How to Share Notes app on iPhone 11 ?

Mustufa Ansari
CodixLab
Published in
3 min readMar 11, 2020

Sharing notes app on the iPhone is a lesser-known but very useful feature included with iOS 13, iPad 13, and macOS Catalina. sometimes, the notes you write are important for others, too. You can share your ideas with others by sharing the notes app. The use cases for this are vast. Sharing Notes app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac with the latest software is handy while we wait for iCloud Drive folder sharing as well for the long term. Here is how you can share notes.

How to share Notes app on iPhone 11, iPad, and Mac?

Once you’ve started a note, you can invite others to view and collaborate on it with you. Before you get started, ensure the device you’re using Notes on is updated to the latest iOS and that you’ve set up iCloud. The person you’ll be sharing your Notes with should do the same on their device.

  1. Open the Notes app and open a folder
  2. Tap the Notes app on your iPhone’s home screen, then tap to select the iCloud note you wish to share.
  3. In the upper right-hand corner of your screen, tap the icon to add people, which looks like the outline of a person inside a circle with a + sign.
  4. choose how you would like to send the invitation: You can use Message, Mail, social media, or productivity apps.
  5. You can change the Share Options to give view-only permission (edit permission is the default)
  6. Once they receive the note, they’ll be able to access and edit it in the Notes app, and it will be added to their iCloud library.

How to see what has changed in a note, even if you’re not working in the Notes app on iPhone 11?

You can see changes others have made with the Highlight Changes feature. This makes it so easier to see what’s been added without having to watch it change in real-time.

  1. Open the Notes app.
  2. Navigate to the Note you are sharing.
  3. Tap the Collaborate icon. It looks like a silhouette of a head with a checkmark icon next to it.
  4. Tap the Highlight All Changes switch to turn it on.

How to stop receiving notifications about changes to a note in the Notes app on iPhone 11?

If you don’t want to hear a distracting ring bell every time someone makes, even a minor change to a note you’re sharing on, you can quiet your note and your nerves.
1. Open the Notes app.
2. Then Navigate to the Note you are sharing.
3. After that Tap the Collaborate icon. It looks like a silhouette of a head with a checkmark icon next to it.
4. Tap the Hide Alerts switch to turn it on and you will be done by doing so

How to remove access to note to a user on the iPhone and iPad?

If you accidentally shared a note with someone that you don’t want to see or purposely want to remove someone from sharing information you can do by following these steps
1. Firstly for removing someone Open the Notes app.
2. Then Navigate to the Note you are sharing.
3. After that Tap the Collaborate icon. It looks like a silhouette of a head with a checkmark icon next to it.
4. Finally, Swipe to the left and tap Remove
5. You can also tap a person’s name and then tap Remove Access.

Wrapping up

This is a perfect feature for sharing grocery and shopping lists, a to-do list, to share notes from a class or conference, quickly sharing an idea, collaborating on some simple collection or concept, and so much more. You can also add or remove the people anytime you are sharing notes with

Originally published at https://www.codixlab.com on March 11, 2020.

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Mustufa Ansari
CodixLab

📱Android/iOS Developer 🖋️ I Write For Mobile Developers 🎓 Tech Enthusiast