Four New Features Coming to Apple Reminders and Notes

Four productivity improvements are coming to Apple Notes and Reminders in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26.

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In Reminders, Apple Intelligence can now suggest relevant tasks and items automatically, such as to-dos pulled from emails or notes, or grocery items based on your habits and patterns. These suggestions are contextual, personalized, and designed to reduce the friction of capturing tasks manually.

Beyond that, Reminders can now intelligently organize your lists by automatically categorizing related tasks into grouped sections—such as separating groceries, errands, or work-related items—without the need for manual sorting.

One of the standout features coming to the Notes app is the ability to record phone conversations directly from the Phone app. These recordings are not only saved to Notes, but are also transcribed automatically, making it easy to reference or share a summary of the call later.

In addition, Apple is introducing support for Markdown export, allowing users to save notes as Markdown (.md) files for greater compatibility with third-party writing tools or for archiving notes in a clean, portable format. Previously, the only export format option was PDF.

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Top Rated Comments

matt_and_187_like_this Avatar
6 weeks ago
markdown export of notes is the biggest feature of this release.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
spiggott Avatar
6 weeks ago
+1 for Markdown

Anyone know if Markdown import will be supported?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Robert.Walter Avatar
6 weeks ago
So if someone tells me to GFY I’ll get a reminder so I don’t forget to do so?

That’s very thoughtful.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
escargot3 Avatar
6 weeks ago
Recording phone calls with transcription into notes was already a feature of iOS 18. The transcribing part seems to be expanding to more countries though which is good.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
verdi1987 Avatar
6 weeks ago
It doesn’t appear we can compose notes using Markdown, which is disappointing.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Internaut Avatar
6 weeks ago

It doesn’t appear we can compose notes using Markdown, which is disappointing.
Agreed. I don't think Apple Notes is dragging me away from Obsidian anytime soon.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)