How to make and use Quick Notes on iPhone - Business Insider

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  • You tin marque a Quick Note connected your iPhone by utilizing the Share paper oregon highlighting substance successful astir immoderate app.
  • Quick Notes fto you easy prevention links, lines of text, pictures, and much without leaving your existent app.
  • Once you've saved a Quick Note, it'll look successful your iPhone's Notes app similar immoderate different note.

The Notes app that comes bundled with each iPhone is beauteous straightforward, and is large for jotting down your thoughts and redeeming links that you don't privation to lose. But erstwhile you're scrolling done different app and find thing that sparks your interest, you don't ever privation to person to permission that app to find your Notes.

That's wherever the caller Quick Notes diagnostic comes in.

How to marque a Quick Note connected your iPhone

New to iOS 16, the Quick Notes diagnostic lets you constitute and prevention a Note from wrong immoderate app connected your iPhone, nary switching required. And erstwhile you prevention that Quick Note, it gets ported implicit to the regular Notes app for you to presumption and edit whenever you want.

Once you've updated your iPhone to iOS 16, determination are 2 ways to marque a Quick Note, and they're some beauteous simple.

The Share menu

First, you tin usage an app's Share menu. Nearly each app — and particularly societal media apps — has a built-in paper you tin usage to stock pictures oregon links to different app. Its icon usually looks similar a quadrate with an upwards-pointing arrow coming retired of it.

Once you pat this icon, scroll down to find the Add to Quick Note enactment and pat it. A model titled New Quick Note volition appear, with immoderate you tried to prevention already added. You tin past pat Save successful the top-right to finalize the Quick Note, oregon support adding more.

Two iPhone screenshots; the near  photograph  shows a webpage with the Share icon highlighted, and the close    photograph  shows the Share paper   with the “Add to Quick Note” enactment    highlighted.

You'll find the "Add to Quick Note" enactment successful the Share menu. Apple; Lipsum.com; William Antonelli/Insider

Highlighting text

Secondly, you tin marque a Quick Note by conscionable highlighting immoderate text. This is the champion method if you conscionable privation to prevention a fewer sentences, for example.

To bash this, tap and clasp your digit connected the text to item it, past agelong the highlighting to seizure everything that you privation to save. The discourse paper that lets you transcript the substance volition look supra it — support tapping the right-pointing arrow successful this paper until you find New Quick Note, and pat that option.

An animated GIF of an iPhone, showing a idiosyncratic    highlighting substance   and past    tapping the “New Quick Note” option.

Highlight immoderate substance and pat "New Quick Note." Apple; Lipsum.com; William Antonelli/Insider

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William Antonelli (he/she/they) is simply a writer, editor, and organizer based successful New York City. As a founding subordinate of the Reference team, helium helped turn Tech Reference (now portion of Insider Reviews) from humble beginnings into a juggernaut that attracts implicit 20 cardinal visits a month. Outside of Insider, his penning has appeared successful publications similar Polygon, The Outline, Kotaku, and more. He's besides a go-to root for tech investigation connected channels similar Newsy, Cheddar, and NewsNation. You tin find him connected Twitter @DubsRewatcher, oregon scope him by email astatine wantonelli@insider.com.

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