Apple Notes lag when taking handwritten notes on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil

The only solution I’ve found it’s use an other app to take your notes, now I’m using Notability and the problem it’s solved. If you want the upgraded version of the app you have to buy Notability app that it’s 14€/year

I have the same problem on my iPad Air. And yes I noticed the issue right after the update to iPadOS 16. Also, coincident with this issue, I have noticed that when using the eraser mode on Apple Pencil (in Notes), it no longer respects tilting (of the Apple Pencil) to either increase or decrease the size of the "erase circle".

also having the same issue on 4th gen ipad air. It used to get fixed after force restarting but no longer does. only thing that has helped was using text to split up the notes but that’s honestly inconvenient and messes up my note formatting

same here, however, it is the length of the notes, it’s so annoying. i’d be understanding if it was terribly old but it’s the 2020 version! try opening a new note and then merging the pdfs after you’re done, still…annoying af

Just signed in to thank you!!

It's honestly ridiculous how do you have to do this using the app of the brand that "just works" smh... Hope they fix this soon.

Anyways, this completely solved the problem, tysm.

I've noticed this since last year. I was writing an important note. Then it just went. I'm selling my iPad and getting out of the ecosystem. The amount of money i put into that device. And the inbuilt Notes app on the pro device with an apple pencil just doesn't work. And its been like this over a year.

This helped with my laggy notes problem perfectly.

I usually write something a million times to remember it. Needless to say the laggy note taking started being a problem when i reach around half way to the bottom of the ocean on my apple notes. it starts with the latency increasing and the screen heating a bit then finally just straight up lagging. But once broken up continued working just fine.

But apple might wanna find a way to patch the original problem up without us having to resort to this solution.

I just lost notes from a long conversation that will be very difficult to reproduce. The Note just got truncated and there does not seem to be any way to get it back. All my software is up to date. This is HORRIFIC.

This is still happening to me. I have already tried doing the forced restart and that didn’t work. I also don’t want to keep having to make new sections every time the lag starts to happen. Is there not a better solution yet. It seems to be happening a lot and it’s been 2 years now

hi how is it?? do u hv any changes? bcs i face the same problem too

i tried but nothing changed. and still lagging. what shoud i do??

I'm having the same problem, i think we have to change app to take notes, i don't know why they aren't doing anything at the moment to solve this big problem.

That idea worked for me. Thanks! Anyway, it's annoying, and I hope Apple does something about it. My problem started at soon as I upgraded to iOS 16.2.

Thanks a mill for sharing. This worked for me as well. Hoping as well Apple will fix this with an update very soon as it is very annoying.

Thanks a lot, it's working!!!