This update makes tags and sync more reliable when you move, duplicate or import notes.

This update fixes a cursor problem in the editor. When you tapped the end of a note to keep writing, the text could slide out of view above the keyboard and the cursor disappeared. Sometimes it came back right away, sometimes only once you started typing. The editor was making room for the keyboard twice, which pushed the text up. The cursor now stays visible, just above the keyboard.

This update lets you send photos from the Photos app to SteelNote. • Share up to 10 photos from Photos to SteelNote: they arrive together in a new note in your Inbox, titled with the date and time. The note keeps a lighter copy of each photo, without its location. • Fixes rare cases where closing a note could leave a second copy of it, or where the notes list briefly showed an older version of a note, hid a note you had just created, or brought back one you had just deleted. • Various fixes and improvements.

This update adds a full-screen image viewer, an on-device AI summary for related notes, and a few more settings. • Tap an image in a note to open it full screen, with pinch to zoom and swipe between the note's images. • On Apple Intelligence-eligible devices, the new Summarize option (on notes that refer to the current one) generates a summary with links to each note. • A new setting shows Markdown syntax (#, **, *) instead of hiding it, with a matching toolbar button to switch quickly. • The search bar and the notes list's action bars now use iOS 26's new glass look (Liquid Glass). • Various fixes and improvements.

This update makes tags easier to manage. • Add a tag to a note from its context menu, or to several notes at once with Select. • Delete a tag from the Tags list. After a confirmation, it is removed from every note that carries it, along with its sub-tags. • Fixes a fault that, in certain conditions, could remove text between angle brackets, such as an email address, or turn a tag at the start of a line into a heading, when you edited a note. • A new, empty note no longer shows that other notes refer to it. • Various fixes and improvements.

This update makes formatting from the toolbar easier. • Tap a formatting button again (bold, italic, strikethrough, highlight, code) to continue in plain text. • In a code block, Return on an empty line at the end of the block takes you out of it. • The open note is now saved as soon as you leave SteelNote. • Fixes a fault that, in certain conditions, could lose the text of a new note left open. • Sync between your devices is more reliable. • Various fixes and improvements.

A daily backup of your whole library. • Once a day, when you open SteelNote, a full copy of your library is saved, to iCloud Drive by default. The last seven copies are kept. • Settings > Backup lets you choose another folder, turn the daily backup off, or back up right away. • Sync between your devices is more reliable. • Various fixes and improvements.

Move more freely between your notes, and see what has not yet reached iCloud. • Follow a link to another note, then come back with “Back to…”, even after several jumps. • Under each note, see how many notes refer to it, and open them directly. • The sidebar now shows notes not yet sent to iCloud. Settings > Sync tells you why, and lets you send them right away. • Private notes are now kept out of widgets, and the large widget shows eight notes. • Various fixes and improvements.

This update fixes a saving fault. • Fixes a fault that, in certain conditions, could lose content from a note you were editing. • An additional safeguard now protects your notes when they are saved. • Various fixes and improvements.

Long lists read like lists again. • When a bulleted or numbered item runs past one line, the wrapped lines now sit under the item's text instead of returning to the left margin. Nested items and checklists follow the same rule, and the indent is measured from each marker, so "10." lines up as precisely as "1.". • Images no longer go missing when a note was renamed on another device. If the file is on your device, it is shown. • Settings, Maintenance: "Clean Up Duplicate Images" finds copies left behind by older syncs. It removes only byte-identical ones, leaves anything that differs, and shows you the numbers before it starts. • "Push All Notes" now re-sends your images too, not only your text.

Your notes arrive again. • Notes written on one device now reach your other devices reliably. A request to iCloud could hang with no time limit, and once that happened the app quietly stopped fetching anything at all until it was relaunched. Every request is now bounded and recovers on its own. • SteelNote looks for changes by itself while it is open, instead of waiting for a notification that never arrived on Mac.

Local really means local. • When iCloud sync is turned off, nothing is sent to iCloud any more. A few paths could still run quietly in the background; they are now closed. • Mail links copied from Mimestream, Outlook, Spark, Fastmail and Proton Mail are recognised the same way as Apple Mail links.

Your notes folder, one tap away. • Settings now opens your notes folder straight in the Files app. They have always been ordinary .md files sitting there; now you can go and look without hunting for them. • You can also rate SteelNote from Settings.

Notes that stay deleted, and no more accidental duplicates. • Notes you delete and then empty from the trash no longer come back. It could happen to a note you had just been editing. • A note whose title changes no longer ends up duplicated.

Autocorrection fixes, and a search index that repairs itself. • Accepting an iPhone autocorrection no longer scrambles the sentence you were writing. This one showed up in everyday text: any line containing a parenthesis, and the first line of every note. • If the search index is ever damaged, SteelNote rebuilds it instead of carrying on without full-text search.

Bug fixes from the first days on the App Store. • Opening the daily note could show a blank screen with no way to close it. Fixed, and the same fault is fixed everywhere a note opens full screen. • On the very first launch, folders no longer claim to be empty while the app is still loading them. • The iCloud message no longer appears when you have turned iCloud sync off. • A second pass on the app icon.