# Quick Open widget on iOS

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/quick-open-widget-on-ios/18286>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Created:** [September 30, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/quick-open-widget-on-ios/18286 "2025-09-30T17:04:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![xierox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/xierox/32/2444_2.png) [@xierox](https://community.bear.app/u/xierox)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/quick-open-widget-on-ios/18286/1 "2025-09-30T17:04:27Z")

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Hello,

Feature request:

- Add widget to iOS lock screen for opening Bear to Quick Open.
- There’s currently a “Search Notes” widget, but no way to jump directly to Quick Open.

Context:

- Quick Open is super useful, but impossible to do one-handed because of the required three-finger swipe.
- A widget would solve this and make it faster to use because you can jump exactly into typing your note’s title.

Thanks for considering this.

James

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**Author:** ![Breen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/breen/32/4852_2.png) [@Breen](https://community.bear.app/u/Breen)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/quick-open-widget-on-ios/18286/2 "2025-12-18T13:58:41Z")

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I would love to see the three finger swipe for quick open swapped with the pull down from the top of the screen used for searching the current note. Or at least an option in settings to swap these two functions. I use quick open dozens of times a day but rarely search the current note.