The next update for Apple Watch will bring a feature that many of us have been waiting for: the QWERTY keyboard available in Spanishuntil now reserved exclusively for English.
The update for Apple Watch that will arrive this fall has focused on connectivity, as Apple itself acknowledged during the presentation, and to the improvements of Messages we must add a novelty that many of us had been waiting for months. Apple introduced with the Apple Watch Series 7 a full QWERTY keyboard. It seemed a bit ridiculous to have a full keyboard on such a small screen, but Apple promised the typing experience was exceptional. However, all of us who wrote in a language other than English couldn’t use the keyboard, so we had to wait.
Well, the wait already has an end date, because this fall, when watchOS 9 arrives from the hand of iOS 16, we will already have this QWERTY keyboard available. And those of us who are testing the watchOS 9 Beta can already try it out, and I must admit that I was very pleasantly surprised by the typing experience on such a small keyboard. You can type by tapping key by key, or by swiping across the screen, like on the iPhone keyboard. And while key feel accuracy isn’t the same as on the iPhone, the autocorrect system works very well “guessing” in most cases what you meant to write. You can also quickly choose words to correct them, and the keyboard gives you suggestions, just like the keyboard on iPhones that include emojis.
It’s hard to believe that such a small screen can accommodate so many keys and options, and moreover, that we can choose them precisely, but the reality is that everything works surprisingly well. Remember that in addition to the full keyboard, you can use dictationa faster function that also works very well.
