
On iPhone, tap the coloured circle, then choose a preset colour at the bottom of the Colours screen.Or drag the slider to adjust the opacity.
To draw with a different stroke size or opacity, tap one of the drawing tools twice, then tap a new stroke size. Tap one of the four drawing tools at the bottom of the screen: the pen, pencil, crayon or the fill tool. Check which languages and regions Scribble supports. * You can change to another supported language in the toolbar if you've added the keyboard for the language in Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards. The toolbar also has buttons to indent, format and align text, as well as to insert page breaks, bookmarks and more. If you’re using your finger, swipe with two fingers. To scroll the page when using Apple Pencil, swipe with one finger. To show the whole toolbar, tap the minimised toolbar. To minimise the toolbar, drag it to the corner of the screen.
Drag the selection handles to change the selection.
To select text, circle it or draw a line through it. To join or separate characters, draw a vertical line between them. To insert text between words, tap and hold in a text area, then start writing when a space opens. Tap the Scribble tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then start writing.Īs you write with Apple Pencil, you can also delete words, insert text and more:. Or tap in a text box, shape or table cell. Tap Apple Pencil in the body of a word-processing document in Pages, a spreadsheet in Numbers or a slide in Keynote where you want to write. To check the status of the Scribble setting or to turn it off, go to Settings > Apple Pencil on your iPad. With Scribble, you can turn handwriting into text with an Apple Pencil on a supported iPad.* When you pair an Apple Pencil with an iPad, Scribble is on by default.