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

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

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 Aain 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.
5.Tap Headingor Subheadingto name your sections, like the days of the week.
6.Fill out information under your headings and subheadings.
7.Tap the space just in front of your headings or subheadings, and a down arrow will appear to the left of them.
8.Tap that arrow and everything under the heading or subheading will collapse.

It's important to note that headings won't collapse into each other, and same with subheadings and titles. But if you put a subheading under a heading, the subheading can collapse into the heading. And everything will collapse under a title if there's more than one title in a note.

Now you can keep your Notes organized and tidy. I've used the feature to keep track of my work week, as well as meetings, that way I can easily look back on what I was working on earlier in the week or remind myself what I have upcoming in the week.

For more on iOS 18, here's what you need to know about  iOS 18.5  and  iOS 18.4 . You can also check out our iOS 18  cheat sheet  and everything to know about  iOS 26 .