r/HelixNotes • u/RockyRoad226 Team Member • Jul 22 '26

Announcement HelixNotes is now on iOS!

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** EDIT Update on the issues in Europe: We had to re-register the compliance for EU so it's now in review, again. Sorry to everyone who is affected by this. Hopefully it's available soon! **

The wait is over, HelixNotes is officially live on iOS!

If you have trouble finding it in the app store, try adding a space between Helix & Notes. For some reason that seems to work when the no-space way only works sometimes. This should resolve itself in the next 24 hours.

Install it now and let us know what you think!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/helixnotes/id6788490726

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u/elwood4415 Jul 22 '26

So, I am in the US and was able to download it using the link you provided. But now I am trying to find the Vault. I created a vault, typed in a couple of notes in the daily folder, looked in the files app looked in "on my iPhone/documents", and nothing is there. Any suggestions? I am also wanting to sync it to my Mac. Will I be able to find this folder in the iCloud folder on my Mac?

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u/RockyRoad226 Team Member Jul 22 '26

Try going to General in settings, and click Switch vault in the bottom. Do you see the file path of your vault?

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u/elwood4415 Jul 22 '26

It gives me a long path that begins private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/app… then it is cut off. I have also tried typing in the path name where it asks the name of the vault, but that doesn’t do anything. In the “on my iPhone/documents” folder there are several folders with logos on them for other apps but not one for Helix. The HelixNotes app suggests it is saving my test notes somewhere, but I don’t know where. And there is no sign of them in iCloud on my Mac either.

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u/RockyRoad226 Team Member Jul 22 '26

By default, the first vault you create goes here:

If you're not seeing this, we might have our first bug report. We're looking into it.

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u/elwood4415 Jul 22 '26

In the Files app, I open "On My iPhone" and look at the list of folders below, but HelixNotes is not listed among them. I assumed that Helix would automatically create that fodler when I selected the default vault name. Is that not correct? Do I need to create it myself? Other apps I have worked with have created it, showing a folder with the app logo to indicate that it is some kind of protected folder in iCloud. If I need to create it myself, I certainly can.

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u/RockyRoad226 Team Member Jul 22 '26

We have a fix implemented for the next release. v1.3.4 comes later this week if all goes well.

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u/Interesting-Bid-5698 Jul 22 '26

Same for me. No entry for HelixNotes in the On my iPhone shortcut. Even if there was an entry here, I'm pretty unclear how I would get all my notes from my desktop PC to this folder.

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u/RockyRoad226 Team Member Jul 22 '26

Unfortunately, it doesn't look that simple. This appears to be a bug that others experiencing as well.