Notes (application)
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Stable release |
9.3 (13E237) / March 28, 2016
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| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | iOS |
| License | Freeware |
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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Stable release |
4.4 / March 28, 2017
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| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Objective-C (application), Javascript (web-based UI) |
| Operating system | OS X 10.8 or later |
| Platform | macOS |
| License | Freeware |
Notes is an application developed by Apple. It is provided on their iOS and macOS operating systems, the latter starting with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It functions as a service for making short text notes, which can be synchronised between devices using Apple's iCloud service.
The application uses a similar interface on iOS and macOS, with a textured paper background for notes and light yellow icons, suggesting pencil or crayon. Until 2013, both applications used a strongly skeuomorphic interface, with a lined paper design; the Mountain Lion version placed this inside a leather folder. This design was replaced in OS X Mavericks and iOS 7.
Starting with iOS 9, Notes received a significant functional overhaul; iCloud sync (instead of ; in-line with the OS X 10.11 version), the ability to create sketches (and later, support for Apple Pencil), advanced text formatting options, several styles of lists, rich web and map link previews, support for more file type attachments, a corresponding dedicated attachment browser, and a system share extension point for saving web links, images, etc.
As of iOS 9.3, individual notes can be password-protected (with the ability to use Touch ID to unlock all notes on compatible devices), however only one password can be set for all notes locked henceforth. The password syncs across compatible devices.
In iOS 10, Notes now has a collaboration feature for many people to work on a note at the same time.
Prior to Mountain Lion, Mail on macOS supported a mailbox containing notes, which was synced with notes in the Notes application in iOS. This situation was a kludge: as Mail already implemented the IMAP mailbox synchronisation protocol, it could also sync notes with minimal additional work.
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