With iOS 18, the Notes app is about to achieve a number of new options. There aren’t many updates to the general design, however Notes has deeper integrations with different apps that add all types of latest performance. There are additionally just a few nifty iPad-only Notes options that contain the Apple Pencil.
Math Notes
Notes integrates with the Calculator app in ‌iOS 18‌ for a brand new function referred to as Math Notes. Math Notes is designed to allow you to resolve equations, so you are able to do issues like add up your month-to-month price range, calculate what individuals owe for a bunch journey, or cut up a restaurant invoice.
Math Notes works straight within the Notes app or within the Math Notes part of the Calculator app. Any equation that you just sort in is robotically solved while you add an equals signal, and there’s assist for variables.
Should you outline a number of variables, you may then use these definitions in your calculations. Should you write dinner = $42, films = $24, and dessert = $18 within the Notes app, you may then sort in dinner + films + dessert and add an equals signal to get the entire. Variables can be utilized in equations and graphs (with a related equation) and adjusted later to alter the outcomes.
You possibly can even do unit conversions with Math Notes. Simply sort in what you need to convert, and you will get the outcome. Should you sort in 10 euros to kilos in a notice after which add an equals signal, the Notes app gives you the reply.
Apple says that Math Notes is ready to resolve all the similar features as a scientific calculator.
Math Notes is offered for math written utilizing Western Arabic numerals and customary mathematical symbols, or typed utilizing Arabic (Japanese & Western) and Devanagari numerals and customary mathematical symbols.
Math Notes in iPadOS 18
On the iPad, you need to use Math Notes with the ‌Apple Pencil‌. Simply write out equations by hand and add an equals signal to have the Notes app resolve them.
All the Math Notes options work with handwriting, together with unit conversions.
Audio Recording and Transcription
The Notes app can be utilized to document any audio, making the most of the microphones within the iPhone. To document audio, faucet on the paperclip icon within the toolbar after which faucet on the “Report Audio” button.
From there, faucet on the crimson document button to start out a recording, and the cease button to finish it. The choice to document audio proper within the Notes app is helpful for lectures, conferences, and extra.
All recordings that you just seize with the Notes app are robotically transcribed in real-time so you may learn by means of what was recorded and even seek for key phrases.
Audio recording and transcribing is offered on the ‌iPhone‌ 12 and later, however the function solely works in English.
Cellphone App Recording
‌iOS 18‌ helps recording cellphone calls, and while you provoke a recording of a cellphone name, that recording is saved within the Notes app. Cellphone app recordings have all the similar performance as audio recordings made within the Notes app, with transcriptions offered.
Transcription Summaries (Apple Intelligence)
Apple Intelligence can be utilized to summarize a transcript of an audio recording or a recorded cellphone name within the Notes app.
A tool that helps Apple Intelligence is required for this function, and that features the iPhone 15 Professional/Professional Max and later in addition to Macs and iPads with an M-series chip.
Collapsible Sections
You probably have lengthy notes with a number of headings, now you can collapse these headings all the way down to create a extra compact notice.
Any part header will be collapsed, together with headings, subheadings, and titles. Simply faucet on a heading after which faucet on the down arrow to break down it. Faucet the arrow once more to open it up.
Spotlight Colours
The Notes app helps colours for typed textual content for the primary time, permitting for highlighting. Apple added 5 colours, together with pink, purple, orange, mint, and blue, with the colours in a position to be added by means of the formatting interface. Simply faucet on the Aa button to get to the colour choices when a phrase or phrase is chosen.
A number of colours can be utilized for a similar sentence, and the colours can be utilized for titles and headings, in addition to mixed with textual content formatting like daring and italics.
Connect Recordsdata
The toolbar icon that allows you to add pictures or scanned paperwork to a notice has been up to date to do extra in ‌iOS 18‌. Tapping on it means that you can connect a file from the Recordsdata app, which makes it a lot simpler so as to add paperwork to a notice. You may as well use it to document audio, which is one other new function.
Prior to now, you needed to copy and paste a file into notes so as to add it, a course of that required a number of steps.
The prior Select Photograph or Video, Scan Paperwork, Take Photograph or Video, and Scan Textual content choices stay. To indicate the brand new performance, the icon for the software is now a paperclip as a substitute of a digital camera.
As an alternative choice to utilizing the toolbar, you may lengthy press on a notice to connect a file, an possibility that wasn’t beforehand out there.
Notes Settings
Should you faucet on the icon that has three dots on the prime proper of a notice, you may get to the Notes settings, the place there are a selection of latest choices.
You possibly can see Current Notes from this interface, with the Notes app displaying a number of of your prior notes for fast entry. There’s additionally a toggle for Math Notes for selecting between steered outcomes and outcomes which might be robotically inserted when an equals signal is typed, or turning the function off.
Prior options for looking by means of the notice, transferring the notice, including traces and grids, and altering the attachment view are all nonetheless out there.
Lock Display Notes
In ‌iOS 18‌, you may add Management Heart controls to the Lock Display. With this function, you may add the choice to open the Notes app into one of many slots that was beforehand taken up by the Flashlight and Digital camera, providing you with an possibility for shortly jotting down your ideas.
You could possibly get to the Notes app from the Lock Display beforehand, nevertheless it required going by means of Management Heart.
Good Script (iPadOS 18)
On the ‌iPad‌, there is a new function referred to as Good Script that is designed to enhance your handwriting with the ‌Apple Pencil‌. The function makes use of machine studying to recreate your personal handwriting fashion to refine what you’ve got written, making messy writing look neater.
Good Script does not change your handwriting, nevertheless it makes it smoother, straighter, and simpler to learn.
With Good Script, you may as well paste typed textual content into your personal handwriting, appropriate handwritten spelling, contact and drag phrases to maneuver them or change the spacing, and scribble out what you’ve got written to erase it.
Writing Instruments is an Apple Intelligence function that may enhance your writing. It will not generate textual content from scratch for you, however it will probably proofread, allow you to rewrite to match a selected tone, and create summaries.
- Proofread textual content for spelling and grammar errors, together with phrase selection and sentence construction. You possibly can settle for all options with a faucet or undergo them one after the other with explanations.
- Rewrite for cleansing up what you’ve got written and shifting the tone with out impacting your content material. Choices embody Pleasant, Skilled, and Concise.
- Choices for choosing textual content and summarizing it. You possibly can select to create a paragraph, pull out key factors, make a listing, or create a desk. Summaries can be found in Mail, Messages, and extra.
To make use of Writing Instruments within the Notes app, all you could do is write one thing, choose your textual content, after which faucet on the fast entry Writing Instruments choices on the prime of the keyboard or choose Writing Instruments by tapping in your chosen textual content.
Writing Instruments will not be out there when ‌iOS 18‌ and iPadOS 18 launch, however the function shall be coming in iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 updates that we anticipate to see in October.
Picture Wand (Apple Intelligence)
The Notes app is designed to combine with Picture Playground, Apple’s upcoming AI-powered picture era app. It is possible for you to to have the Notes app create a picture that goes together with what you’ve got typed up, and on the ‌iPad‌, you can also make a tough sketch of what you need to embody after which have Apple Intelligence generate a extra polished model.
The function that provides pictures into the Notes app known as Picture Wand, and it is not but clear when it will likely be applied.
Learn Extra
Extra info on new options that Apple has added in ‌iOS 18‌ will be present in our iOS 18 roundup.
