Interesting, considering MS just announced the same exact feature in the new Notepad app on Windows 11 last week.
Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
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Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#22> Instead of tapping buttons to bold text or create headers, users could type *bold* or # Header directly into their notes. Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too. Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that…
But formatting already-typed text on iOS is incredibly fiddly (as you have to select a text span first, and iOS fights you every step of the way when you do this — especially if the span starts or stops at something iOS doesn't consider a "whole token.")
Meanwhile, inserting punctuation representing formatting into already-typed text, merely requires placing the insertion caret, which is much less fiddly.
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#23I switched from Evernote to Upnote and now that I have X-url-callbacks and I can link into notes, I’ve found my note utopia.
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#24In case anyone else had no idea where the 26 came from:
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/03/exclusive-ios-26-messages-car...
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#25> Instead of tapping buttons to bold text or create headers, users could type *bold* or # Header directly into their notes. Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too. Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that…
I tend to copy Markdown content from other sources into Apple Notes. Being able to paste into Notes and have it format in the view is a big win. It is possible reporting is getting this wrong and the Markdown feature and it is just to serve use case above. As an example, Google Docs recently enabled "Paste from Markdown" that also is a huge convenience.
Yeah, this would be huge for me; I often toss a bunch of notes into an Apple Notepad note just to have it in my pocket, and everything I write with a keyboard is markdown.
This just makes it so I don't have to stare at a bunch of random characters and can have actual formatting. A win in my book!
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#26Microsoft notepad is also getting markdown support. It's a very interesting coincidence! Overall, I'm surprised to see markdown become mainstream so quickly. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-fo...
It took “only” 20 years
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#27Microsoft notepad is also getting markdown support. It's a very interesting coincidence! Overall, I'm surprised to see markdown become mainstream so quickly. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/30/text-fo...
Quite honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken this long. It’s been 21 years since one of their biggest evangelists wrote the format!
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#28I really hope Apple Notes makes this something that's opt-in and I don't have to see. Thankfully it sounds like it is an export only feature.
I think there is a bifurcation of people who like markdown and people who like rich text. And both groups have strong opinions. Apple Notes was my goto rich text editor. Fingers crossed that they aren't making this worse for us.
Related: I switched away from Bear notes because personally I find markdown hideous to look at. This post made me go back and check on it today and it looks like Bear notes now supports hiding markdown right after you type it. This seems like a really good compromise, though I still don't like that I see it when I place my cursor on it. Worth a shot if you're a "never markdown" person like me.
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#29I would have killed for this back in 2022.
I take all of my notes on ChatGPT now, and for more structured data I have built specialized tools/agents, and even small front ends like for my portfolio management track.
It’s crazy how different my world used to be back then; note apps feel so primitive now.
Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
#30I would have killed for this back in 2022. I take all of my notes on ChatGPT now, and for more structured data I have built specialized tools/agents, and even small front ends like for my portfolio management track. It’s crazy how different my world used to be back then; note apps feel so primitive now.
I'm sorry, are you saying that you sent all your notes to ChatGPT as prompts? How do you recall or get your notes back?