Notion is quietly making its AI Meeting Notes feature much more practical and much harder to break. In a recent update shared by the company, AI Meeting Notes can now run in the background, so users can switch apps, minimize Notion, or even lock their screen without interrupting transcription.
🎙️ Update: AI Meeting Notes now run in the background. Switch apps, lock your screen…doesn’t matter. Your notes will keep going.
On iOS and Android. pic.twitter.com/AUSO46RYt2
— Notion (@NotionHQ) March 20, 2026
This is a small change on paper, but a big one in day-to-day usage, especially for people juggling meetings, notes, and multitasking workflows. Until now, most AI note-taking tools required users to keep the app active or visible, which often defeated the whole purpose of “hands-free” note-taking.
Why does this change actually matter?
At its core, Notion’s AI Meeting Notes is designed to automatically transcribe conversations, summarize them, and extract
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