Apple has added four new features to the Notes app in iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate. This makes the app not only more useful for short notes, but also increasingly a serious place for longer texts, structured information and smart workflows.
So you can now easily copy and paste into Markdown, add dividers and link to sections within notes. With this, Apple expands the Notes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac into a full-fledged productivity app. Also new is Siri AI support, although it is not yet available for iPhone and iPad in the European Union.
Dividers in Notes
Dividers in Notes can help you structure long texts better. They help to divide notes into clear parts, so that you have an overview faster. This may seem like a small change, but it makes a big difference in practice. Especially for meeting notes, schedules, research, travel reports or project overviews, a dividing line makes it easier to find information.
- Open a Note on your iPhone or iPad
- Tap an empty space between or below a text
- Tap the cursor again
- From the pop-up menu, select the greater than (more) sign
- Choose ‘Insert dividing line’
On a Mac you can apply this directly by clicking with a secondary click (right mouse click) on an empty space between or below the text. Then select ‘Add dividing line’ to add it.
Copy and paste into Markdown
While Apple Notes previously had trouble maintaining proper formatting when transferring text, there is now full support for Markdown via the clipboard. This means you can copy and paste text from Notes with a simple formatting structure into other applications or services that support Markdown. This includes texts with headings, lists or subheadings that you want to use in a blog, documentation or content management.
Markdown is a simple text formatting language that allows you to quickly and readably format text using simple characters such as # for headings, ** for bold text and * for italicsinstead of clicking buttons in a word processor. This plain text can then be automatically converted to HTML or another structured form, making Markdown ideal for notes, documentation, articles, and web content where you want to keep the source quickly readable.
Links to selections
You could already easily add links to a note and make text clickable, but from now on it is also possible to link to specific selections and parts within a note. This makes it easier to share a specific part of a long note immediately or quickly find it later. This way you can create a table of contents or quickly connect certain sections to important parts within a note.
- Open a Note on your iPhone or iPad
- Highlight the text you want to link to a selection
- From the pop-up menu, select the greater than (more) sign
- Choose ‘Add link’
- Tap ‘Link to section’
- Choose a desired selection
On a Mac you can also do this by selecting the desired text and clicking on the selected text with a secondary click (right mouse click). Then choose Add Link, click Link to Section and select an option you want.
Siri AI in Notes
Finally, Siri AI in Notes makes it possible to work smarter with your notes by processing, summarizing or supplementing information faster from Apple’s new Apple Intelligence layer. In practice, this means that Notes becomes more than a simple text app: you get an assistant that helps you convert content into useful notes and ideas more quickly, especially when you process a lot of information at the same time.
Unfortunately, Siri AI on iPhone and iPad is currently not available in the EU, due to European regulations and how Apple plans to implement this feature in that region. On the Mac, on the other hand, Siri AI is available in English, as Apple has already released this support for macOS Golden Gate. You can read exactly how this works in the highlighted article below.