How to use a different text font in Apple’s Notes app

Tired of Apple’s San Francisco font in Apple Notes? You can therefore change it easily and simply.

The Notes application has made significant progress in terms of quality, so much so that it is the default option for iPhone, iPad and Mac users. Being a native application makes it extraordinary and in case you haven’t noticed, with iOS 18 it presents several improvements that we leave you here. Apple recognizes that there are also other notes apps that can work perfectly, but This time we bring you something interesting. Do you feel that The San Francisco font was already sufficient and you would like to change it to another? Let’s see how to change text font in Notes app.

Why use a different font in Apple Notes?

It is not the same Notes application for multiple versions of the operating system. It’s more useful and therefore changing the font is something a word processor or any text-focused application should incorporate. Whether you use Apple Notes to write something quick and easy, for your class notes or to save important informationit is appropriate to give it a suitable format in case you want to present them or want to give them a touch of personalization.

Apple Notes app

The only way to change the font of text in the Notes app is via macOS. On iPhone and iPad it is not possible to create an origin, but don’t worry. We’ll show you the process on Mac below, then advise you how to use different fonts on iOS or iPadOS..

Change Apple’s San Francisco font to another in macOS Notes

Show available fonts in macOS Notes

1. Open Apple Notes
2. Choose an existing note or create a new one
3. Select the text whose font we want to change or choose all text with Command + A
4. Press and hold the Control key and click the text or directly right click
5. A menu will be displayed, choose the Font type option, then Show font types
6. Select font type, style and sizeif you know the name of the source, look it up immediately
7. If you’re undecided, click on each font you’d like to preview or click on the click the three-dot button and choose Show Preview
8. Confirm your choice and you will see how the font of the selected text changes

Fonts available in the macOS Font Catalog

If you want a font seen on a website like Dafont you will need to download it and add it to the Font Book (Type Catalog), the macOS font directory.

Note with changed fonts

How to change the font of a note on iOS or iPadOS

As we mentioned at the beginning, you can use a few tricks to enter text and change the font on iPhone or iPad, but from the Mail app you can then copy and paste that text into the note. You can also copy text from a desired source into a word processor like Pages or on the web. and paste it into the body of the note.

Even if it’s not the best What can you do to have the desired font directly in Notes We recommend the following:

1. Create a new note from macOS
2. Go to page of Lorem Ipsum to get relleno text
3. Copy Lorem Ipsum and paste individual lines or paragraphs of text into the body of your note.
4. By following the steps described above, change the font type for each line or paragraph of text
5. If you have Once iCloud sync with Notes is enabled, these changes will appear immediately on your iPhone or iPad
6. When you want to write in iOS or iPadOS Notes with a new font Just write it between the lines of the filler text you created in step 3
7. Remove filler text you no longer need and keep your text with the changed font, copy and paste it into a new note
8. Add the finishing touches by copying and pasting different fonts if desired

Change the font of your notes on macOS and view them on iOS or iPadOS

Make sure you have different fill texts with the fonts you like the mostcopy and paste as many times as necessary until the text is filled with different fonts.

On iPhone and iPad, this is the only solution because Apple did not want to implement a font catalog in its mobile operating systems. Next year would undoubtedly be an ideal improvement for iOS 19 and iPadOS 19. We hope this tutorial has been useful to you, your notes could now be more formal or with a more personal touch.

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