“Password-protected items in Notes was one of the major features Apple touted for its spring software updates — but it may not be quite what you envisioned,” Dan Moren writes for Six Colors.
“Protecting notes isn’t about assigning a password to each individual item, but rather creating a general password for Notes, and then choosing whether to lock certain notes with that password,” Moren writes. “In other words, it’s an all-or-nothing proposition.”
Moren writes, “The good news is that, at least in my initial experience, iCloud does a perfectly good job of syncing your password and locked note status between your devices, including iOS and OS X.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This is a nice update to Notes. If you haven;t tried Notes in awhile, give it a launch and check it out!
I think the implementation is poorly done.
Notes > Set Password…
Notes > Reset Password…
Notes > Close all Locked Notes
And then on the main Notes window, there’s a padlock button with “Lock this Note” and “Close all Locked Notes”, The button should just be a button that toggles between “Locked” and “Unlocked” states, not have a menu attached to it. And it should prompt to set a password if one is not already set. Why put “Close all Locked Notes” under this button? That belongs in the File menu, since it’s referring to closing detached notes windows.
I really don’t know what’s happening over at Apple. Their user interface work is in the crapper.
Furthermore, the only notes that can be locked are those hosted on iCloud, not on any of my IMAP accounts (of which I mostly use). I guess this makes sense, but introduces an annoying inconsistency with this new feature.
Just be careful with those notes hosted on an IMAP account – They have a tendency to disappear without notice. I always put mine on iCloud since it actually supports notes(they are not emails)…..
You can’t protect a note if it has an image, a placed file or a weblink?!? Hiow $&@%#! stupid is that ?
I can lock them with images, links etc.
I love notes. Use slit all day long. So the lock feature is awesome.
There you go FBI, people want and can use more, not less, encryption on their phones.
Now will you spend tax payer money biting the hand that feeds you or actually doing your job with all the other means you’ve been provided.
There you go FBI, notes is an indication that people want and can use more, not less, encryption on their phones.
Now will you spend tax payer money biting the hand that feeds you or actually doing your job with all the other means you’ve been provided.