How to Make and Use Quick Notes on iPhone

• You can create a quick note on your iPhone using the share menu or highlighting text in almost any app.
• With Quick Notes, you can easily save links, lines of text, images, and more without leaving your current app.
• After you save a quick note, it appears in your iPhone’s Notes app like any other note.

The Notes app that comes with every iPhone is pretty basic and great for jotting down your thoughts and saving links you don’t want to lose. But when you’re scrolling through another app and find something that piques your interest, you don’t always want to have to leave that app to find your notes.

This is where the new Quick Notes feature comes into play.

How to create a quick note on your iPhone

New in iOS 16, the Quick Notes feature lets you write and save a note in any app on your iPhone without the need to switch. And once you’ve saved that Quick Note, it’ll carry over to the regular Notes app for you to view and edit at any time.

Once you’ve updated your iPhone to iOS 16, there are two ways to create a quick note, and both are pretty easy.

The share menu

First, you can use an app Split Menu. Almost every app – and especially social media apps – has a built-in menu that lets you share an image or link to another app. Its icon usually looks like this a square with an arrow pointing upwards protruding from it.

Once you tap on this icon, scroll down to find that Add to quick note option and tap on it. A window with the title New quick note appears with everything you tried to save already added. You can then type Save on computer top right to complete the quick note or add more.

highlight text

Second, you can create a quick note simply by highlighting some text. This is the best method if you only want to save a few sentences, for example.

In order to do this, tap and hold your finger on the text to highlight it, and then stretch the highlight to capture whatever you want to save. The context menu that lets you copy the text will appear above it – keep typing the arrow pointing to the right in this menu until you find New quick noteand tap on this option.