Notes is the best place to jot down quick thoughts or to save longer notes filled with checklists, images, web links, scanned documents, handwritten notes, or sketches. And with iCloud, it's easy to keep all your devices in sync, so you’ll always have your notes with you.
Features
Powerful note-taking
• Add attachments - PDFs, photos, maps, web links, and more.
• Record and transcribe audio directly into a note.
• Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner.
• Secure sensitive or personal data in a locked note.
• Create checklists. Make a grocery list, a wish list, or a to-do list, then tap to check off items as you go.
• Apply different text styles, such as heading or body, bulleted lists, highlighting, and more.
• Tap next to section headers to reveal a chevron to collapse text.
• Add tables to quickly organize information.
• Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to sketch right in your note or an inline PDF. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colors, and add lines and grids to a note for easier writing and drawing.
• Take a Quick Note without opening the app - add Quick Note to your Control Center, swipe up from the bottom right corner with an Apple Pencil on iPad, or use Fn-Q on a keyboard.
Organize and search
• Search for text in notes, your handwriting, and even inside scanned documents and photos like receipts or bills.
• Link from one note to another to connect ideas, content, or any information. Try typing >> for a shortcut to add links while writing in your note.
• Keep your notes in folders and subfolders, or add tags to categorize them. Type or handwrite tags directly in your note - like #cooking or #expenses.
• Automatically organize notes in a Smart Folder based on filters. Create rules to filter for Date Created, Checklists, Attachments, and more.
Collaborate
• Collaborate on entire shared folders or on specific shared notes.
• Mention friends to notify them of important updates and link them directly to a shared note.
• See what others added into a shared note while you were away with Activity view, a day-to-day list summary of activity from each collaborator.
Notes for Apple Watch
• View all of your iCloud notes right from your wrist; you can also pin notes, complete checklist items, or create new notes with dictation or Siri.
Certain features are available only in select languages and regions.
Lovely for writing stories, lists, bucketlists, etc!
Mica7311
I use this app for ALL my writing, and I capitalize all for a reason. Since I first got my phone, I have been searching for a app that is private and that I can share my note with somebody. This is the exact app I was looking for. Firstly, when you start your note, it lets you TITLE it, unlike some apps that just make a note and you have to remember the paragraph. Second, it lets you use copy and paste fonts. I have had SO, SO, so many apps that you put different fonts that you copy and pasted in, come out as ugly boxed x’s. This app is different, and perfect. It also gives you unlimited access, unlike most other apps that cost money to write one thing down. Thank you Apple, for making that. I also like how when you put a • and write something, (like a bucket-list), and you press return, it types it for you! This lets my hands take a break from having to go the the 123 keyboard, to the #+= keyboard and press •. It also lets you share it with people in your messages, and through other websites. I love this part, specifically because it gives you the option for you to let them edit it, or view it. Once, I didn’t know that was a option so one of my friends thought it would be funny to mess around with my work. I ended up re-fixing it and finding out you could let people view it only. Thank you for that. - a pleased downloader and girl who’s hoping to be an author, thanks to this app: (and who’s hands are hurting from writing so much)
Memory Lapse, Perhaps it’s a combination of genetics aging 46 years of teaching math & science in MS
Hank Nesby
NOTES is a very profound technological feature that helps to gather together all the words, names, or phrases that tend to escape my fading memory. I am inclined to believe that my mind or brain is so crowded with Math and Science Concepts and teaching strategies that I personally employed over my 46 years of teaching both subjects in Middle School Curriculums. TO THE POINT OF FORCING INFORMATION OUT OF REACH. The Brain can only absorb so much. There is a limitation. In fact many educators taught only one subject matter area that required yearly standardized testing and some taught areas requiring NO testing period. On the other hand, I had the stress and pressures of teaching TWO VERY SPECIFIC AREAS OF STANDARDIZED TESTING, Math and Science! My classroom had FOUR WALLS and I would fill each WALL WITH SCIENCE AND MATH WORDS that students would view in lieu of acquiring the knowledge and understanding via process steps in higher order thinking skills that often added Rigor to the state standards and curriculum requirements. So in my retirement years, I am using my NOTE FEATURE as my own personal WORD WALL to help me rekindle lost words phrases names dates events etc. it’s working for now. I read my NOTE FEATURE METICULOUSLY AND OFTEN TO PRIME MY THOUGHTS ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM DOING A QUICK WRITE.
Watching, Learning, Listening…
Queen Of Yehudah
I’ve been utilizing the notes app for sometime now, to be more specific for sure since September 25, 2021, when I had a supernatural encounter with The Most High God. I find that the app documents date and time so that I don’t have to. I use it to journal my conversations with GOD, to document my prayers, supplications and intercessions. What gave me pause about a year into using the apps is that I was made aware that Nothing and I do mean NOTHING WE INPUT INTO THESE DEVICES ARE PRIVATE. Yes, I actually witnessed someone who was able to access my notes and read from them publicly. As I have gone forward, that concern or fear has become less to almost non-existent, as most people are deceived into believing lies. Since, I’ve made a choice to spend my days seeking My Father perhaps those who are accessing my notes are learning something that would otherwise remain untaught, therefore, UNLEARNED? The one update I would like to see is that the notes stay time stamped from the onset of the note. I have found when going to retrieve a note, if I make any changes, it documents the most current date and time. My changes are always spelling and grammar, however this causes my notes to be out of sync. For example, most mornings I arise between the hours of 1am -3am to sit with my Heavenly Father, if I start my note at 2:20am and write until 5:40am but come back at 1pm to write more during the same 24hours it documents my notes for a start time of 1pm…this inaccuracy is a nuisance to me, so I have started to document within my notes proper start and finish times including the dates. So, if you are ok knowing that your intellectual property can and will be accessed without your permission, by all means USE Notes. For while one is watching you God is also watching THEM watch YOU.
Changing the password
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So I know we have to go through settings, but for some reason the app still doesn’t recognize the changed password. Also when I use the Face ID it tells me that the note is unlocked, yet it stays on the locked screen. I feel like this is just a default in the app and I’m hoping that it gets fixed. Update: it has been a few months and the problem is still not resolved. The Face ID is now gone so I still can’t get into my old notes. The new password only works for new notes which is highly frustrating. I’m still waiting for this mishap to be fixed and it needs to be done immediately. — Update: it’s been about a year and now if you forgot the password you can’t get into the note and you can’t even use the Face ID either. I don’t understand the point of making or resetting the password if you’re only doing so, to get into the locked notes. Also, I can delete the locked note with the new password but I can’t get into the note. (Which doesn’t make sense because at first it would ask me for the old one.) At this point it doesn’t make much sense. Especially when I locked other notes with a different password that I remember but I have to use another one which is the one that I forgot. It doesn’t add up to what you’re saying.—update: been about 2 years now and honestly, I still have the same problem with this. Personally I think the way of resetting the password should be reverted back to how it was before, where the changed password works for ALL the notes. Seeing as most people reset a password because they forgot the old one.
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