iOS 18 Notes App Supports Colors for Highlighting Typed Text

[MacRumors]

The Notes app in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 supports colors for typed text for the first time, providing an option to add new hues to text.

Apple offers five colors, including purple, pink, orange, mint, and blue, and there is no option for custom colors. Colors can be added to text through the formatting interface that can be accessed by tapping on the Aa button, with the shade applied to any text that is selected. Both the text and the background turn the selected color when the feature is used.

The five color options are useful for highlighting select words and passages in text. Multiple colors can be used in the same sentence, but it is worth noting that there does not seem to be an option for colored text without the shaded background, or black text with a colored background.

Written text added to Notes on the iPad has supported multiple color options, but Apple has not made that a feature for typed text prior to now.

Other features in the iOS 18 Notes app include live audio transcription and summarization, collapsible section headers, and the option to have Notes solve typed math problems (or written on the iPad).

The iOS 18 beta is available to developers at the current time, with Apple planning to introduce a public beta in July.

Article Link: iOS 18 Notes App Supports Colors for Highlighting Typed Text

 

[symphony]

Can we please have folder icons like the Shortcuts and Reminders app? I feel like these would be more useful in a Notes app.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Finally! I primarily use notes to review/read pdfs. It works great for iPad Pro with color coding for different highlighted context. I use iPhone on the go, but is a pain with out context based color highlighting.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Can we please have folder icons like the Shortcuts and Reminders app? I feel like these would be more useful in a Notes app.

Notes already supports multiple files in a single note. What icons are you referring?

 

[Marty80]

It’s now time for Apple to add the ability to customise fonts.

 

[vegetassj4]

Man.....Wall Street really loves this cutting edge leap forward, making the notes app years ahead of any note taking app on the market today. They should call it Notes Pro™

 

[symphony]

Notes already supports multiple files in a single note. What icons are you referring?

Folder icons

 

[sw1tcher]

Apple offers five colors, including purple, pink, orange, mint, and blue, and there is no option for custom colors.

There should be 6 colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue

 

[TechnoMonk]

There should be 6 colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue

Nope. Anything less than a rainbow is not acceptable.

 

[TechnoMonk]

Folder icons

Ok. Never used nor needed. Between pinned notes and search, I am set. I can see the need for folders though. For me I avoid folders and keep it simple.

 

[symphony]

Ok. Never used nor needed. Between pinned notes and search, I am set. I can see the need for folders though. For me I avoid folders and keep it simple.

Of course, everything in a sense needs a folder to be organize

 

[vegetassj4]

There should be 6 colors: green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue

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Nope. Anything less than a rainbow is not acceptable.

Apple offers five colors

Noooooo.....way too many, as everyone knows, there are 4 colors (CMYK)

 

[now i see it]

This feature has been available on the Mac at least since Catalina

 

[phenste]

seeing them add to the Notes app is nice, particularly on iPadOS. really beyond aggravated with Evernote’s absurd price hike in the last year, it’s been my go-to UI (with the notebook system) for over a decade and I’m sick of it—the development team seems determined to out-bloatware iTunes at this point. this might be enough to get me to move my notes over and get used to Apple’s interface.

 

[nt5672]

Meanwhile, Xcode 16 just crashed on me when tying to add a package. Mail forgets to process rules on messages. Notifications never appear. Search does not find files I know exits. And on and on. I think the priorities at Apple these days are just plain wrong.

 

[Razorpit]

Is there any kind of revisioning available in Notes as in Pages? Let’s say you accidentally delete something important and you go past “one too many undo steps” to retrieve it? Can you go back in time like in the old days with Time Machine to recover a backup?

 

[NervousFish2]

This is actually one of the reasons I was holding out on switching from Evernote... is notes slowly and silently becoming Apple's killer app? Think it now pretty much has all the features I need and use, except the more comprehensive full text web clipping.

 

[gwhizkids]

Meanwhile, Xcode 16 just crashed on me when tying to add a package. Mail forgets to process rules on messages. Notifications never appear. Search does not find files I know exits. And on and on. I think the priorities at Apple these days are just plain wrong.

Repeat after me: It’s…a…beta.

 

[Populus]

I love how, aside from the whole AI thing, iOS 18 is FULL of small and useful details, and not so small improvements on stock apps such as Mail, Photos, Calendar and Notes.

 

[gwhizkids]

I love how, aside from the whole AI thing, iOS 18 is FULL of small and useful details, and not so small improvements on stock apps such as Mail, Photos, Calendar and Notes.

Those are always my favorites. The old "Surprise and Delight" formula at work!

 

[Rafagon]

Can we please have folder icons like the Shortcuts and Reminders app? I feel like these would be more useful in a Notes app.

We already have folder icons.

 

[gwhizkids]

We already have folder icons.

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I think the request was really for customizable folder icons

 

[Rafagon]

I'm not satisfied with these "colors."

This is more along the lines of highlighting, not true colored text.

If the macOS version of Notes supports colors, I don't see why they can't implement them in the iOS version so that we may have feature parity.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

Something I wanted 6+ years ago when trying to replace OneNote, which was able to highlight text FOREVER. I left Notes, like Safari going on 5 years now. The dribble of stuff from Apple never really makes sense.

 

[boss.king]

We already have folder icons.

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We have folder icon. Singular.

Being able to change or customise them for easier identification is the request.