I’d like to change the CREATION date/time of Apple Notes, so I can sort notes according to their creation date. I accidentally modified an older note which was filed with similar notes at the same time, but has now been resorted and is out of place and easily overlooked. How can I change the CREATION date/time of Apple Notes? Can it be sent to Apple as a suggestion?
There's no way through the Notes app to change that date. If there's one to change it using Terminal or some other tool, I wouldn't know.
My solution for making sure I can always sort notes by date (in any app) is to start the name with the date in this format: 20251003. That's today's date. So, a journal entry might look like this: "20251003 Journal." If you sort alphabetically, this should always keep things in date order.
You can let Apple know what you'd like to see here:
There's no way through the Notes app to change that date. If there's one to change it using Terminal or some other tool, I wouldn't know.
My solution for making sure I can always sort notes by date (in any app) is to start the name with the date in this format: 20251003. That's today's date. So, a journal entry might look like this: "20251003 Journal." If you sort alphabetically, this should always keep things in date order.
You can let Apple know what you'd like to see here:
You can’t change the edited or created dates but you can sort your notes on either the Edited Date or the Created Date. You should consider using the latter.
Actually, this still technically doesn’t solve the problem, because the edit was accidental (the notes app was glitching). It would still be great to be able to modify the “edit” date to force it back to its previous last edited date. But it seems we figured out that isn’t possible to do in iOS.
Yes, in addition to changing the “sort by” setting to either created or edited date (below reply, thanks), this is also a good idea. If sorting by name, it would effectively sort them by date. Thanks.
Ah, yes! This is what I wanted. The idea of changing the create/edit dates was a means to manual sorting. I missed the “sort by” settings, thank you.
How to change the CREATION date/time of Apple Notes?
