Swipe actions

On iPhone and iPad, swipe a row to act on it, and choose which commands each swipe shows.

What the colors mean

Every list answers a swipe: notes, notebooks, stacks, tags and saved searches. The buttons are round symbols without words, and the color says what kind of thing a button does — the same everywhere:

• Red takes the row away: delete, delete permanently, ungroup a stack.
• Blue changes the row and leaves it where it is: rename, move, restore, tick off.
• Orange pins — and adds to or removes from Shortcuts.

A command keeps its own symbol and color wherever you put it, so Delete is a red bin whichever side it is on. VoiceOver reads every button's name.

Everything a swipe can do is also in the menu you get when you touch and hold the row, so you can use whichever gesture you prefer. A few commands in the menu ask one more question that a swipe has no room for: Move to Stack asks which stack, and Export asks which format, where a swipe exports Markdown.

Arrange the swipes

1. Go to Settings ▸ Swipe. There is a row for each kind — notes, notebooks, stacks, tags and saved searches — showing its arrangement. Left of the arrow is what a swipe to the right shows; right of the arrow, what a swipe to the left shows.
2. Tap a row. You see an example of the row, then its two sides.
3. Drag the commands into the order you want. Swipe a command to remove it, and use the last row of a side to add one. Each side holds up to three commands.

A side with nothing on it means that swipe does nothing — that's a valid choice.

To put all five kinds back the way they came, tap Restore Default Layout.

The arrangement belongs to the device. A phone and an iPad are held differently, so your iPad can be set up differently from your iPhone.

See Also: The note list: pin, sort, select · Shortcuts · The Trash, and what asks first · Settings