iPhone 16 User Tips: Crucial Steps to Organizing Notes in Folders

The Apple Notes app is among the least used tools in the iPhone’s 16 toolbox, which is a huge shame, as it is truly one of the best free products out there. Despite its seemingly plain and unexciting appearance, the built-in iOS app Apple Notes, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, comes packed with a variety of features and functions that render it incredibly useful.

Here are just a few good arguments in favor of trusting Apple Notes with your note-taking routine:

• Extra security. The app allows you to choose how secure you want your notes to be. If a file contains sensitive data not to be viewed by others, lock it with a password or protect the information with Touch ID/Face ID.
• Collaboration tools. You can easily grant select users access to your notes with editing permissions. Besides, you will be able to view a list of activities taken by other collaborators and a summary of changes made to the file since the last time you opened it. Need to know more about what those changes were? A quick swiping move to the right will reveal the details.
• Formatting made easy. With Apple Notes, you can get as creative as you like: add titles, headings, and bullet points, change the text format, and use tables and to-do lists. Also, do not forget to try all the different ways to organize your notes, like using pins, folders, tags, etc.

These aren’t the only things you can do with the app, but the above should be more than enough to give you an idea of why Apple Notes are such a valuable instrument.

Tips for Organizing Your iPhone Notes With Folders

Now, let us focus on what to do if your notes have become too many and hard to navigate. Naturally, you can opt for the search bar if you are used to doing these things the old-school way, but why waste precious time when there is such a handy alternative as Apple Notes folders?
Below is a quick 10-step guide on organizing iPhone notes in folders in a way that will make it easy to identify and track those:

1. Create an Apple Notes folder/subfolder: hit the New Folder button => select your account => tap New Folder => enter a name for the newly created folder. By pressing and holding down a folder and then dragging it to another folder, you can create a subfolder.
2. Rename an Apple Notes folder: tap and hold down the folder you wish to rename => click Rename => type a new name for your folder.
3. Move an Apple Notes folder to a different location: swipe your finger left on the folder => click Move Folder => choose a new destination for your folder.
4. Delete an Apple Notes folder: swipe your finger left on the folder => press Delete Folder. To reverse the action, visit the Recently Deleted folder and click Recover.
5. Pin a note to the top of your notes list: swipe your finger right on the note => tap the pin icon.
6. Switch to a different folder view: tap the three-dot icon => select View as Gallery/View as List.
7. Change the sort order of objects in a folder: tap the three-dot icon => Sort by => select how you want your notes to be arranged (last date edited/date created/title/oldest to newest, etc.)
8. Group your notes by date: tap the three-dot icon => select Group By Date => press ON.
9. Move a note to a different folder: swipe your finger left on the note => tap Move Folder. Alternatively, press and hold down the note => tap Move => choose a new folder.
10. Delete a note: swipe your finger left on the note => tap Delete Note. Alternatively, press and hold down the note => tap Delete. To reverse the action, visit the Recently Deleted folder and click Recover.

Now that you know why and how to use Apple Notes on Your iPhone 16, we hope your note-taking experience will become much more productive and enjoyable.