iOS in practice: secure your notes with the new iOS 9.3 features

One of the major new features
d’iOS 9.3, apart from the
night mode, is the possibility ofcreate notes
secure, i.e. locked by a password or
digital identification. With iOS 9, the Notes application had already been

greatly improvedwith support in addition to text,
different media content, drawings, web bookmarks, photos, etc. Thanks to iOS 9.3,
Notes now also serves assafe for information
sensitive. Here is the detailed procedure for protecting a
note :

How to do it

Everything is done in the Notes application. You must choose to create
a new note or go to an already existing note.

There it is via theshare buttonthat the function of
lock is accessible. In the pane then presented, you must click on
"Lock note".

A new page is then displayed on which it is possible to
specify passwordwhich will be necessary to visualize
the note and choose if you wishuse Touch ID
as an alternative means of unlocking. Be careful, if the password is
forgotten and if Touch ID is not activated,there is no other way
to open the noteand access its content. Apple actually
the warning.

Once the password has been chosen and the hint indicated, complete it. The note
is not yet really locked. To do this, you must return to
the note and click onthe open padlock at the top righthas
next to the trash can. The note then actually locks.

A locked note is easily discoverable in the notes list,
since asmall gray padlock accompanies it next to the time.
A rusty note displays asmall open gray padlockau
same place.

To view the contents of a locked note, you must go to the note
in question, then either click on "Show rating", or click
onthe closed padlock at the top rightnext to the trash can.
A window then opens indicating to use Touch ID (if activated) or to
enter the password. Only then does the note display its contents.

To deactivate the locking of a note, you must go to it,
click on the share button and choose "Unlock". The note
then becomes a classic note again, accessible to all, without password or
Touch ID.

There is also a way to engage the lockfrom several notes to
the time(on which the lock has been activated). For this, in
the list of notes, you must click on the button "Lock" with
the little orange padlock at the bottom.

Note that the password is the same for all notes
locked.

Extra tips

As the idea is to keep your notesconfidentialand
protect them from any curious intruder, you must be careful not to let
no information visible in the notes list. For this, in the note in
question,just put a titleand leave space for
then include the content to be protected. So, in the note list, the note
will be titled with any word.

Another tip, it is possible, in the settings of the Notes app,of
change password. To do this, you need to know the old word of
of course. You have to go toSettings > Notes > Password
Passeand click on"Change password".

You must then enter the old and new passwords. So the word
password will be changedfor all notes locked with the old
password.

It is also possible to perform areset procedure
password. But be careful, in this case the new word
pass will be taken into account for the next locked notes only.
The old passwordstays in place for notes
lockedbefore this password reset procedure
passe.

To carry out this procedure, you must return toSettings >
Notes, then go to "Reset Password".

The iCloud account password is then requested, after which the procedure for
reset is done, with a new password to enter and the Touch ID
to activate or not.

Finally, to finish, you should know that alocked note can be
deletedlike a classic note. Hopefully Apple fixes this little
default in a future update.