What’s New

Your mobile app just got a long list of under-the-hood improvements that make it faster, smoother, and more enjoyable to use. The old web views are getting replaced with native components one piece at a time, starting with a new home tab.

• The iOS app starts 2× faster, and the Android app starts 3× faster

• Your new home tab opens immediately after launching the app, where you can quickly navigate to the page you need

• Once your notifications in the 🔔 tab load once, they’ll be cached to your device for instant access

• Native components make the app feel look and feel smoother, like it was purpose-built for your phone

Download the iOS app here, and the Android app here →

Now it’s much easier to navigate between pages in your databases. Create the perfect workflow by configuring how pages should open in each view, including a new option for side peek.

• Pages in your Table, Board, List & Timeline layouts will now open in side peek on the right side of your screen by default, making it easier to jump between pages and make quick edits with fewer clicks

• Use side peek to edit the database page’s properties and content on the right side of your screen, and keep your database items visible and interactive on the left side of your screen

• Click the ••• at the top right of your database, and open the Layout menu. Use the “Open pages as” dropdown to set the default for how pages should open in the view: side peek, center peek, or open as full page right away. This setting affects everyone who uses the database view.

Learn more about side peek →

Columns give you the flexibility to design your Notion pages however you like. Place images and paragraphs of text side by side for an editorial layout, create a lightweight task checklist with columns for each day of the work week, or whatever makes sense to your brain.

Now, there are new ways to quickly create multi-column layouts:

• Use slash commands with your keyboard such as /col2 and /col3 to create the corresponding number of columns — it even works inside toggles!

• Click the ⋮⋮ block handle to the left of a block, then use the “Turn into” menu to create a 2-5 column layout

• Select 2-5 consecutive blocks, then use the “Turn into” menu to turn each block into its own column

• Hold the option or alt key on your keyboard, then click the “+” button to the left of the block to add a column on the right

• You can still grab a block by its ⋮⋮ block handle, then drag to the far left or right of your screen to create columns

Learn more about columns →

When you add a link to Jira, GitHub, Figma and other tools to a Notion page, the “Paste as mention” option creates a dynamic link preview inline with your text.

Now, you can hover your cursor over inline link previews to immediately see a rich preview of the content: the passcode to a Zoom meeting, status of an Asana task, animated GIFs in Dropbox & more. There’s also a ••• menu at the top right of the preview to reload, turn the inline mention into a full block, or copy the original URL to your clipboard.

Learn more about link previews →

• For new API features & improvements, go to developers.notion.com/changelog →

• Click the Add cover button at the top of any Notion page to find new images from the James Webb Telescope

• The Confluence importer now supports files and images within tables

• Fixed a bug that prevented updates to the new Status property from reflecting in the Slack integration

• Fixed a bug that caused the Scottish flag emoji to display as solid black flag in the body of a Notion page

• Fixed a bug that caused the Android app to crash when attempting to delete a subpage within a shared page