# Simple Math Calculating Came and Went?
**URL:** https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996
**Category:** Bear Feedback
**Created:** [October 19, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996 "2024-10-19T13:50:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@DrBop](https://community.bear.app/u/DrBop)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/1 "2024-10-19T13:50:14Z")
This is so weird. About a week ago, I entered a simple equation (think 2+2=) and Bear calculated the answer. I had to hit TAB for the auto-generated result to persist. But now that math feature is gone. I’m completely baffled. I thought I missed an announcement of a new enhancement (simple calculations), but then this very welcome capacity disappeared with as little notice as it appeared.
Anyone else experience this? Any ideas as to what happened here?
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### Author:  [@James.bcn](https://community.bear.app/u/James.bcn)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/2 "2024-10-19T16:09:24Z")
Are you sure you’re not confusing Bear and Apple Notes? Notes had that functionality added fairly recently.
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### Author:  [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 7:49am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/3 "2024-10-21T07:49:16Z")
I can confirm this still works on both iOS and macOS as it’s part of the new OSes autocompletion facilities provided. Maybe you turn it off in the preferences?
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### Author:  [@PeterT](https://community.bear.app/u/PeterT)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/4 "2024-10-21T08:40:02Z")
@trix180 In Bear preferences or in OS preferences?
I cannot find a setting to toggle on/of.
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### Author:  [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/5 "2024-10-21T09:30:22Z")
iOS preferences \> general \> keyboard \> show math results
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### Author:  [@matteo](https://community.bear.app/u/matteo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/6 "2024-10-21T09:54:30Z")
It also seems that you to have “Check spelling while Typing” (Edit → Spelling and Grammar) on in order to get the results 🤷
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### Author:  [@PeterT](https://community.bear.app/u/PeterT)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/7 "2024-10-21T11:45:00Z")
@trix180 @matteo Sorry, but this still doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/8 "2024-10-21T11:58:34Z")
I wonder if this is enabled on iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 (betas). Do you see the math preference on iOS?
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### Author:  [@PeterT](https://community.bear.app/u/PeterT)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/9 "2024-10-21T12:37:20Z")
@trix180 I am not on the OS betas.
And it works on Notes.
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### Author:  [@TomVD](https://community.bear.app/u/TomVD)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/10 "2024-10-21T20:54:07Z")
same here… it worked a while, but now it´s not… (MacOS 15.0.1)
iOS is working
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### Author:  [@Eleanor](https://community.bear.app/u/Eleanor)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/11 "2024-10-21T22:43:53Z")
On other note, thanks for letting me know. I can finally turn off the feature 😅
Was bugging me so much when I was writing math equations via LaTeX.
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### Author:  [@alwillis](https://community.bear.app/u/alwillis)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/12 "2024-10-22T02:42:53Z")
Just tried it; works on macOS 15.1. I’m running the release candidate.
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### Author:  [@DrBop](https://community.bear.app/u/DrBop)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/13 "2024-10-22T13:23:06Z")
Thanks to all. Here’s what I’ve discovered: On the Mac (Sequoia 15.0.1), if I open Apple Notes and do a little math (even one instance of 2+2) then math works in both Notes _and_ Bear. It appears that loading Apple Notes triggers the math function globally. Upon closing Apple Notes, the math function still persists in Bear. I’m viewing this as an Easter egg.
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### Author:  [@fmaiabatista](https://community.bear.app/u/fmaiabatista)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/simple-math-calculating-came-and-went/13996/14 "2025-07-23T14:06:00Z")
Hi, I can’t seem to reproduce this as @DrBop described… I’m on Sequoia 15.5 though…
My use case for simple math calculation would be to include a simple conversion of remaining vacation hours to days in my office admin note: `(statuory hours + non-statuory hours) / 8 = n days`
I recorded Apple Notes and Bear below: