba yi-patent lokhu akusho ukuthi ekugcineni i-Apple izokwethula ipeni le-iPhone, kepha okungenani kubonakala sengathi lo mbono usuvele undiza ngezingqondo zabafana baseCupertino.