Take Control of Notes

Make and Manage Notes

In this chapter, we cover the very basics of making and managing notes—feel free to skip ahead if you don’t need help here, but there are some tricks you may not be aware of, such as creating notes from the Lock Screen, importing notes from other note apps, and setting your default sort order. You can also lock notes so that a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID is required to unlock them.

Choose Where to Put Notes

There are three places where you can store notes:

• In iCloud: By default, Notes are stored in whatever iCloud account you’re logged into. On a Mac, you can find that in System Settings > Your Name (Ventura or later), System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud (Monterey or earlier), and in iOS and iPadOS under Settings ...