iOS 12 Notes App Lets You Directly Scan a Document with 3D Touch

iOS 12 brings a host ofnew featuresto the table, especially considering the fact that Apple was mostly focused onperformance upgrades and improvementsafter iOS 11 turned out to be agiant steaming mess of bugs.

There are a bunch of new features scattered around in iOS 12, and one of these will prove especially useful to anyone who likes to keep scanned copies of their receipts and documents on their iPhone.

The Notes app in iOS 12 now has an additional option inside the 3D Touch menu called “Scan Document.” If the name wasn’t enough of a giveaway, this option lets you quickly scan a document and create a note from it.

While this is definitely a pretty useful feature, there’s a slight drawback here. The documents you scan with this feature automatically get added to a new note. This might sound fine, but this can become annoying if you want to scan multiple documents to one note, or add them to an existing note.

That said, you can always cut the scanned documents from one note and paste them into another, so this is only a minor inconvenience. Anyway, the feature is probably meant for people looking to quickly scan a document, in which case it’s perfectly okay to have it go into a new note.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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