Agreed! That is primarily how I use the pencil tool: draw a line and keep it selected while redrawing some or all of it. Editing a pencil line only by manipulating anchor points and handles feels redundant to the functions of the pen tool, and doesn’t give you that immediacy of live drawing and editing. @jess thanks for the workaround... I’m going to give that a try in the meantime!

Yes! I primarily use the pencil tool in illustrator for drawing (on my desktop). I was disappointed that the pencil tool in the iPad version didn't work the same. I usually draw with it and then use it to adjust points by drawing over them (on the iPad it deselects the line immediately and I can't change it).

@anonym You must be new here. Just check the feature updates of Adobe software over the last 10 years. It takes them 1 year for a tiny useful feature and for 3 extra features no one asked for, but are simple to implement. You will need to wait one year until one new product owner accidentally finds this page, asks a obvious question about the feature and then disappears for another 2 years.

Is there already something of an update planned for this? Right now it feels no ones looking at it.

Also a paint brush tool that exactly behaves like the desktop version.

A workaround for this (IMO), that I've been using the past couple months is to use the Blob Brush tool with the smoothing increased. I use this for my signature and when I need some precise smaller details. Hope this helps while the developers make this happen!

Exactly this. Shouldve been there already imo. I want to brush along the lines i created in order to correct them where i see fit.

All we need is a Pencil Tool that behaves exactly like the desktop version.