As Subject says, the cursor keeps jumping around while typing in the Notes App. This bug has been persistent among many versions and still no fixes for maybe a year. There's also a reddit thread about this with many users with the same experience. When will this be fixed?!?!?!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/11gw9cw/jumping_cursor_while_typing_in_notes_app_even/
Mac mini (M1, 2020)
Under Keyboard, Text Input, Input Sources, turn off some or all of Correct Spelling Automatically, Capitalise Words Automatically, Show Inline predictive text, Add full stop etc.
Solved the problem in Notes for me.
I have noticed this the past several weeks on both my MacBook M2 and Mac Studio. Only appears to happen in tables in Notes. Quite frustrating !!!
I'll trawl this board for any potential fixes and feedback success.
Only Notes. Pages behaves correctly.
Would be nice if apple actually took a look at all these complaints.
Same problem happening here. Always in tables. macOS Sonoma 14.5. Please don't more features, before you can't fix this.
I have been using Notes for OS 17 and it is impossible to navigate as the cursor has a mind of its own. I select a point of text in a cell and when I try to edit it the cursor jumps to the bottom of the note. It seems be worse with the new version of Notes in OS17 on my iPad. I’m about ready to give up on the app which is a shame as I have lots of notes already set up. Any answers for this problem??
I'm really sick of this problem. It's been going on for over a year. This is an obvious problem with the Notes app that hasn't been resolved in over a year. During this time, the app developers have developed many new useless features, and they don't want to solve this really big problem!
It is not just one app or device. I typed "and " once and all devices accepted as that is how that word is: with an extra space. I need to know how to remove certain words or phrases or words plus spaces out of my devices autocorrect.
The other one is "sone". It now autocorrects some to sone.
I am having the same issue. It only seems to happen in the tables in Notes and only when my note starts to get kinda long. I really like Apple Notes and don't want to have to switch to a 3rd party app.
Hey Apple, can you please give the Notes App some TLC and fix this bug?
I completely support the additional comment about the "length" of the table in Notes. The table I am working with has about 100 rows and the problem is terrible. Another table I started recently the issue, now that you mention it, did start after the table was >20 or so rows. UGH!
Apple Support: If you are reading this thread please be aware, NONE of these so called fixes are a) practical b) last for any period of time c) affect all devices under the same AppleID.
This really needs to be closed examined by the programmers. The community cannot fix an error in the algorithm.
Thanks!
as of Apr 20, 2024, this is still happening. On my M2 Mac Pro on Sonoma 14.4.1, most updated.
It makes no sense that this has been occurring for this long. I have to type like a garden snail in order for it not to occur.
this problem still exists - on iPhone same as Mac. I'm using an iCloud based note and I have inserted a table. The cursor keeps on moving backwards unless I type really really slow. Please fix the bug
Thank you
I find it hard to believe it's still a problem. Do other brands have this issue? For me, letters can jump who knows where and I have to stop to search for them. It really slows me down and I'm sure errors get through.
'23 Macbook Air, iPhone 13 Pro. I mainly notice it using Mail and Notes.
No it is a problem with Notes only. As others have also reported in the Reddit page.
Same is happening to me while typing into tables in the Notes app. I haven't tried replicating it on my iPad. As others have mentioned, it's not happening in Pages or other Text based apps.
MacOS Notes App, Cursor jumps back when typing fast.
