iPadOS 16 Adds Handwriting Straightening Feature to Make Your Writing Neater

[laszlo182]

it does already make your handwriting a bit nicer right? no way i write like that

 

[44267547]

It’s the simple things.

By making this handwriting more personal, and ‘true-to-form’, only creates more diversity for the Apple Pencil to be more desirable as an accessory to the iPad.

[Now, only if we could get Apple to convert a mini Apple Pencil accessory to the iPhone, that would be clutch.]

 

[kc9hzn]

Now if it could only straighten each line, not just the edge where the text starts, automatically kern my handwriting and dot my i's and cross my t's then we'd be in business.

Also it's almost impossible in current macOS to write i's with multiple words after it. Try it, the auto correct will eat it forever. I had to copy and paste things. Even right clicking on it to change it back inserted it into the I'd it was trying to replace it with, like this: Ii's'd

I hate Apple's software sometimes. I swear my iPad Pro virtual keyboard was losing it's mind the other day putting in all kinds of junk letters. I think someone somewhere is typing loads of garbage into Apple devices to screw up their aggregate machine learning. Probably the general dumbing down of society is to blame.

Let’s try something like i forgot to turn off the light. It’s a fun story

Well, the random gibberish didn’t cause any problems, the i stayed lower case even as I wrote other words. It’s not like home screen, which iOS keeps on trying to capitalize. The tricky thing is probably punctuation right after the i, but that didn’t do it, either. (I do think there’s an issue with punctuation right after declining an autocorrect suggestion, though.) Seems to be a quirk with the AI, probably a quirk with the autocorrect learning model on your specific phone. If it’s a huge problem, you can always reset the keyboard dictionary in your phone’s settings app.

 

[lazyrighteye]

All three of the lines also rotate very slightly

Correct. Very slightly.

It struck me as interesting that of all the adjustment opportunity, the main adjustment was left-justify. Sure, the lines rotated ever so slightly. But the arch or bow in each line remain unaffected. Overall an interesting thing to tackle with software. All for it.

 

[VulchR]

I can just see the iPad's response to trying to straighten my horrible handwriting: 'Dude, WTF?'

 

[mrr]

Please bring Apple Pencil support to the iPhone.

 

[CarAnalogy]

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[CarAnalogy]

Can it go back in time and teach me how to write legibly instead of typing 100 WPM?

Wait, scratch that. I think I’m better off with the typing.

 

[hagar]

Scribble, one of those features that will take at least half a decade to come to all major languages in the world.

 

[biracialfamily91]

My handwriting is very neat with paper but on the iPad its like all over the place. So maybe this could help.

 

[B4U]

Great, now we can finally read the prescriptions.

 

[LeeW]

Developers all over the world would pay for this to fix my handwritten notes before they need to decipher them.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

If they can turn my handwriting, which looks like it was written by a drunk doctor, into something legible and neat, and yet still with the character of my writing, then I will finally know that "AI" has arrived.

 

[The Mad Kiwi]

It'll take a lot more than that to tidy up my scrawl that is also sometimes referred to as handwriting.

 

[LiveM]

I really can't see a difference between those two images?

It hasn’t straightened anything; it has only justified the block against the left margin.

 

[everlast3434]

My handwriting is just awful. If this can convert it to be more legible, it’ll definitely be useful.

 

[svish]

Good feature. But cannot distinguish much between the two images. Scribble supporting Emoji is also nice.

 

[me22]

It does look a bit better, but seems to ignore the overall curve of the lines, which would be the thing I'd want it to deal with. A straight baseline is most important to me.

Adjusting the size of the text to be consistent would be cool too.

 

[kc9hzn]

It does look a bit better, but seems to ignore the overall curve of the lines, which would be the thing I'd want it to deal with. A straight baseline is most important to me.

Adjusting the size of the text to be consistent would be cool too.

Alas, that’s the more difficult part. Adjusting the curves of your writing without dramatically changing the character of your writing, straightening it out while preserving the details that makes it clear your writing is your writing.

 

[mw360]

Correct. Very slightly.

It struck me as interesting that of all the adjustment opportunity, the main adjustment was left-justify. Sure, the lines rotated ever so slightly. But the arch or bow in each line remain unaffected. Overall an interesting thing to tackle with software. All for it.

But ‘ever so slightly’ is exactly the correct way to rotate those lines, so it seems odd to dismiss it for being only slight.

 

[lazyrighteye]

But ‘ever so slightly’ is exactly the correct way to rotate those lines, so it seems odd to dismiss it for being only slight.

Not dismissed. Just found the rotation of the full line much less the opportunity to address than the more drastic archs and dips of each line. That’s all.