Style Text with Quick Styles

In this video, we’re going to take a look at Quick Styles in the Notes app on the iPhone. This was a new feature that was added with iOS 14. With Quick Styles, what we can quickly do is style our text. We can style it as titled text or subheading text, or even make it bulleted text. Let’s see how Quick Styles works in the Notes app. Let’s go to my iPhone.

Let’s go and open up my Notes app. I swipe over to the left, and we have my Notes app. Now, when we use Quick Styles, we can only apply styling to paragraphs of text. As an example, I have this paragraph here. When I apply a Quick Style, it’s going to apply it to the entire paragraph, not to any individual words. So we do not have to select any words. All we have to do is just place our cursor in the paragraph we want to style. Let’s say I wanted to style mission control up here at the top, all I would have to do is just place my cursor in here, and then I can apply a style to that entire paragraph.

You’re going to notice that I also have some styled words or formatted words. I have here stacked. This is bold. I cannot use a Quick Style for this individual word. I have here mission control in the first sentence of this paragraph. I can not apply a Quick Style to this bold text here because I would have to first select that text, and then I can apply a style to it. Quick Styles only work for paragraphs. They do not work for individual selections.

When I apply a Quick Style, what I’m able to do is apply a style of a title or a subheading or body and a bulleted list or even an ordered list. Those are the different types of styles that we have available to us.

So how do I use Quick Styles? The first thing I need to do is to place my cursor in the paragraph I want to apply a Quick Style to. So let’s go with the quick brown fox jumped. I want to apply a Quick Style to this. I want to quickly style it as a subheading. All I have to do is just place my cursor in here. I do not have to select any text, and then to apply a Quick Style, I just go down to the double A’s here, I long-press on it or tap and hold, and I have a list of all of the Quick Styles that I can use. From here, I just select subheading. And now I’ve just applied that style.

Let’s say I want it to bullet this. Bulleting text is a Quick Style. So again, I have my cursor in here. I do not have to select anything. I tap and hold on the double A’s, and then I go down to the bullet Quick Style. And now we can see this text is bulleted.

So that’s how we use Quick Styles in the Notes app on the iPhone. We can apply Quick Styles to paragraphs of text. We have to just place our cursor in the paragraph that we want to apply a Quick Style to. Once we do that, we just long-press or tap and hold on the double A’s, and you’re going to see a list of all of the different styles that we can apply. Just select the style you want to apply, and it will apply to that entire paragraph of where you placed your cursor.

So that’s how we use Quick Styles in the Notes app on the iPhone.