TIPS

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Testing Apple Notes' Markdown Support

• Federico

I’ve been playing around with the Notes app’s new Markdown import and export features in the iOS and iPadOS 26 developer betas and, much to my surprise, the functionality is more solid than I originally expected. For this week’s issue of the newsletter, I’m going to share a series of tips that have helped me make sense of this new integration and how to make the most of it.

For starters, you should know that I’ve only been able to access the ‘Import to Notes’ feature from the menu bar on iPadOS 26, and I haven’t found a way to import Markdown documents in the Notes app on the iPhone. Hopefully this will change at some point during the beta cycle. On the iPad, head over with your pointer or finger to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar, then click File ⇾ Import to Notes. Doing so will reveal a Files picker that lets you import any existing Markdown file from your device into the Notes app. Once a document is imported, it’ll be automatically converted to rich text (with some limitations, more on this below) and placed in an ‘Imported Notes’ folder in the app’s sidebar.