You will soon be able to create and edit tables in Evernote on iOS

Evernote Table Editing
Evernote Table Editing (Image credit: Evernote)

What you need to know

  • Table creation and editing is coming to Evernote on iOS.
  • The feature is expected to roll out over the next couple of weeks.

The latest update to Evernote is finally going to let users fully work with tables right from their iPhone.

In a blog post, the company announced that you'll now be able to create, edit, and manage tables like you can on Mac, Windows, and the web app.

For the first time, you can create, edit, and manage tables on mobile devices just like you can with Evernote for Mac, Windows, and web. Insert and delete columns and rows right from your smartphone or tablet, and merge cells within your table. Change how table cell contents are aligned, and even experiment with different cell background colors!

The company, to help users get started with the new feature, posted a video to its YouTube channel.

Now you can create, edit, and manage tables on your mobile devices just like you can with Evernote for Mac, Windows, and Web.On your smartphone or tablet, you can insert and delete columns and rows, and merge cells within your table. Change how table cell contents are aligned, and even experiment with different cell background colors!

The company says that the feature has been long requested by its users as far back as the early days of Evernote on iOS.

This is a capability that our customers have been asking for since the early days of Evernote on iPhone. You've always been able to edit the contents of tables on your phone or tablet, but it's reasonable to expect the mobile experience to be similar to what you've long enjoyed on desktop. We heard you! With Evernote 10.6, we've brought table editing on mobile to parity with desktop devices. And not just that: Looking across the competitive landscape, we are confident that these new table editing capabilities are best-in-class for mobile.

Looking for even more options for notetaking on the iPad? Check out our list of the Best Notetaking Apps for iPad and Apple Pencil in 2021.

Evernote 10.6 on iOS, according to the company, is expected to roll out over the next two weeks. Users will be able to download the update through the App Store.

Joe Wituschek
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Joe Wituschek is a Contributor at iMore. With over ten years in the technology industry, one of them being at Apple, Joe now covers the company for the website. In addition to covering breaking news, Joe also writes editorials and reviews for a range of products. He fell in love with Apple products when he got an iPod nano for Christmas almost twenty years ago. Despite being considered a "heavy" user, he has always preferred the consumer-focused products like the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPhone 13 mini. He will fight to the death to keep a mini iPhone in the lineup. In his free time, Joe enjoys video games, movies, photography, running, and basically everything outdoors.