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Apple Notes: Five incredibly useful tips
Apple Notes comes standard on iPhones, iPads, and iMacs. Here are five incredibly useful things you can do with Notes.
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Here are five things you can do with Apple Notes.
SYNC NOTES WITH iCLOUD
Apple Notes looks like a small yellow notepad and is a terrific digital organiser.
Once it’s synced with iCloud, you will have your notes on your devices. Be sure to take this extra step. Go to Settings > (Your Name) > iCloud, then turn on Notes. You will see your notes on all of your Apple devices that you have signed in to with the same Apple ID.
NEW WAYS TO START USING APPLE NOTES
1. Use it as a document scanner
When you need to scan a document, there is no need to get a third party app. Notes will handle the job.
Open the Notes app. Create a new note by clicking the icon that looks like a square with a pen located at the bottom right of the screen. Tap the camera icon at the bottom of your new note and select scan documents.
Hold your phone over the document you want to scan. Your app will detect a document and scan it when it is set to auto. In manual mode you will need to snap the photo. Swap between modes at the top right of your screen.
Tap the photo shutter button at the bottom of the screen to complete the scan. You can edit the image after you take it by dragging around the page corners. When finished tap Save on the bottom right of your screen. Your file will save as a PDF. You can also email or message the scan right within Notes.
2. Have Siri take notes for you
You can dictate your text and Siri will confirm and save your note. You can also update your Notes using Siri. Simply say “Hey Siri, update my house number note.”
Siri is on target with Notes.You can ask Siri to find notes that contain certain subjects as well.
3. Keep the family organised with Apple Notes
With Notes you can create a list and ask others in the family to add to that list.
You can now share an entire folder with anyone with iOS 13. To share a folder swipe left and tap on the Add People icon. Select how you want to invite people. If you wish to share in a view only mode, select share options and check view only.
4. One place for remodelling and project ideas
Whether you are remodelling a small bathroom or designing a backyard garden, you may have a few hand drawn sketches with your plans. Use Notes to create a folder containing photos of your sketches. You can also add attachments, including other photos, videos, or web links so you have all your ideas in one place.
Apple Notes has no problem searching typed or handwritten text. The app could not search images in previous versions but that changed with iOS 13.
Type in your specific term in the search bar and Notes will return all instances of the word from text entries, images, and saved scanned documents.
5. Store important documents and numbers
If you want to keep a note private from anyone who might use your device you can use Face ID, Touch ID, or a password to lock and unlock your notes.
Open the note you want to protect and tap the share icon in the upper right corner, then choose Lock Note.
Give the note a password and if you want, enable Face ID or Touch ID too. Keep in mind that you will not be able to view the locked note if you forget the password. Once locked you will see a lock icon next to the note along with the last date it was edited. To unlock enter your password.
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