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I can't resize an image by dragging and dropping in Notes.

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How do I resize an image in Notes?

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In macOS, you can toggle between thumbnails and actual size (max width = 100%) by right-clicking any image in the note and choosing ‘View as Small Images’.

In iOS, hold an image to open the context menu, then choose View As → Small. Alternatively, tap the ellipsis button in the toolbar and choose Attachment Size → Small.

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    Selecting View as Small Images, the image is too small:-(
    – SparkAndShine
    Commented Nov 10, 2017 at 3:50
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    This does not change the photo size, only what you see. The Notes file size does not change.
    – Eric O
    Commented May 30, 2018 at 2:43
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This works for me (and doesn't require any screenshots):

  1. Right-click image. Select Open with Preview.
  2. Select Tools in the menu and then select Adjust Size.
  3. A menu should pop up allowing you to adjust the size. Make necessary changes and click Ok.
  4. Select entire image (Cmd + A) and copy it to clipboard (Cmd + C).
  5. Open notes and paste image (Cmd + V)
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    This may not be the best way. This creates a new image in tiff format, which isn't space efficient. Better to export the image as jpeg, then drag and drop it
    – huyz
    Commented Jul 28, 2022 at 14:45
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I found a workaround for MacOS

  1. Paste the IMAGE in Notes
  2. Double click the IMAGE
  3. Zoom out / make window smaller
  4. Take screenshot
  5. Paste it in the original note
  6. Delete old image
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This is now possible on iPadOS 16 and iOS 16. The image has to be on the drawing area for it to be resized.

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  • please provide instructions. i’m on ipadOS 16.6.2
    – wide_eyed_pupil
    Commented Nov 1, 2023 at 21:45
  • Hold and drag the image to a drawing area in the Notes app.
    – Akira Taguchi
    Commented Feb 20 at 9:43
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This is what I do:

  • Cmd+Shift+4 to take a screenshot and open up Preview
  • Click Tools > Adjust size on the top menu, I find between 600 and 800 wide looks the best on Apple Notes
  • Select Edit > Copy and paste into Notes
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Try to open the image with Preview and zoom it. Then take a screenshot with Cmd+Shift+4. Then paste the screenshot back into Notes.

It seems Notes does not support image resizing at this time. If you insert a photo to Notes, it is always too big.

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So far what works best for me is to copy/drag the image into a new mail message, resize it there by selecting small/medium/large size, then copy it again and paste in Notes (or wherever).

When I have several images to resize, I just drag them to a mail message already set with, say, Medium, and drag them again to Notes.

Still, a quick action such as select the image in Notes, click (something) and be done would be better, but I cannot find such a thing.

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You can simply drag and drop the image into notes and resize as you want. It's very simple.

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  • This won't work
    – Alex Ixeras
    Commented Nov 3, 2022 at 3:02

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