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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

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Post by interpol_p »

pvo50555 wrote: post #145

I am consistently shocked at how bad Apple Notes is. I like the features it has and I like the iCloud sync between devices... I use it daily. But it's so damn buggy. It's a notes app! Why do new lines on a moderately-long note cause half the text to disappear until I hit the carriage return a few times? I also wish it simply converted copied text to plaintext by default rather than trying to preserve formatting.

I wouldn't say it's "damn buggy" — I use Notes daily, and have a significant number of notes that are synced between devices. In my notes I use rich formatting, embed videos, voice memos and lots of images. It handles it really well. I even use iCloud Collaboration feature on a few notes for planning, and for splitting regular expenses

I have three notes that exhibit the bug you mention though: the three notes I keep for each of my children's artwork. I scan the artwork using the document scanning tool in Notes, and it gets embedded as a multi-page PDF (if the artwork itself has multiple parts) or a single PDF. After many years of adding high-res scans, when I scroll to the bottom of these files it takes some time for the note to render. I think I picked the wrong tool for the job here, more than anything!

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by threetonesun »

whatever1 wrote: post #78

Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.

HTML is. Markdown is a way of writing it that is human friendly. A notes app that can do rich-text to expressive HTML would be even better but it seems like that's not what the market is interested in.

And if you doubt me on that last point, look at things like callouts in Obsidian, clearly people want to be able to do more but we keep tacking weird formatting extensions onto Markdown.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by SSLy »

basisword wrote: post #229
wltr wrote: post #122

Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19? I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’

Nobody knows yet, it's just a rumour. But year-based versioning makes sense as these products continue to develop and the version numbers get higher. Even as an iOS developer, I've lost track of the phone versions at this point. Year-based versioning would be so much easier. Saying that I hope it's "iOS '26" and not "iOS 26".

> Saying that I hope it's "iOS '26" and not "iOS 26".

that's not going to happen

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by xattt »

SebastianKra wrote: post #216
ornornor wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> spread too thin It’s a choice though, it’s not like they aren’t the richest company in the world.

Nevermind richtest company. It's like every year they release three new half-baked apps, that will not receive updates in years. Just focus on a core and let third-party apps do what they're good at.

Apple used to have to roll-their-own to hedge their bets. For example, Safari and iWork came about when there was a possibility that Microsoft would pull support for IE and Office for Mac.

Now it’s done for momentum.

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by xenodium »

I have lots of happy users who moved from Notes to my app Journelly (feels like tweeting but for your eyes only) https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey...

It’s powered by org plain text, but Markdown is coming too.

Edit: you don’t need to know org markup today to use Journelly. It’s an implementation detail. Here’s a happy user https://ellanew.com/ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for...

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by Terretta »

wltr wrote: post #122

Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19? I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’

To be fair, the news didn't get a ton of interest here last week:

    Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems (theverge.com)
    13 points by thesuperbigfrog 7 days ago | 7 comments
> Instead of just notching up the version number, Apple will instead mark them by year. However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually released in, similar to cars. That means that the next big iOS update will be iOS 26 instead of iOS 19.

-- via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120560

Re: Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26

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Post by nozzlegear »

zombot wrote: post #137
nozzlegear wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As another commenter said, they haven't officially announced it yet. That said, it's all I've heard about in the Apple world for the last couple of days¹, so it may just be that you don't follow Apple news closely. ¹ well that and the iOS redesign.

There is an iOS redesign?

Yeah, also just an unconfirmed rumor until next week, but supposedly it's going to be "glassy."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/03/sdw-physicality...

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