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Jul 26 / innocent114

How-To: Change the Notes Font on your iPhone

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I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one that thinks the iPhone notes font is pretty ugly unattractive. So it was so fantastic when I accidentally figured out how to change the font of my iPhone notes. Let me share so you too can enjoy the sweet sights of a pretty note-taking font.

    1.Open the Notes App.
    2.Now Create a new note and type a few words.

    3.While the keyboard is still showing, locate the globe icon near the spacebar.
    4.Now press the button located on the right of your screen, right below the backspace button.

    5.Upon pressing this button, you should have immediately seen the difference in font on your screen.

    6.Now just press the globe icon again to return to the English font of the notes app and VIOLA! A pretty Arial font for all of your notes.

    Unfortunately, this rule is not applied to each note after than so these quick steps have to be performed for each new note you draft.

    The font changes do remain when you close the notes and the app within the particular note you changed the font.

    Well hey, at least now you have pretty notes in a great font!

    If you don’t see the globe option, try this:
    Here are the steps to fix that:

    1. Go to “Settings”
    2. Tap “Keyboard”.
    3. Tap “International Keyboard”.
    4. Tap “Chinese Simplified”.
    5. Tap “Pinyin”.

    Then follow the steps below. Let me know if this works!

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  • Trickshot Games

    Actually what that is doing is changing it to the Japanese font set, and it just so happens that the Japanese font set's english font is Arial.

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    Ya, I know…hmmm I should probably add that as kind of a P.S. or a side note, what do you think?

  • Pjorgensen

    No globe icon on my keyboard. Is this a iOS 4.x feature?

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    Hmmm…I bet the button is just different. Looking for my iPhone 4 now….

  • http://twitter.com/pchukwura pchukwura

    On my iPhone 4, I see the same globe icon. Send us a screenshot of what you have and we will tell you what to do from there.

  • Simonptn

    I have no Globe button … did this disappear when I backed up from my old phone?

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    I will add this to the article as soon as I get the chance, but I think what is happening that a particular setting is not activated on your iPhone if you can not see the globe icon.

    Here are the steps to fix that:

    1. Go to “Settings”
    2. Tap “Keyboard”.
    3. Tap “International Keyboard”.
    4. Tap “Chinese Simplified”.
    5. Tap “Pinyin”.

    Then follow the steps below. Let me know if this works!

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    I will add this to the article as soon as I get the chance, but I think what is happening that a particular setting is not activated on your iPhone if you can not see the globe icon.

    Here are the steps to fix that:

    1. Go to “Settings”
    2. Tap “Keyboard”.
    3. Tap “International Keyboard”.
    4. Tap “Chinese Simplified”.
    5. Tap “Pinyin”.

    Then follow the steps below. Let me know if this works!

  • Simonptn

    I have no Globe button … did this disappear when I backed up from my old phone?

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    I will add this to the article as soon as I get the chance, but I think what is happening that a particular setting is not activated on your iPhone if you can not see the globe icon.

    Here are the steps to fix that:

    1. Go to “Settings”
    2. Tap “Keyboard”.
    3. Tap “International Keyboard”.
    4. Tap “Chinese Simplified”.
    5. Tap “Pinyin”.

    Then follow the steps below. Let me know if this works!

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    I will add this to the article as soon as I get the chance, but I think what is happening that a particular setting is not activated on your iPhone if you can not see the globe icon.

    Here are the steps to fix that:

    1. Go to “Settings”
    2. Tap “Keyboard”.
    3. Tap “International Keyboard”.
    4. Tap “Chinese Simplified”.
    5. Tap “Pinyin”.

    Then follow the steps below. Let me know if this works!

  • Black_winged_angel

    Very helpful. Thank you!

  • Shahinaz

    or you can go to setting….choose Notes …. choose Helvetica & that’s it.
     

  • http://www.simpleleap.com SimpleLeap Software

    That’s because of an update. This article was written a while ago.

  • Lily

    thanks!!!!! works like a charm