Apple released iOS 9.3 yesterday, the latest version of the operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Among the many exciting new features that this new version includes, one is the improved Notes application. From now on we can protect our annotations with a password, which will also allow us to lock / unlock them with Touch ID on devices that have a fingerprint sensor. Protecting the notes in iOS 9.3 is not a complicated process, but it is possible that some user does not know very well how to do it. Here we will teach you everything you need to know to password protect notes in the native Apple app.
How to Password Protect iOS 9 Notes
- The first thing we have to do is open the settings and access the Notes section.
- Once inside the Notes section, we enter Password.
- As you can see in the previous screenshot, in that section we can activate the Touch ID and add a password. The password that we add can be any; it is totally independent of the Apple ID.
- Once the password has been added, we have to protect the notes we want, so we are now going to the Notes application.
- We enter the note that we want to protect.
- We tap on the share button (
).
- As you can see in the screenshot, the option to block the note appears. We played on it.
- Finally, we have to enter the password that we configured in step 3. We will see an animation and it will already be protected
- A padlock will also appear at the top. When it is open, it will not be protected. When it is closed, no one can see it without putting the password or our fingerprint.
IMPORTANT: to be able to access the notes that we have protected with a password we will have to do it with the latest versions of Apple operating systems. If we have an iPhone with iOS 9.3, we protect a password and then we want to view it on, for example, a jailbroken iPad, we will not be able to open it, since the latest jailbreak available was released for iOS 9.1. The same with OS X: we will have to have OS X 10.11.4 installed on our Mac to be able to see the notes.
Having explained the above, I have to comment on something that I did not like about this system: it is not that it seems bad, but I think it has a shortcoming, and that is that it should not be possible to edit or delete a locked note, or at least it should be an option for it. In any case, being able to protect the notes with a password is an interesting novelty that is missed in other applications. Have you already tried it?
Fatal implemented. What they should have done is that to access the NOTES App it was opened with a password or with Touch ID (this to begin with), second that within the APP one could also do what they have entered (put the ones you want with a padlock) .
But this accessing the notes as it was until now ... Well, what nonsense,? WHAT I WANT IS THAT NOBODY CAN OPEN THE APP NOTES gentlemen of Apple.
In truth no news, this step I'm going to android.
Good luck…
Well, it seems great to me, the one who owes nothing, fears nothing, obviously there are some confidential notes, the form seems very correct.
Good luck with Android (although I know it won't).
Well the truth is that I do not plan to update now or later, they have thrown tremendous update nonsense. The best part is that it is totally unnecessary. Every day I use 1Password to save the notes that I think deserve it there with full Touch ID protection in addition to the fact that I can access in the same app everything that you already know that can be done with 1Password, definitely much more complete than this attempt Apple in notes. Incredible that these kinds of things are being done by now.
Well, the app with id to open seems a bit of a pain to me ... better this way ... only the one you are interested in blocking and not the entire app per system ...