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TL;DR Android Authority has been able to enable settings in Google Keep that refer to lock screen note fucntionality.
The functionality doesn’t currently work, even once enabled in settings.
We last saw Google working toward a feature like this in late 2023. An official release timeline remains unknown.
A couple of years ago, we published evidence that Android 14 was laying the groundwork to let users take quick notes in Google Keep using a new lock screen shortcut. That feature never publicly materialized, but now it seems like Google’s taking another crack at it.
Experimenting with the latest version of Google Keep, we were able to see hidden settings that reference lock screen notes. The feature isn’t actually working yet, but it does look like it could be released any time now.
Back in late 2023, Android 14’s developer settings let users set a default app for note-taking. Once you’d done that, you could set a lock screen shortcut to quickly take notes. Google Keep was eligible to be that app, but it never actually supported the functionality — calling the app up using the shortcut only showed a message that said Keep needed an update.
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In the latest version 5.26.181.01.90 of Google Keep, we’ve again been able to access settings that refer to this lock screen notes functionality. We’re not able to actually take notes from the lock screen yet; trying to do so leads to a screen that says “Coming soon.”
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