Q: Notes slow
I'm trying out Apple Notes, migrating a few thousand notes from Evernote and find that the speed is fairly horrific, with multi-second pauses on scrolling whilst using the app on the iPhone 6S or iPad Pro, and still noticeable pauses on a MacBook Pro Retina 2.7GHz machine. Evernote running on all the devices is perfectly acceptable - whether the file is synced locally or not.
iPhone 6S Plus has 128GB with tens of GB free.
iPad Pro also has 128GB with tens of GB free.
MacBook Pro Retina 15" has 16GB RAM, 2.7GHz processor and 768GB SDD.
Number of notes ~4,000 including many with PDFs attached.
Is it just me experiencing this slowness?
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.3
Posted on Mar 27, 2016 11:37 AM
I managed to fix the problem. If you go and manage your iCloud storage - either through iOS or OS X - you'll find a Notes folder containing all your notes. Make sure you back up your notes and then continue to delete to the folder.
Turn off Notes in iCloud on all devices, wait a few minutes and turn it back on. Everything, including the Notes webapp should be running without issue now.
Note: on iOS you either have to restore to flush old data or leave Notes app open by preventing the device from going to sleep.
Posted on Jun 3, 2016 7:32 AM