by wltr on 6/5/25, 4:47 AM
Okay, am I the only one who didn’t know that (apparently) the next iOS version is going to be 26, not 19?
I assume, they’ll start following a year of release both for macOS and iOS, so it would be easier to know for non-techies. But my first reaction was ‘em, 8 years into the future? Looks weird, isn’t it? Maybe that’s some kind of a joke.’
by lurk2 on 6/4/25, 9:28 PM
I would not recommend investing in the iOS Notes ecosystem. There is no way to export these notes with their metadata and media intact without using iCloud. If you need a note-taking app, go with Joplin instead; it supports Markdown, has both iOS and desktop clients, and supports self-hosted syncing.
by tlhunter on 6/4/25, 10:25 PM
by ale42 on 6/4/25, 9:27 PM
I first thought it was some kind of extrapolation like... at the rate features are currently being added, Markdown will land in ~2032 with iOS 26... just noticed about the new version numbering, I missed that news!
by afavour on 6/5/25, 12:03 AM
Kind of amazed that this was the way I found out about Apple’s new OS versioning system
by keyboardJones on 6/5/25, 1:40 AM
I made a feature request for this very thing within the latest version cycle. I imagine others have as well. Maybe they listened, maybe they didn’t, but here’s hoping!
Edit: I fell for the headline. This is only to export in markdown, not directly write in markdown. So close, yet so far.
by promiseofbeans on 6/5/25, 12:03 AM
I thought the title was an Onion-esque joke at first, not realising they've changed the naming scheme
by mdeeks on 6/4/25, 10:33 PM
I really hope Apple Notes makes this something that's opt-in and I don't have to see. Thankfully it sounds like it is an export only feature.
I think there is a bifurcation of people who like markdown and people who like rich text. And both groups have strong opinions. Apple Notes was my goto rich text editor. Fingers crossed that they aren't making this worse for us.
Related: I switched away from Bear notes because personally I find markdown hideous to look at. This post made me go back and check on it today and it looks like Bear notes now supports hiding markdown right after you type it. This seems like a really good compromise, though I still don't like that I see it when I place my cursor on it. Worth a shot if you're a "never markdown" person like me.
by delduca on 6/5/25, 12:26 PM
by bonaldi on 6/4/25, 9:13 PM
> Instead of tapping buttons to bold text or create headers, users could type *bold* or # Header directly into their notes.
Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too.
Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that is great, so long as I don't have to ever see, use or be aware of it.
by howmayiannoyyou on 6/4/25, 9:40 PM
Notes: I'm stuck with this and wish I could leave, but the combo of security and attachments leaves me with few options. Notes is buggy, lacks interoperability, has crap AI integration, etc. BUT... the real pain is Apple Messages. The inability create folders, rules, etc. is insanity. At a time when most comms are instant why would you not offer users the same level of organization they enjoy with email, or with other IM platforms?
by andy_xor_andrew on 6/4/25, 11:24 PM
I'm suspecting this is because future Apple Intelligence features (when they actually get released) will allow LLMs to write notes, and of course we all know markdown is well understood by LLMs.
by devinprater on 6/5/25, 2:25 PM
This will be pretty nice for accessibility too. Hopefully this leads to Markdown everywhere in the OS, and that follower-OS' add it too. For accessibility, it's great because I can have my screen reader announce punctuation, so it reads star star this star star, instead of no indication of italics at all. Granted, that could always be made better, using speech parameters like pitch and speed to indicate formatting, but that's not found a good home outside of Emacspeak.
by zamadatix on 6/4/25, 9:41 PM
The MacRumors article claims Markdown input formatting but they source this from a 9to5Mac article which only seems to claim Markdown exporting.
Edit: The article has since been corrected.
by debuggerson on 6/5/25, 3:22 AM
This might be the stepping stone toward AI integration, as I believe every phone will soon come with an AI agent that helps execute multiple tasks and manage files internally. Just like Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior VP of services mentioned, the future of phones will look very different from what we know now.
