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This Hidden Trick Can Help Keep Your iPhone's Notes App Organized

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Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9 that the next version of the iPhone's operating system will be called iOS 26. The tech giant said iOS 26 will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus and much more to your iPhone this fall. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, the company made it easy to keep your Notes app more organized with collapsible sections.

Read more: iOS 18 Brings These New Features to Your iPhone

There are other ways to keep Notes organized, like with tags, but those usually apply to the whole note and not the content within the note. With collapsible sections, you can keep the content within individual notes organized and tidy so you can easily find what you're looking for.

Here's how to create collapsible sections in Notes to keep the app organized.

How to create collapsible sections

Tap the gray arrows on the left side of the screen to collapse and expand sections. Apple/CNET

1. Open Notes.

2. Tap the new note button — the square with a pen — in the bottom right corner of your screen.

3. Add a title to the note, like weeks of the month.

4. Tap the Aa in the toolbar across the top of your keyboard. You might have to tap the plus (+) sign over the top right corner of your keyboard to open the toolbar.

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