They had to spend 15 years for WhatsApp finally reaching the iPad and, surprisingly, I don't use it as I imagined. I don't have a physical keyboard on my iPad, so I always use the one on the screen.
What is funny is that an afternoon in which I did not have the iPhone nearby, I wanted to answer WhatsApp. By inertia, I did it with the apple pencil and at the end I realized that I wrote it faster and with fewer errors What when you use the touch keyboard on the screen. And, since then, every time I have been with the iPad, I respond to messages.
If you didn't have it, already download WhatsApp to your iPad
WhatsApp can be downloaded normally from the App Store. And no, it is not a third part application that emulates a web version, or something similar. It's a Complete the application and adapted to the iPad screen This will be fed by the data that proportionate the iPhone.
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With WhatsApp for iPad, you can synchronize all your cats on your tablet. Send private messages, make telephone calls and share files with your friends, family and colleagues.
Once you have the application, you must Connect to scan a code of your iPhonevia WhatsApp's parameters. You will be asked to approve the device, then you have to wait a few seconds for cats to synchronize.
Otherwise, The operation is identical On the mobile, even activate notifications. Of course, it has a different addition and it is at the center of this article: enjoy the Apple pencil.
You must activate writing with a pencil in the iPad
Since the launch of the handwritten writing function (scribble), Any apple pencil is compatibleAs long as you have installed at least iPados 14 or any later installed version. Taking into account this and which iPad allow you to use an Apple pencil, it is the models that support it:
- IPAD (6th generation – 2018) and subsequent models.
- iPad Mini (5th generation – 2019) and subsequent models.
- IPad Air (4th generation – 2020) and subsequent models.
- iPad Pro (any model).
If you have the Apple compatibility and pencil, you will only have to make sure the option is activated:
- Open Parameters On the iPad.
- Go to the section of Apple pencil.
- Make sure the option Write It is activated and in your language.
The latter is important If you write in several languagesSince the iPad will only detect what you write in the languages you have configured. You can add more Parameters > General > Language and region > Add the tongue.
And write as if it were a notebook
Once you have it, writing with the Apple pencil on WhatsApp will be as simple as Open the cat and start writing by hand in the text box demand. You must literally write in the same way you do in a notebook with a pen and you will see that it is automatically transformed into a digital text.
There is no need to have excellent calligraphy. It is advisable to write readable letters, because sometimes it can be confused, although with the context, it is able to represent the correct word. In addition, if you have the activated self-body, even other faults will be added.
If you want Delete a word or a sentenceJust make a stud in it. It is not even necessary that it is a complete stallion, because with two shelves sufficiently (with one, the text is selected).
My advice at this stage is Do not tighten too much. I am a lot to write by hand on paper and I recognize that I used to send WhatsApp by hand messages that sometimes I forget that it is a screen. So if you don't want to (we want) to load the iPad screen, don't get emotions too.
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