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Tsadop

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Oct 28, 2022
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Hi all! First post on the forum.

My wife just bought a new M1 iPad Pro 11" and an Apple Pencil gen 2. We cannot find how to get handwrite to text to work. There's not even an setting for scribble in settings and force restarting won't help.
Is this a known bug on 16.1 or is there something weird going on here?

Thanks!
 
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Apple Pencil is paired and works otherwise perfectly - just the Scribble setting won't show up.

Edit:
Ah, just noticed that Finnish language isn't supported and that's why it didn't show up.
All good, thanks for help JD2015!
 
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scribble to text only supports the following languages https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/07/apple-pencil-more-languages-scribble/

Norwegian is not supported.

Scribble or enable it via the Apple Pencil’s settings screen despite having the latest version of iPadOS installed, you might not have those languages added to the iPad’s keyboard.

Head over to Settings > General > Keyboards. Then, select Add New Keyboard and select any of the available English keyboards. If you want to use Scribble in Chinese, you must select a simplified or a traditional Chinese keyboard.

English in Keyboards

You can then start using Scribble immediately—you don’t need to have the English or Chinese keyboard actively selected on the onscreen keyboard.

If Scribble continues to fail to function, make sure that it’s enabled under Settings > Apple Pencil
 
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