Apple could copy this Samsung Notes feature in iOS 18

Apple has been offering the Notes app in iOS right from the first iPhone. Since then, the Cupertino-based tech giant has added a lot of features to it, such as the ability to insert images and tables in notes. However, Apple’s Notes app is way behind Samsung’s Notes app that you get with Galaxy smartphones and tablets, with the one from the South Korean tech giant offering way more features. Well, Apple now seems to be copying a feature from the Samsung Notes app for the company’s Notes app for iOS.

According to a new report from Apple Insider, Apple’s Notes app in iOS 18 will allow people to record audio from within a note and add that file to the note. Samsung has been offering this feature in Samsung Notes on Android for some time now. By attaching an audio file (voice recording), people can add more context to a note. Reportedly, the interface for recording audio in the Notes app will look similar to the interface of Apple’s Voice Memo app. That’s not all though.

The publication claims that Apple’s Notes app in iOS 18 will also offer a feature called “Math Notes.” Reportedly, it will bring three functionalities. First, it could allow people to insert calculations from the Calculator app on the platform into a note. Second, it will offer support for properly displaying mathematical notations in a note. Third, it will allow people to write/type mathematical equations and then solve those for them. Microsoft OneNote offers similar capabilities in the form of Math Assistant.

Apple's Notes app on iPhone could get more useful for academics

When you couple Math Notes with the ability to record audio and attach audio files, Apple’s Notes app could become an amazing tool for academics. While Samsung Notes offers the ability to record audio and attach audio files, it lacks a feature similar to Math Notes. We hope that Samsung adds the capability to insert mathematical equations and to solve them to Samsung Notes to keep it on par with Apple’s Notes app in iOS 18, which is expected to arrive later this year with iPhone 16.