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0:00 Your iPhone's notes app is getting some new features this fall with the release of iOS 27. Let me show you what these new features are and let's try some of them out. First, I'll go from my default home screen over to my second home screen and you'll see that I have an Apple notes widget over here. If I tap and hold that widget or long press it, you'll see that there is a new option for widget size all the way on the right in this pop-up. And if I tap that, we'll get a widget that takes up the entire screen, the entire home screen of my iPhone. It's a gigantic widget. Technically, it's called an extra large portrait widget and it could be very handy for the foldable iPhone that's rumored to arrive later this year with a with a massive inner screen.
0:47 Next, let's tap into a note like this note right here. I wrote down some things from Apple's new software announcements last week. You've already been able to break down your note with headings like this general heading over here. If I tap AA, you'll see this is a heading. I can make it a subheading or something like that. But now there's something new. If I find some empty space in my note, if I then tap into the empty space and tap the arrow to the right, you're going to see this new option called insert divider line. And if I tap that, we'll see that there's a new divider line, a horizontal rule in between the sections in my note. Could be handy for breaking down larger your notes. Now, speaking of sections, if I start typing two arrows to the right, so
1:35 this one and then another one, I can insert a link. So, I can actually tap one of these suggestions right here or what I can do instead is just start typing Apple, for example, and WWDC and that brings up my note from Apple's announcements from last year. So, if I tap that, now I will have a link to that other note from this note. And see how there's a suggestion right now in gray it says type a slash to link to a section. That actually does not work yet here, but it does work in a different way. So, first of all, if I tap now this particular link right here, it takes me to that other note, right? Very handy. But, let me just go to a different note, this one over here.
2:21 I'll be on the executive committee for my local Toastmasters club soon. We're going to have a meeting. I jotted down some thoughts for my meeting agenda. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually create a new bullet over here. And I'm going to swipe to the right, and what that's going to do is indent the bullet. Now, see how at the bottom I have this section titled club success plan or a heading really. What I'm going to do is I'm going to type see also club success plan. Then I'm going to select this text over here. So, I'll select and drag. And now what I can do is you see in the bottom toolbar right here in the middle, there is that chain link icon. If I tap that, I make this text a link. And what's new in Apple Notes this year is that you can
3:07 link to a section. So, I can tap link to section, choose the club success plan section, and then what I can do is toggle on use section title. So, I will toggle that on and press the check mark. And now I have a section link right here. So, if I tap that, it scrolls down my note immediately all the way down to the club success plan heading. Quite handy. And by the way, if you didn't already know that you can link to other notes such as by typing those arrow icons, this is the sort of thing you'll learn in my Apple Notes cheat sheet. It's free, just grab it from the link in the video description. Next is that Apple Notes now supports copying and pasting text as markdown. If you're
3:53 not familiar with markdown, it is a lightweight markup language that lets you format text and this is very helpful if you want to move text from one app to a different app without the formatting getting all messed up and you might have had some formatting issues before if you're like me when pasting between apps. In this same note, what I can do is I can just go ahead and select the entire note and then tap and rather than choosing just a copy over here, I'm going to tap the arrow to the right to bring up this menu and I'm going to scroll down to where it says copy as markdown. Now I've copied this text in a way that preserves formatting. I will open a different app. In this case, we will open Todoist, which is a to-do app that I like a lot and I will create a new
4:40 to-do in this other app and say prepare for the executive committee meeting. I'm really impressed I typed that all correctly in the first go, no retakes. Now in the description, I'm going to tap and paste my note and you see that there's these hashtags over here, for example, in front of club success plan. If I just save this to-do and then tap into it and I tap show more in the description, you'll see that my neat headings have been preserved when pasting from Apple Notes into this other app Todoist and that's something that didn't work well before. There will also be a bunch of new possibilities with the Notes app involving the new Siri AI. For example, we'll see right here that Apple
5:27 is going to let Siri create notes or find notes that you couldn't find before or modify notes. This can get quite sophisticated. Unfortunately, I cannot show you this on my iPhone cuz I live in the EU and here in the EU, this is not going to be available anytime soon, but I did record a video showing how to do this on the Mac, so go ahead and watch that video. Other cool things that are powered by the new Siri AI, for example, are this right here. In the Messages app or sometimes in the Mail app, Siri might suggest that you add a certain message or email from someone to the Notes app or to the Reminders app. I'll do a separate video, by the way, on what's new in the Reminders app. So, I think this is pretty helpful and really going
6:13 to be quite cool. And especially the Siri AI features where you can just talk to Siri are going to open up a whole lot of possibilities to just have your phone do things without you having to think about it that much. Now, you probably also already know that if you go into a note in Apple Notes, what you can do is you can just scroll right here and you can tap the attachment button and then you can tap record audio. And if I tap the button at the bottom, Siri is going to record my voice and it's going to transcribe that. So, I will tap pause and tap the check mark, and you see that now there is this recording card that I can tap into and see the exact transcription of what I said. There's
6:59 all sorts of things that I can do with this. I have a separate video where I demonstrated this in more detail, by the way. But, you might have noticed that Siri's transcription wasn't always very good. Now, if you have a very new iPhone, like an iPhone 17 Pro or an iPhone Air, the model that is in the background transcribing your voice and transcribing that to text should be much more accurate. Again, I unfortunately can't test this cuz I don't have an iPhone 17 Pro or an iPhone Air. But, as we all upgrade our devices in the coming years, this is going to be really useful also for creating notes in the Notes app. The thing is, all of these new features
7:45 coming to the notes app are really handy, but the notes app for you is only going to be as useful as the system that you build around it. And if you'd like to start building your system based on Apple notes, start by downloading my free Apple notes cheat sheet. Again, the link to that is in the video description. Thanks for watching. I hope you have a great day, and I'll see you in the next video. Ciao.
