In his first appearance at the beginning of series nine of Doctor Who, the Doctor is seen wearing black Ray-Ban sunglasses (" The Magician's Apprentice"), and he says that he no longer has his sonic screwdriver. In the 1979 serial City of Death, Count Scarlioni's henchmen use a "sonic knife" to cut the glass in front of the Mona Lisa. After crash-landing in Sheffield with no TARDIS, a body that was still cooking, and two alien mysteries to solve, the Doctor realised she was missing something – her sonic screwdriver. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

A redesigned sonic screwdriver appears in the new series, with a blue light in addition to the sound effect. The glasses appear to be more susceptible to damage than the screwdriver; in " The Girl Who Died", a Viking warrior takes the glasses off the Doctor's face and easily breaks them in half. After much provocation, the teacher uses the sonic screwdriver to transform Lauren into a Rose Tyler action figure. In the series 6 episode " The Girl Who Waited", future Amy Pond has a "Sonic Probe" that she made herself.Sophisticated and elegant this Doctor was more of a pure scientist than his predecessors, surrounded by gadgets and vehicles.

The sonic pen took the form of a sleek, black and silver fountain pen with a blue light at the top and was made into a toy version which was paired with the sonic screwdriver. But whether aiding UNIT against invasion or travelling to distant planets his kindness and belief in peace was rarely stronger.

The new screwdriver has seen use in the spin-off show Class, where the Doctor increases the voltage of flood lights to expel the Shadow Kin and partially close a rift in space-time.