If you’re like most people, you keep your photos and videos on your iPhone notes app. But if you ever want to share them with someone else, you have to copy them off the app and then paste them into a photo or video editing program. Fortunately, there’s a way to save your photos and videos from the Notes app to your photo library on your iPhone. Here’s how:

  1. Open the Notes app and sign in.
  2. Click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen (the ones that look like a check mark). This will show you a list of all of your notes and videos.
  3. On the right side of this list, click on “Photos.” This will open a new window with all of your photos and videos organized by date and time.
  4. To save a photo or video, just drag it into the “Photos” window and then click on “Save.”

If you’re a heavy user of Apple’s Notes app on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed a slightly weird behavior: unlike almost every other app, if you take a photo in Notes, it isn’t saved to the Photos app.

I’d guess this is so photos of things like shopping lists don’t clog up your Camera Roll, but if you use Notes as more of a journal than a to-do list, you might want any photos you take while writing a note to get saved. Here’s how to do it.

Go to Settings > Notes.

Under Media, toggle Save to Photos on.

Now when you take a photo in Notes, it will end up in the Photos app too.

This, to me at least, is a much more natural behavior for how I use Notes.