I expect it has more function like converting to other formats.
by cyberge99 on 6/4/25, 10:26 PM
I switched from Evernote to Upnote and now that I have X-url-callbacks and I can link into notes, I’ve found my note utopia.
by xer0x on 6/4/25, 11:47 PM
Half expected to see this on Daring fireball
by dadrock on 6/4/25, 10:25 PM
Interesting, considering MS just announced the same exact feature in the new Notepad app on Windows 11 last week.
by amai on 6/5/25, 4:38 PM
by DevKoala on 6/4/25, 10:37 PM
I would have killed for this back in 2022.
I take all of my notes on ChatGPT now, and for more structured data I have built specialized tools/agents, and even small front ends like for my portfolio management track.
It’s crazy how different my world used to be back then; note apps feel so primitive now.
by puttycat on 6/4/25, 10:28 PM
by RollingRo11 on 6/5/25, 12:17 AM
> It sounds like the feature will only add support for exporting text with markdown formatting and not writing in markdown directly
That's a shame. I was hoping for at least the option to edit in markdown (and praying for LaTeX support too)
by trumbitta2 on 6/5/25, 11:44 AM
What I find outrageous is that it's export-only. No writing in Markdown.
by crossroadsguy on 6/5/25, 7:02 AM
I just want to know what are some better iOS keyboards that don't send home everything I type. Because I am pretty sure that shit is not improving.
And oh.. the obligatory:
MarkText™ - For The First Time In An Apple App
by ChrisArchitect on 6/5/25, 1:20 AM
by xenodium on 6/5/25, 12:22 PM
by bschne on 6/5/25, 12:33 PM
> It sounds like the feature will only add support for exporting text with markdown formatting and not writing in markdown directly
buried the lede a bit there
by 90s_dev on 6/5/25, 3:11 AM
Sometimes I wonder if there's a place for me in the software economy.
Then I remember that some people's jobs is just to guess what Apple will do next.
by rcarmo on 6/5/25, 6:47 AM
Just for export, apparently, so… kind of pointless given the amount of amazing Markdown note taking apps on iOS.
by eviks on 6/5/25, 5:42 AM
Instead of going primitive with md would be better to have the rich format more open and widely supported
by htk on 6/4/25, 11:33 PM
I hope they also fix the cursor jumping bug when typing on tables. The bug's been there for years.
by briandoll on 6/4/25, 10:24 PM
I've been all-in on Bear for iOS and MacOS and have never once missed Apple Notes functionality
by BenFranklin100 on 6/5/25, 3:23 AM
Microsoft needs to get to work pronto and add native Markdown support to OneNote.
by nkmnz on 6/4/25, 9:28 PM
proper access to pdfs already stored in notes would be good, too.
by faizmokh on 6/5/25, 2:15 AM
I would ditch Obsidian in a heartbeat once there's a Markdown support in Apple Notes.
by xyst on 6/4/25, 11:07 PM
Apple really hates any major versions with 9
by singularity2001 on 6/5/25, 11:45 AM
any conflict with #tags?
by paxys on 6/5/25, 12:45 AM
Happy to get markdown support but I really hope the Notes app stays basic and away from LLM drivel.
by yapyap on 6/5/25, 12:10 AM
iOS 18 to 26, genius
by pvo50555 on 6/5/25, 6:13 AM
I am consistently shocked at how bad Apple Notes is. I like the features it has and I like the iCloud sync between devices... I use it daily. But it's so damn buggy. It's a notes app! Why do new lines on a moderately-long note cause half the text to disappear until I hit the carriage return a few times?
I also wish it simply converted copied text to plaintext by default rather than trying to preserve formatting.
by whatever1 on 6/5/25, 1:19 AM
Markdown is the defacto language of the llms. Between this and the python library from Microsoft that converts all of their formats to markdown I think that markdown officially has won the markup language war.
by opan on 6/5/25, 1:18 AM
After reading the comments here about the new numbering, I wonder if skipping 19 was part of the reasoning for the change. They may not want to be associated with COVID-19.