Scribble in a different language

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Scribble in a different language

I've updated my Apple Watch to watchOS 3, and, to my surprise, I've seen that scribble to respond to messages is not available. My watch is set in Italian and googling I've seen that I should set the language in English. That's a pain in the *** (excuse me, I've translated what I wanted to say with google translator and it seems that that translation is a bit rude but I don't know other word to say that).

Is there any other way to have scribble in languages different from english (where letters are almost the same as italian, except accented) or chinese (we have all seen chinese working during the keynote)?

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Sep 15, 2016 12:43 AM

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Jonathan UK

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Sep 15, 2016 6:29 AM in response to valter sgt

Hi

To use Scribble, the language for a conversation needs to be a supported language for Scribble.

There are currently English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

More information:

Scribble on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

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valter sgt Author

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Sep 15, 2016 6:33 AM in response to Jonathan UK

I see. Thanks a lot for your answer.

Anyway, I don't see the reason why I should use only english to draw letters that are the same in tens other languages.

An A is an A even in german, french, italian, spanish... I can understand the app doesn't recognise a ç or an è but there are a few workaround for them.

Hope Scribble will be updated soon.

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Oct 28, 2016 3:20 PM in response to valter sgt

You can use the "scribble" feature to write Italian messages with a little "trick"!

In your iPhone you need to add the English keyboard, then when you're editing a message in the iWatch firmly press on the screen and choose the globe icon to change the input language: switch from Italian to English and now you can see the scribble feature.

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Jonathan UK

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Sep 15, 2016 6:38 AM in response to valter sgt

You're welcome! 🙂

valter sgt wrote:

.. Hope Scribble will be updated soon.

You can submit feature requests to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html

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