Apple and Google don’t always play nicely, but it’s actually pretty easy to save Apple Notes to a Google or Gmail account.

The notes you create in the Apple Notes app are most likely saved to iCloud or locally on your device. In addition to these options, you can also create and save notes to your Google account from inside the Notes app.

This tutorial shows you how to add your Google or Gmail account to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac and use it as a potential location to store your notes.

Here are the steps to add your Google account to the iOS or iPadOS Notes app:

While you can create text and image-based notes in the Gmail section, you can’t add a sketch, checklist, table, or other such extra features of the Notes app. For these, you’ll have to create the note inside iCloud or the local On My iPhone folder.

You can follow the same steps to add other services like Outlook or Yahoo to the iOS Notes app.

Further, you can easily set Google as your default location for all the notes you create inside the Apple Notes app.

You might want to add the same Google account in the macOS Notes app as this will ensure the notes you create on your iPhone under the Gmail section sync to your Mac as well.

Here’s how to add your Google account to Mac and save notes to it:

Now you know how to add your Google account to your iPhone and create notes in it. You can add this account to your other Apple devices to ensure the notes sync and stay updated across devices. If you have a Windows PC, you can access these notes inside Gmail in a web browser.

Ankur has been an Apple user for more than seven years and focuses on iPhone how-tos, fixes, and tips. When not writing, he likes to watch The Office repeatedly. Ankur also loves tech videos, comedy and romantic movies, old songs, pizza, and chicken.

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