Math Notes on an iPad
In a brand new interview, Apple’s Jenny Chen and Ty Jordan have revealed how each the brand new Math Notes and Good Script for iPadOS 18 have their roots in years of Apple expertise.
Math Notes is the brand new function the place iPadOS 18 won’t solely acknowledge a handwritten sum or equation, however it’s going to resolve it — and resolve it within the person’s personal handwriting. Then with Good Script, your precise handwriting will get smoothed out intelligently, in order that it preserves what makes your writing yours, but additionally makes it extra legible.
In a brand new YouTube interview, engineering supervisor Jenny Chan, and product supervisor Ty Jordan, say that these options are the fruits of what else Apple has been engaged on for a very long time.
“So this actually builds on a lot of the technology that we’ve been building over many years,” mentioned Chen. “So with Scribble [handwriting recognition], we spent a lot of time actually working on recognizing [text]… but, basically, we were able to recognize your handwriting, turn it into typed text.”
“And so I feel like [Math Notes is] just taking the technology from Scribble and taking it to the next level of not only recognizing, but being able to also synthesize text that’s actually similar to your handwriting,” she continued.
Ty Jordan mentioned that the flexibility to acknowledge textual content after which emulate it additionally gave Apple the flexibility to control handwriting and provides it a few of the options of typewritten textual content.
“So if you tap and hold your pencil, it can just move words around and you’ll see that reflows in your paragraph so you can get some more space,” he mentioned. “You can even just paste typed text as your own handwritten text right in the middle of a paragraph.”
“So a lot of the things that we take for granted with typed text,” he continued, “you can now do with hand text, which is really cool.”
Math Notes and Good Script are a part of iPadOS 18, which will likely be formally launched within the fall. A public beta has simply been launched, and Apple is now a number of rounds into beta testing with builders.