How to view and report changes to a shared note in the Notes app

The Notes app, which comes with our iPhone, iPad and Mac allows much more than writing down the shopping or reading list . One of its most useful features is the ability to share a note with multiple people so that everyone can edit, change, and contribute. In such a situation it is really important to see what changes have been made to the content, which, fortunately, is very simple.

Highlighting changes and notices for shared notes

When we share a note, what we do is give another person permission to edit and make changes to the text and content of the note. A most useful option in these circumstances is to know what has changed since we last saw the note. This highlighting of changes, which we can activate from the app itself, will mark the added or edited texts for a few seconds with a yellow shading, with which we will have a very visual idea of ​​the situation. Also, optionally, we can receive a notification every time some of the participants to the shared note make a change.

To activate these options we must have a shared note, so let’s quickly review the steps to share one:

1. We open the Notesapp on our iPhone, iPad or Mac.
2. We create a new note or select an existing one.
3. We touch the button in the form of three dots within a circle. (Only on iPhone and iPad).
4. Click on Share noterepresented with a person and a “+”.
5. We send the invitation via Messages or copy the link to send it through any service.

Well, we already have a shared note. Now let’s see how to enable and disable change highlighting as well as modification notifications. The process is practically identical on the iPhone, iPad or Mac and is as follows:

1. We open the Notesapp on our iPhone, iPad or Mac.
2. We select the shared note.
3. We touch the button in the shape of a person with a small tick.
4. We activate or deactivate Highlight all changes.
5. We activate or deactivate Hide notices.

Let us bear in mind that by default the notes are shared with the highlighting of changes deactivated and the notifications activated, so if we want to make any changes to this behavior we must follow the steps that we have just seen.

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That easy. Thus, when several people edit and participate in the same note, we can have a better reference of the changes that have been made. A function that, although it has a moderate precision, allows us to get an idea of ​​the situation very quickly and intuitively.