From the course: iOS 18: iPhone and iPad Essential Training

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Use Scribble on iPadOS

Use Scribble on iPadOS

If you have an Apple Pencil, you have yet another way to enter text and other content into documents on your iPad using a feature called Scribble. Scribble lets you create an input content almost entirely with pencil without having to use the onscreen keyboard. So you can write by hand in any text fields in your web browser, to messages, to calendar, to mail, and so on. As I record this video, Scribble works on iPads running in many different languages, including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. First, go into Settings, to Apple Pencil, and make sure that Scribble is enabled, which it should be by default. So, for example, I'll open up the Safari web browser and I'll tap in the address field with my Apple Pencil. Notice the onscreen keyboard doesn't show up because the iPad knows I'm using the pencil. And now I can just handwrite the address or search term I'm looking for in the address bar. Notice it…

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