hi this is gary with macmost.com today
let's look at using the new scribble
feature
on ipad os 14.
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so a new feature in ipad os 14 is the
ability to use your apple pencil
and write instead of type and the great
thing about this is it works virtually
anywhere that you would type so not just
when you're writing a large piece of
text or in the notes app it'll work in
browser fields it'll work when you're
composing email
just about anywhere so as an example
let's start with mail someplace you
might normally need to write
so go into mail and here's a new message
now you would expect that this would
work in the body of the message so i can
write that out but it also works in the
to
field
so you can see a few things there first
it'll work anywhere like i said
second it will translate the letters you
write into text
and third i've got atrocious handwriting
so now let's write out a subject
and then we can continue to write
something in the body
so it's doing a lot of different things
there one of the things it's doing is
it's not just looking at the letters
that you're writing
but in the context of all the other
letters to form
a word that is spelled correctly and
also at the words around it to maybe
guess what the word is so with my bad
handwriting
it's looking at a lot of those words
around it to figure out exactly what
word i'm trying to scratch out
now i can look at the controls here at
the bottom of the screen to see even
more things
you've got controls that you would
normally see at the top of the keyboard
but down here at the bottom you even
have an undo button there and redo on
the left
and you can bring up a little keyboard
there to actually tap things out with
the pencil as well
this is useful when you need to type
special characters and things like that
you also have the ability to tap the
three dots here and jump to pencil
settings
and also turn on something called auto
minimize now auto minimize will
automatically take these controls and
put them into a little button
you could do it manually by using your
finger and dragging the little line at
the top
you could drag it into the corner there
you could also drag it back out
or simply if it's in the corner tap it
and it will come back out
you could also drag and put this on the
side
or on the other side you just got to
drag that little line that's a handle
to do one of those things now of course
you can use this in word processing apps
like for instance in
pages
so you can see how it converts that to
text now there are a few special
commands that you can do with the apple
pencil
for instance if you want to select
things you can just draw a line through
them so i could draw a line through all
of this
and you can see how it selects them you
could also circle something
to select it which is a lot easier if
you've got more than one line of stuff
to select
if you select something and then right
near it
you can replace something so you can see
it made a mistake here there's one word
that's wrong
so let me select it and then i'll write
the correction also you could draw a
vertical line to combine two words or
separate them so for instance if i
wanted to combine these two words
i could do it like that and if i wanted
to separate them
i use the same thing and if you want to
delete something
you simply just scribble it out
now there's some extra functionality in
notes so let's go into notes here now we
can use scribble just like before but
you could also draw in notes so notice
at the bottom we have all these controls
for drawing
and the first pen here has the letter a
in it that's the scribble pen so when i
have that selected
it will translate what i write into text
but if i switch to a regular pen then
when i write it won't translate into
text but it still does a little more
than just allowing you to draw
let me show you
okay so it looks like a regular drawing
but it
actually knows what you've written so
for instance if i go back out to my
notes here
and i do a search
you can see it finds that note it finds
that word in there
even though it's written out in a
drawing
and not regular text if i were to tap on
this
i can select it and you can see it
selects the writing that's there
i can tap on it again and i can do a
bunch of different things one of the
things i can do is copy as text
so if i copy as text and then i go to
another app say
i can paste it in i'll just paste it
here in notes you can see
it knows what i wrote even though it
left it there as a regular drawing
so if you have better handwriting than
me you could write out your notes
leave it in your own handwriting and
know you could still copy it and paste
it
as regular text now one important thing
to note is there are two requirements
for using scribble the first of course
is you need to have the latest version
of ipad os
this is a new feature of ipad os 14 so
you have to have that
the second of course is you have to have
an apple pencil so older ipads of course
don't support the apple pencil
and you can't just use any old stylus
the apple pencil is a special thing it
communicates
in a special way with the ipad so it
only works if you've got
the original apple pencil which i've got
or the second generation one they sell
now
so and finally as i mentioned you can
use this anywhere so for instance if i
wanted to
search on a website and there's a search
field at the top i could certainly write
in it instead of
actually typing or if there's a form you
need to fill out you can use this to
fill out the form
so i don't think this for everyone for
someone like me i'm more comfortable
typing on the screen of course
but there's still a lot of people that
do enjoy writing and the apple pencil
with ipad certainly has a very superior
feel if you only ever used a regular
stylus
on a regular touch screen then you're
not really getting how the apple pencil
feels when you write it feels like it's
a big step closer to actually
writing or drawing on paper so once
you've upgraded ipad os 14 check this
out
if you've got an apple pencil
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