Using Handwriting

[Alameda]

I have an iPad Pro 4th Gen and I bought a 3rd party pen.

The handwriting recognition works remarkably well, but I can’t use it because the device seems to continually lose focus between hand writing recognition and editing. For instance, ultra-basic tasks like replacing one letter with another are ultra-difficult. Setting the text cursor input is nearly impossible. “Hey, I’m Apple, and I’ll just put your text wherever I want, ok?”

For example, let’s say I wrote three sentences and I want to mark text in the second sentence and remove or replace it… it’s nearly impossible to do! It’s maddeningly frustrating.

Maybe it’s difficult to explain, but it seems as though Apple got the hard thing right and the easy part very badly wrong. Every time I try it, I try to convince myself that it’s my fault, and I just need to figure out how to use it correctly. But in the end, I can never write a properly formatted paragraph of English. Like it’ll be working really well, and then it’s… a disaster.

Is this my fault, or my pen’s fault, or is iPad just not a usable handwriting recognition platform?

 

[01cowherd]

If you referring to Scribble (converting handwriting into text): it’s not you. Editing anything with it is ridiculously difficult. I only use it occasionally for very short bursts (a few words, maybe a sentence), like writing a search query if I happen to have the stylus out. It’s much faster to tap and select to fix something. It also has a fairly aggressive autocorrect built in, which is annoying because sometimes I’ll write an uncommon word or something not in the dictionary and it will “correct” it to something else, regardless of how clearly I write—with no option to use what I actually wrote.