iOS 18: This Secret Trick Can Help Keep Your Notes App Organized

Apple released iOS 18 to the general public in September, a week after the company announced its new iPhone 16 lineup, Apple Watch Series 10 and more at its "Glowtime" event. The update brought a handful of new features to your iPhone, like customizable home and lock screens. It also made your Notes app easier to organize with collapsible sections.

There are ways to keep Notes organized, like with tags, but those usually organize whole notes and not the content with the note. With collapsible sections, you can keep the content within individual notes organized and tidy so you can easily find what you're looking for.

Read more: iOS 18 Brings These New Features to Your iPhone

If you've downloaded any of the iOS 18 betas, here's how to create collapsible sections in Notes to keep the app organized.

How to create collapsible sections

1. Open Notes.
2. Tap the new note button -- the square with a pen -- in the bottom right corner of your screen.
3. Add a title to the note, like weeks of the month.
4. Tap the Aa in the toolbar across the top of your keyboard. You might have to tap the plus (+) sign over the top right corner of your keyboard to open the toolbar.
5. Tap Heading or Subheading to name your sections, like the days of the week.
6. Fill out information under your headings and subheadings.
7. Tap the space just in front of your headings or subheadings, and a down arrow will appear to the left of them.
8. Tap that arrow and everything under the heading or subheading will collapse.

Tap the gray arrows on the left side of the screen to collapse and expand sections.

Apple/Screenshot by CNET

It's important to note that headings won't collapse into each other -- same with subheadings and titles. But if you put a subheading under a heading, the subheading can collapse into the heading. And everything will collapse under a title if there's more than one title in a note.

Now you can keep your Notes organized and tidy. I've used the feature to keep track of my work week, as well as meetings, that way I can easily look back on what I was working on earlier in the week or remind myself what I have upcoming in the week.

For more on iOS 18, here's my review of iOS 18, what to know about RCS messaging and our iOS 18 cheat sheet. You can also check out what iOS 18.1 might bring to your iPhone soon.

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