In this brief tutorial, we’ll show you how to add divider lines to a note on iPhone, iPad, and Mac to clearly separate text blocks, drawings, and media for a cleaner, organized, and visually polished layout.

iOS 27, iPadOS 27 , and macOS 27 Golden Gate added a small but thoughtful addition to the Notes app. It lets you add a thin horizontal line to divide blocks of text, drawings, file attachments, or whatever else you add to your note, like a checklist or table .

Before this update, I often found myself adding a line by tapping the dash (-) key dozens of times. And then I’d copy and paste that line in another spot if needed. Thankfully, all these time-consuming workarounds are now a thing of the past.

Mac

Open the macOS 27 Notes app and go into an existing note or create a new one.

Click where you want to place the insertion point.…