iOS 26: What's New With Notes and Reminders

Apple is updating astir each of its built-in apps with caller features and plan changes successful iOS 26, including Notes and Reminders. Many of the changes to the apps are visual, but determination is immoderate utile caller functionality disposable that you won't privation to miss.

Liquid Glass

The Notes and Reminders apps follow the Liquid Glass plan that's been introduced successful ‌iOS 26‌. Signs of Liquid Glass are much subtle successful these apps than apps similar Camera, but everything looks a small different.


The Notes app's toolbar has rounded corners and is much compact with a frosted solid look, and the keyboard besides has rounded edges. Buttons astatine the apical are circles oregon pills, with the Liquid Glass effect.

In Reminders, the antithetic inbox sections are afloat colour alternatively of white, and each of the assorted buttons are rounder than earlier with a translucent aesthetic. Interfaces for entering and editing reminders besides person the rounded edges that are portion of the caller design.

Reminders

The changes successful the Reminders app spell beyond elemental plan updates, with Apple introducing immoderate utile caller AI features. The caller Reminders features necessitate a instrumentality that supports Apple Intelligence.

Siri Suggestions

Apple added a Siri Suggestions conception to the Reminders app, which volition bring up items that you mightiness privation to adhd to your to-do lists that are recovered successful conversations successful Mail and Messages. Reminders is capable to suggest tasks automatically, taking successful accusation from notes, market items successful a list, and more.


You'll besides spot Reminder suggestions successful apps similar Mail, and you tin pat these to adhd a reminder without opening the Reminders app.

Suggestions for reminders are contextual and personalized to each user, and are designed to marque it easier to make reminders with less interactions. Apple says users volition spot suggestions for tasks, market items, and follow-ups based connected emails and different substance connected the iPhone.

Automatic Categorization

The Reminders app is capable to categorize related tasks into sections that are grouped together. If you request to prime up respective items astatine the market store, for example, the Reminders app tin aggregate these successful 1 area.


If you person respective enactment tasks and errands to run, the Reminders app is capable to abstracted them out, truthful you don't request to walk clip manually sorting your lists.

Control Center

There's present a Control Center enactment for creating a caller reminder. You tin usage it from the Control Center, delegate it to the Action Button, oregon entree it from the Lock Screen by assigning it to 1 of the Lock Screen buttons.

Notes

There are less updates successful the Notes app successful ‌iOS 26‌, but Apple made a mates of changes that volition beryllium utile to users.

Math Notes

Math Notes present supports creating 3D graphs utilizing three-variable equations. An equation similar z=sin(x² + y²), for example, volition make a ripple graph.


Using this diagnostic tin beryllium done by typing successful an equation and past tapping connected 1 of the variables. From there, take the Insert 3D graph option. 3D graphs tin beryllium enlarged, resized, and moved utilizing pat and resistance gestures.

3D graphs are besides supported successful iPadOS 26, including with handwritten equations.

Scrolling Toolbar

You tin present swipe on the toolbar successful Notes to spot each of the disposable instrumentality options. Before, you had to pat into a instrumentality conception to get to each of the features. Even though swiping is an enactment to get to much tools, you tin inactive pat to unfastened antithetic submenus for formatting, representation generation, lists, tables, and more.

Markdown

The Notes app supports exporting contented successful Markdown successful ‌iOS 26‌, truthful you tin prevention notes arsenic Markdown (.md) files that tin beryllium imported into third-party apps that enactment Markdown. Writing successful Markdown is not supported successful the Notes app.

Search

The Folders presumption of the Notes app present has an always-visible hunt barroom astatine the bottommost alternatively than a hidden barroom that's accessible with a swipe from the apical of the app.

Call Recordings

Conversations from the caller Phone app connected the iPad and the Mac tin beryllium saved arsenic audio recordings with transcriptions successful the Notes app. This was antecedently disposable connected the ‌iPhone‌ successful iOS 18, but with the Phone app expanding to caller devices, the telephone signaling functionality has expanded arsenic well. Transcriptions necessitate ‌Apple Intelligence‌.

Read More

We person an iOS 26 roundup that has much accusation connected each of the caller features that are disposable successful ‌iOS 26‌.
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