After you are done, press the “Convert” button in the center of the screen. From there, you can draw or write with your finger or Apple Pencil.

To do so, open the OneNote app, pick the notebook and section you want to work in and then select the Draw tab. You can download OneNote for iOS from the Apple AppStore.Yes, you can convert handwriting to text in OneNote on iPad. This month, it adds a switch in Settings so you can turn off Page Previews if you’d rather not take up the space. Microsoft added support for Page Previews in landscape mode in an August update. OneNote has been updated with improved support for Arabic and Hebrew so that the UI-and not just your notes-are displayed right-to-left. Improvements for right-to-left languages. The OneNote page list can now be moved to the right side of the screen for you lefties. OneNote now supports the Apple Pencil, which will ship with (and require) iPad Pro, due in November. OneNote now supports Spotlight search, so you can search for your notes, as well as images, PDFs, and handwriting in your notes, directly from the iOS 9 search experience.Īpple Pencil support. (This feature also requires iPad Air 2 or iPad Pro.)

This related iOS 9 feature lets you open OneNote (or another app) on top of another app so you can take a quick note without interrupting what you’re doing. As Microsoft notes-and as Windows 8 users have know since 2012, this makes it easy “to take notes while watching a lecture, reviewing slides or reading a paper for class.” With iOS 9 and an iPad Air 2 (and, soon, iPad Pro), you can now open OneNote on-screen side-by-side with another app using a new feature called Split View. With iOS 9 now rolling out to users of Apple’s i-Devices, Microsoft has released an update to its OneNote mobile app that supports the new system as well as the upcoming iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

Using apple pencil with onenote