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What's going on everybody, Ian here for Cult of Mac and whether you're new to the Apple
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Watch or you've been wearing one for a long time, learning how to send messages or write
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on the Apple Watch can be a huge pain. It's not like a normal iPhone where you can type out on a keyboard and if you're not used
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to the methods of input on an Apple Watch, both by voice or by touch, it can be really confusing
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So these are a couple of different ways to type an iMessage or send text on an Apple Watch
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First and foremost, the most direct way to send a message or write on the Apple Watch
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is with your voice. You can simply tap the little microphone icon both in Mail or Messages or any other app
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that supports writing text and start speaking. The Apple Watch then will take your dictation and transcribe that into text, allowing you
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to speak whatever it is the message is and have it turned into text to send in your email
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or text message. The second way to write messages on your Apple Watch and one of my favorite ways to write
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messages on the Apple Watch is with the scribble feature. Scribble is indicated by the little finger touching a screen icon and from there, it'll
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bring up a little grid that you can physically write on with your finger, similar to the
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way the Newton and old Palm Pilots used to work with their styluses
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Simply take your finger and just start drawing letters on that screen and it will transpose
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those letters you're drawing into actual text. From there, you can write out your message, add punctuation, again, just scribbling it
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on the screen for question marks or periods or whatever, and add spaces as needed or backspace
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if you need to remove something with those little on-screen keys. Now one thing that is worth keeping in mind with scribble is you don't have to wait for
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each letter to disappear before you write the next one. This is what makes scribble really, really great
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You can actually continue to write each letter right on top of the letter that was already
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there and the Apple Watch is smart enough that almost every single time, it will get
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it perfect and understand a new letter has started or this letter is different than that
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or this is part of this and know exactly how to handle it
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You can also save a ton of time if you get the digital crown involved in scribbling out messages
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So basically, as you're writing your word and the word starts to show up, you'll see a little up and down arrow up at the top of the screen where the word is actually being written
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If you turn the digital crown, that'll actually scroll through a list of auto-complete words
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based on what you've started to write. This makes it really quick to write out a long word and only a few characters right
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on your wrist, meaning you don't have to spend as much time writing out your message
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and you can still get the point across quickly. Scribble can save you tons of time and awkwardness by being able to send messages quickly from
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your wrist. If you're ever in a situation where you need to send a message and Siri isn't an option
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or dictation isn't an option, try out Scribble. It's really fun to play with and as you get the hang of it, it becomes something that
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you really enjoy doing. I use it all the time for sending messages on my watch, which is one of my most common
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uses for the watch in general. Let me know what you guys think of the video in the comments down below
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Give it a thumbs up if you've never tried Scribble and you're excited to give it a shot
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or if you've tried Scribble and really enjoy it. Be sure to subscribe to the channel as we're going to do more of these Apple Watch tips
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and tricks over the next coming months. I'm Andru Edsburg for Cult of Mac. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next one
