watchOS 9 has added yet another feature that could have gone missing for those Apple Watch Series 6 or older users. Starting with this upcoming operating system, Apple Watch Series 7 users will be able to use QuickType, a famous iOS 8 feature.
As spotted by graphic designer Brahm Shank, QuickType will be available for Apple Watch Series 7 users with watchOS 9. If you don’t recall what this feature is, here’s how it works:
QuickType is a predictive text engine, which suggests words and phrases that are right for your language. In other words, it will try to save you time when you’re writing a message on your Apple Watch running watchOS 9.
QuickType arrives by the time Apple is expanding the QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch Series 7 to additional languages thanks to watchOS 9. This means QuickType will also be available to the following speakers:
- French,
- German,
- Italian,
- Japanese,
- Portuguese (Brazil),
- Spanish (Mexico, Spain, Latin America).
By the time Apple unveiled Apple Watch Series 7, six months before previewing watchOS 9, an executive explained why having a bigger display was such a big deal. Here’s what Apple’s Alan Dye said last year:
“Since the first Apple Watch, text input has been critical and a huge challenge,” Dye said. “We always wanted a QWERTY keyboard and this new display enabled that and enabled it in a way that we think we could deliver the feature in incredibly usable and powerful way. Designing the new keyboard was really quite a challenge. So, we made some important decisions. One thing we did was we removed the bezels from the keys, those little outlines to help make it feel a little less cramped. And to imply that precision isn’t critical with your taps because of the intelligence behind the keyboard.
With this iOS 8 feature, watchOS 9 surely will look a bit easier for those who need to type an answer on the Apple Watch.
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