In the Notes app from iOS 18 onwards, you can now have collapsible sections to better organise your thoughts and ideas, which is really handy, especially if you’ve got a long list of notes. Here, I’ve got my schedule for the week – just a rough one that I’ve made for this demo – and you’ll see that under each day there are a few different activities that I need to do. But at the moment, this is just a normal note; I could keep adding to this forever, and it would just keep on scrolling.

I want to add some collapsible sections, so what I’m going to do is highlight the name of my section – Monday, to begin with. Once I’ve highlighted it, I’m going to press the text format button below. From here, I can choose different styles of text like Body, Subheading, Heading, and Title. I’m going to choose Heading for this. When you do that, you’ll notice a small grey arrow appearing before Monday – that’s now an automatically collapsible section.

At the moment, it will collapse the whole note because that’s the only heading I’ve got. So, while I’m talking, I’ll quickly go through the other days of the week and format them as headings too. As I do that, you’ll notice those little grey chevrons, and simply tapping on the day of the week and then tapping on that grey chevron will either expand or contract the section I’ve written. That means I’ve now got five collapsible paragraphs, and I can just look at the days that I need to focus on for this week.

But you can actually nest these sections together, meaning you can have a section hidden inside another section. You do this by using the text formatting hierarchy. Up until now, we’ve used headings to create our different sections. If I were to add something at the top and make it a Title, which is bigger than the Heading, that would then collapse everything underneath it until the next Title appears. So, you can nest your sections together using formatting, and just like this, I can minimise the whole week or expand it and jump to the day I want to look at.

This is just one of the many new features in iOS 18 that perhaps go slightly under the radar because they’re not the biggest updates like the cool new icon tinting and Control Centre customisation. But there are actually 100 things in iOS 18 that I’ve discovered which change how you can use your iPhone for the better – some in small ways, some in big ways. If you want to learn more, do check out my eBook below that I’ve made this year: 100 QuickTips for iOS 18 – short, friendly advice to help you make the most of your phone. And of course, check out my channel below for more of these videos.