How to Search in Notes on iPhone and iPad

How to Search in Notes on iPhone and iPad

Are you looking for a specific note on the Notes app of your iPhone or iPad, but you cant quite remember which note it was or where to find it? Maybe you have a bunch of notes and you want to quickly get to one about a particular topic? No problem, you can search through Notes in iOS by keywords or search terms instead, and the search will offer matching notes to whatever phrase or word youre looking for. Searching within Notes offers the quickest way to locate a particular note, and it provides a great solution for quickly sorting through and browsing through large notes collections. As is often the case with search tools in iOS, the Search box is a bit hidden and thus its easy to overlook or not even realize it exists not to worry, its super simple to find and use, as well demonstrate. In the example above, we searched for the term orange and found one matching note with the text matching orange in that note.

You can search for any word, phrase, term, keyword, or other text or numbers to match, and any matching notes will be found and listed. While notes that have will be returned as well if there it included text which matches a phrase, you cant search for a specific drawing by a description of it (yet, anyway). Additionally, only the names of will turn up but content within the password protected notes will not display or be searched. The searched notes will include whichever notes collection you are in, whether those are Notes stored in iCloud or notes stored locally on a device, or even . Most iOS apps with large amounts of data offer a search feature, including , , , , and much more. Oh and by the way, if you prefer to search by voice, than you can also perform basic searches of Notes as well as some other tasks too. Do you know of any other interesting Notes tricks? Do you have some search tips or tricks for uncovering information in the Notes app on iOS even faster? Share with us in the comments!