The Notes app has seen its share of updates over time, and with iOS 14 and later, it received another improvement. You can use the quick styles gesture to change the font to bold, italics, a heading, or a title. Of course, you had the ability to change the text in Notes on iPhone before, but now you can do it faster than ever. Here’s how to use quick styles in Notes on iPhone.
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How to use Data Detectors and Shape Recognition on iPad
Apple’s "on-device intelligence" is used in a variety of forms. From Smart Stacks and Siri Suggestion widgets to the Translate app to Accessibility recognition features, your device continues to learn from your actions and patterns. Using that same technology, upgrades to iPadOS 14 in combination with Scribble let you do things easier on your iPad.
If you use your Apple Pencil for handwritten notes and shapes, you can take advantage of your iPad’s smarts with Data Detectors and Shape Recognition. Each of these make capturing notes that you want to save or share simpler for others to read or for you to act on.
Here, we’ll explain Data Detectors and Shape Recognition and how they work on iPad with Scribble to help you.
How to copy and paste handwritten notes as typed text on iPad
In this brief tutorial, we will show you how to copy and paste handwritten notes as typed text so that the notes you took on your iPad with Apple Pencil appear as actual text ready to be used in other apps.
How to pin notes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Learn how to pin notes in order to do a better job of organizing your stack of notes in the Apple Notes app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How to use the actions menu in Notes app on iPhone and iPad
Get quick and easy access to the most common actions of the Notes app on iPhone and iPad by learning how to use the handy actions menu for an individual note, folder, or sub-folder.
How to store Secure Notes on Mac with Keychain Access
Learn how to use the hidden Secure Notes feature of the Keychain Access app on your Mac to store confidential notes, private text, PINs, credit card numbers, 2FA backup codes, cryptographic keys, etc.
How to add and remove links in Notes on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Notes is a terrific app for doing exactly what the name implies. And whether you use Notes for work, school, or personal items, there’s bound to be a time when you want to include a link. By adding a link in a note, you can simply tap or click it and go right to the site or page without copying and pasting the URL.
You can add links to Notes in a few different ways on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, as shown in this guide.
This tweak makes it easier to discern when a note was created & last modified
If you’re anything like me, then you might take advantage of your iPhone’s Notes app somewhat frequently to jot down important memos to yourself.
One problem that may arise while using Apple’s Notes app is that it can be tough to discern when Notes were first created, and that’s something that a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called NotesCreationDate13 by iOS developer gilshahar7 tries to address.
How to stop the Notes app from starting new notes with a Title on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Do the new notes you create always start with a title? Learn how to set the Apple Notes app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to begin with the main body text instead of the huge title.
How to use comments in Pages, Numbers and Keynote
This tutorial shows you how to add, edit, hide, and delete comments in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How to display the note count in the Notes app on Mac
This tutorial shows you how to display the notes count next to the folders and sub-folders of the Notes app on your Mac.
How to save photos, videos and scans taken in Notes to Photos on iOS
If you use the Notes app on your iPhone or iPad for not just note-taking but capturing photos, videos, and scans to reference within your notes, you can also save those items to your Photos app.
This means that if you want to use that capture for something else, you can find it easily in Photos rather than opening the Notes app for it. Maybe you thought this was happening all along, only to discover recently that it’s not.
Here’s how to automatically save photos, videos, and scans taken in Notes to Photos on iPhone and iPad.