Notes

The Notes  app is great for casual note-taking, list-making, and sketching. You can format your note using headings and add tables to organize your data. You can also draw, add photographs and use the camera to scan documents to add as notes. Notes can transcribe your dictated notes with punctuation!

Notes synced to iCloud will sync to your other devices signed in to the same account. This also means that shared notes update automatically for everyone they are shared with.

Typing and dictating a note

1. On the Home screen, tap Notes . The app will open to the last note you were viewing or working on.
2. Tap  (lower right) to begin a new note.
3. If the keyboard is not visible, touch anywhere on the note, and the keyboard will appear at the bottom of the screen.
4. Your first sentence becomes the note’s title.
5. You can also tap to activate Siri and dictate your note. Ask Siri to “start a new note.” You can verbalize punctuation, like saying “comma.” The punctuation will be inserted, not the word. (You must be connected to the Internet to use dictation.) You can edit text with the keyboard while dictating.
6. Tap Shift once to capitalize a single letter. (The first letters of sentences are automatically capitalized.) Double-tap Shift to lock caps and type a series of upper case letters. Locked caps display the arrow with a bar underneath  .
7. Tap  to add an emoji.
8. Touch within text to place the insertion point to edit, delete, or add text.
9. Tap to add a table.
10. Tap to access additional text styles, including title, header, and list styles.
11. Tap  to insert a checklist.
12. Tap to insert a picture or video.
13. Tap to open a drawing canvas.

Share notes

1. If viewing a note, tap . Or, from the list of notes, swipe left on the note you want to share, then tap .
2. Set Share Options such as whether the invitee can make changes or invite others to view the note.
3. Choose how to send the invitation.

Quick Notes

Use Quick Notes to save information over any app or screen on iPhone.

To start a Quick Note from any app:

1. Tap within the app, then tap Add to Quick Note.
2. Open Control Center, then tap .

Note Settings

You can control many of the options in the Notes app.

• Go to Settings  > Notes to manage accounts and options.