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uh but creating one that feels like wow this is this is this is the greatest iPad calculator app we we we want to do
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it when we can do it really really well it's been a long running joke that the Apple iPad does not have a calculator
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app and when we pressed Craig feder about this he told us that Apple was waiting to do something really special
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well at WWDC 2024 this year Apple finally released the iPad calculator and it turns out they did do something
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pretty special see the iPad calculator app starts looking just like the iPhone calculator until you enable math notes
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math notes let you handw write those equations and then it solves them for you automatically in your handwriting
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you can do variables and exponents and all different types of math it'll even graph things for you it's pretty
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incredible what they didn't say was that this is also going to be available on the calculator on the iPhone when it
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comes out in iOS 18 in September we talked more about this and everything else at WWDC on this week's waveform
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episode so make sure you go subscribe to that channel to see more