MrGoodHammer
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Q: Why are my notes messed up after iOS9 update?

What the flip Apple?!

I updated my iPad Air 2 to iOS 9 today. It included an update to the Notes app.

Somehow, the update has exchanged all the Returns in my nicely organized lines of text, for spaces.

Now I have to go through 100+ notes and put the line breaks back in, so all my separate lines of information aren't one big glob of text at the top of the note.

 

Example:

 

BEFORE UPDATE:

 

Shopping List:

 

Bread

Mayonnaise

Cheese

Dog Food

Paper Towels


AFTER UPDATE:


Shopping List: Bread Mayonnaise Cheese Dog Food Paper Towels



APPLE! PLEASE Please please...don't go the way of Microsoft and make your loyal users dread updating their devices, for fear of finding some hidden glitch that makes things worse instead of better!! I can understand something like this happening with 3rd party apps whose code may have incompatibilities, but THIS IS A CORE APP! It's un-deleteable...it's the simplest app in iOS...it doesn't even have a sorting option! It's an iron anvil of an app! How in THE FLIP can you jack it up??!!


Has this happened to anyone else? Anyone have a work around?

I seriously doubt a patch can fix this. The information in my notes has permanently changed.

No patch can go through and figure out what is supposed be a line break, and what is supposed to be a space.

In all fairness...my iCloud notes seem to be unaffected. It's only the notes stored on my device.

I wanted to update my iPhone today, but am pensive now.


Since I always do a full, manual backup of my devices before a major update...I will Restore Backup and see if I can archive just the notes on my ipad somewhere. Perhaps a sync with Outlook will do the trick.

iPad Air, iOS 9, null

Posted on Sep 18, 2015 1:28 PM

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  • by claudioagmfilho,

    claudioagmfilho claudioagmfilho Mar 25, 2016 4:59 AM in response to MrGoodHammer
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    Mar 25, 2016 4:59 AM in response to MrGoodHammer

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    Island iPadSep 29, 2015 7:46 AM

    When I used to search a word in Notes and then choose that note, it would go right to that word in the note and highlight the word in yellow.

     

    Now when I search, it just shows the note(s) it is in and when selected, takes me to the top rather than to where the search word is. Then I have to search the whole fricking note anyway w/out even the benefit of a highlight....What a big PIA.

     

    Is there a way to turn on "highlighting"?

     

    If not Apple employees, can you add it back and also allow the yellow highlight every time that word is in the note?

     

    Thanks for any help.

     

    iPhone 6, iOS 9.3, null

    Why no yellow highlight when searching in Notes section??

  • by snacksworth,

    snacksworth snacksworth Sep 27, 2016 11:01 AM in response to MrGoodHammer
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    Sep 27, 2016 11:01 AM in response to MrGoodHammer

    I too had a novels worth of notes I've been collecting for years. Lost all the line breaks, total mess. Almost had a heart attack. Apple should really address this problem. Their attention to detail is starting to slide, we are entering a post-apple world.

     

    I found a work around to get the notes back.  Basically I took an old iphone I had (that wasn't upgraded), and restored it with the latest back up of my current notes scrambled phone (a BU before I upgraded notes.)  Now I have my notes back with line breaks on the old phone. Now I'm going to email them to myself and copy them over.  Still a pain in the *ss but beats going through it line by line.

     

    Hope that helps

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