After two years as an iPhone unique, Apple’s Journal app will quickly be obtainable on Mac and iPad. Apple introduced at WWDC on Monday that its newest macOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates will help the Journal app, which helps customers observe their every day actions and experiences with pictures, movies, and voice memos.
“Journal involves Mac, making it simple to seize and write about on a regular basis moments and particular occasions when inspiration strikes,” Apple mentioned within the macOS 26 press launch. “On Mac, it’s simple to kind lengthy, considerate entries and examine them on a map. Customers can maintain a number of journals for numerous features of life, that are all synced throughout Apple units.”
On iPad, Apple says that Journal customers can use their finger or Apple Pencil to “incorporate drawings and handwriting” alongside their journal entries. I can particularly see the enchantment on iPad as somebody who usually provides doodles and illustrations to my very own journals. With the ability to use the app on a bigger display screen may even seemingly really feel nearer to utilizing conventional paper journals, which may sway some individuals to change to a digital expertise.
iPad and Mac customers might want to wait a short while to check out Journal — whereas developer betas can be found now, public iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 betas aren’t coming till subsequent month, with a full launch anticipated this fall.
