Use the revamped Notes app on iPhone
Notes is smarter and easier than ever in iOS
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to get even more from the Notes app
YOU’LL NEED iOS 26 or later
The latest iPhone Notes app isn’t just better-looking with its Liquid Glass makeover. It gets a much more helpful toolbar, an Apple Watch app, audio recording and transcription, and support for importing and exporting Markdown files, which are commonly used by Mac and iPad/iPhone writing apps.
The improved toolbar makes Notes’ many features much easier and faster to find; it changes based on what you’re doing, so if you’re adding text it shows the tools for adding images, tables and other features; if you highlight a paragraph it shows formatting tools, and so on. And Notes is also context aware for things like maths equations and graphs, enabling you to solve sums and create graphs instantly.