Create Quick Notes from the Lock Screen
If you have an iPad and an Apple Pencil, you can quickly start creating a note just by tapping your Apple Pencil right on your device’s lock screen.
Notes has the home field advantage here, as this is one of these privileges that Apple can give to its own apps that you’ll likely never see anywhere else. While iPhone users don’t have the benefit of the Apple Pencil (yet), a quick note can also similarly be brought up from the Control Center, even if the iPhone is locked.
In the Notes settings, you can also choose to always create a new note when you do this, or resume the last note that you were accessing. The latter can be handy if you just want to keep a note open and add more content to it as your day progresses, like a journal, and you can also set up Notes to automatically create a new note after a certain amount of time has elapsed since it was last updated. It’s another one of these really useful but under-appreciated features in Apple Notes.