I believe it to. Anecdotally, my old method for studying while in school was just to handwrite out notes as I read. I would not even go back to review them as the act of simply writing it out by hand was enough to retain it. Typing I feel like is much more autopilot. The amount of times I misspell or write the incorrect word while typing is way higher than anything done by hand.

That said, my handwriting is also atrocious and I would not want to ever have to disseminate something in that form over a nice, typed document.

Our brains are (to use a crude analogy) muscle movement computers/orchestra conductors. I reckon there are just more parts of your brain involved creating specific fine motor movements for holding a pen/pencil than just tapping keys that never really move relative to your hands.

I got an iPad specifically so I could kinda get a hybrid of both technology and handwriting. The new ios hand writing feature made it even better.

I agree on the iOS 14 handwriting update... for Chinese. Despite normally being easier to process than, the Latin alphabet recognition is poor, in normal condition of writing (i.e. I won’t adjust my writing to olease the system). Or made it’s the model language that only knows English? Anyway it didn’t feel good enough yet for real world usage.

Oh dear, I just had a flashback to the "handwriting" on the Palm Pilot.