iOS 13 Notes changes don't sync very often

I’ve just tested creating, editing, and deleting a new note after installing iOS 13.3 beta 2, and changes appear instantly (within 1–2 seconds) on my other devices.

They are: iMac running Catalina 10.15.1, iPad on iPad OS 13.3b2 and iPhone on iOS 13.3b2, all on the same network. I tested changes from each of these devices, and the other 2 are always reacting immediately. If Notes are important to you, try updating to iOS 13.3 beta 2.

Just wanted to confirm that I'm seeing exactly the same behavior on macOs 10.14.6 with iOS 13.1.2. You've described it perfectly. Even the tip you gave about making a small change on the Mac side to help push the sync through helped me. Thank you!

But it's all a shame on Apple though. Just at the moment I was starting to think that maybe their sync has gotten solid enough to trust it.

Hey 👋🏻, every body!

Since iOS 13 I have an awful synchronization between mine iPhone 7 and iPad Pro second generation notes. It takes a lot of time and if note has some attachments it takes up to several days or even not syncing at all. Only the one way to synchronize it surely - is switch off notes from iCloud on the device and switch it back. But any new one note (after off/on in iCloud) not syncing properly again.

Very sad 😞.

Actually, sync seems to be working fairly quickly between my iPad and iPhone both running 13.2. It’s the iMac on 10.15.0 that’s taking a long time to sync, in both directions. Hopefully 10.15.1 will fix this when it’s released (theoretically Wednesday).

Mines broken completely now. I’m on 13.2 beta ios/iPadOS and Catalina.

Catalina syncs to iCloud (checked via iCloud.com) iCloud to iOS/iPadOS broken. It does the folders but not the notes in them.

I can create notes on iOS/iPadOS that sync to iCloud and Catalina.

poor showing hope it’s fixed soon as I do like notes and rely on it heavily

Yep. I am trying to move from Evernote to Apple notes. around 1k notes. Adding a note with an attachment (say a scanned document), simply will not sync, or may do so in a number of days. Big time fail by Apple. Has anyone called support and if so what do they say?

This same issue also affects the Safari Reading List. Very slow, seemingly random syncs. Meanwhile, Bookmarks seem to sync just fine (the Reading List piggybacks on Bookmarks, I believe). Not sure what it is about Notes and Reading List.

I’m having the exact same issue up to this morning.

Reminders is by far the most affected application for me.

The notes is definitely a problem as well. The leg having to do with sink makes it so the applications are essentially unusable in a typical working environment. It would be disrespectful to our clients to use Apples solution to cloud services when so many other vendors consistently do it as designed.

Have been an Apple user for probably 11 years.

I like most of what they do, and they do most of what they do very well

As far as cloud services go… It seems most other major companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. Are all meaningfully superior as far as cloud services are concerned.

Dr.Bmosbacker, ouch... I thought it's only an issue between old version of macOS and new iOS. Now I'm horrified that new macOS has the same issues... Scary and makes me even more hesitant to upgrade.

Updated to iOS 13.2. Notes are still syncing slowly and randomly.

Never mind. Back to slow syncing ☹️

Same here. Ever since I upgraded to Catalina and iOS 13, Notes sync has been frustrating and unreliable. If this does not get corrected with the next update, I may, regrettably, have to move to a different service for my notes.

Reluctantly, I finally had to transfer my Apple Notes to Notability. Notability syncs via iCloud perfectly, consistently, and immediately. It is strange that a third party app sync reliability but the native Apple app does not.