Getting started with memoir
Create your first journal entry, find your way around memoir, and choose how much you want to capture.
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Learn how to capture a memory, find it again, and keep it private. New to memoir? Start with your first entry.
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Keep a one-line-a-day journal in memoir
Start a small daily diary habit with one sentence, a mood, and easy ways to revisit your memories.
Understand memoir+ and restore purchases
Review memoir+ features, restore access through Apple, and find subscription management information.
Capture your day
Write and edit journal entries
Learn how to capture short or long diary entries, revisit them, and work with dates in memoir.
Add photos and stickers to your journal
Keep photos, use the camera and sticker tools, and revisit images alongside your words in memoir.
Record voice journal entries
Capture and replay voice memories in memoir, including microphone access and recording troubleshooting.
Add sketches to journal entries
Use drawings to capture an idea or a small detail, and keep sketches with your memories in memoir.
Keep places with your memories
Understand recorded locations, permission choices, and finding journal entries associated with a place in memoir.
Bring shared content and pasted media into memoir
Use Save to memoir from another app, choose a journal, and review pasted text, links or media before saving.
Save a draft and return to it
Understand unsent journal drafts, attachments, and what changes when you save an entry in memoir.
Change a journal entry’s date and time
Backdate a memory, correct a saved entry’s timestamp, and find it in the right day in memoir.
View, zoom and arrange journal photos
Open full-screen photos, zoom into details, and arrange photo attachments before saving a memoir entry.
Turn voice recordings into journal text
Understand speech recognition for voice entries, permissions, and what to check when a transcript is missing in memoir.
Reflect and find
Track moods in your journal
Add emoji mood check-ins, understand missing days, and revisit recorded mood patterns in memoir.
Revisit memories with Reflection
Explore On This Day, mood patterns, streaks, and ways to return to your saved entries in memoir.
Find journal entries with Search
Search memoir by words, dates, moods, people, places, and media to find a saved memory.
Find past memories with On This Day
Rediscover entries from the same calendar date in previous years and open their original context in memoir.
Understand journal streaks and writing activity
Read streaks, captured days and activity summaries in memoir without confusing them with the number of entries.
Organize and personalize
Create and organize multiple journals
Use separate journals, choose a cover, and move entries into the journal that fits in memoir.
Use and customize journaling prompts
Find a starting question, use the prompt deck, and adjust available prompt options in memoir.
Set journaling reminders
Choose writing reminder times, understand notification permissions, and adjust prompted notifications in memoir.
Use Focus Time for journaling
Make space for a writing session, review Focus Time settings, and understand optional distraction controls in memoir.
Customize entry fonts and appearance
Find memoir’s writing font, appearance, and haptic feedback settings and choose a comfortable reading experience.
Move an entry to another journal
Move a saved memory between journals in memoir without copying and pasting its text or rebuilding its attachments.
Privacy and your data
Sync your journal with iCloud
Enable optional iCloud Sync with memoir+, understand the Apple account requirement, and troubleshoot missing memories.
Export and import a memoir backup
Keep a copy of your journal library, restore a memoir backup, and understand supported import formats.
Protect your journal with a passcode and Face ID
Set an app passcode, review supported device authentication, and understand where memoir stores journal data.
Review Health and Spotlight permissions
Understand memoir’s optional HealthKit and Spotlight settings before sharing information with system features.
Use memoir offline and manage storage
Understand local journal storage, offline capture, attachment space, and what to check before removing the app.
Beyond the main app
Journal from Apple Watch
Use memoir on Apple Watch for quick text, voice, mood, and prompt entries, with companion transfer guidance.
Use memoir widgets
Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for quick capture, prompts, memories, and journal activity.
Control Focus Time from Apple Watch
Start, pause, resume and finish a manual memoir Focus Time session from your paired Apple Watch.
Fix Apple Watch entries waiting to transfer
Check memoir Watch delivery status, retry queued captures and find the destination journal on iPhone.
Use memoir on iPad
Write on a larger screen, browse journal photos and keep iPad memories in sync with your iPhone in memoir.
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