iPad overheating when using notes and Apple Pencil

Use a different notes app.

I agree. The notes app (from what I thought) is a simple app. I take handwritten notes as well, and my iPad mini 6 gets very hot. It hasn’t been to the point where it burns me, but it definitely warms my fingers on a cold day. My iPad doesn’t get this hot for any other task. Including when it was first setup. I even have problems with the notes app making my computer very hot as well. The fans have to turn on.

My point is, I didn’t think the notes app was so intensively CPU driven. 🙃

This isn't a proper response to the issue.

This is across iPad models, and there is nothing someone at a Genius bar is going to be able to do about it. The behaviour only occurs with the Apple Notes app, and after writing on it with the Apple Pencil for an hour. Even if you get a Genius bar assistant to sit there watching you write something for an hour to recreate the issue, they still aren't going to be in a position to do anything about the problem.

As it looks, it is an optimisation problem with the handwriting feature on Apple Notes for iPad.

Telling people to change the brightness of their screen, or going to a Genius Bar (I don't live in a country with Apple stores), isn't going to help.

soxboy71 wrote:

My iPad heats up with any use of my pencil to draw, regardless of the application. Microsoft Whiteboards, the on-board Notes app, AND -- yes -- Notability. I think it's a code issue, but at the OS level.

If that were truly the case, it would happen to everyone. It doesn't. Contact Apple and arrange for them to run diagnostics.

I reckon it is very much an optimisation problem with how much resources the Notes app uses. I say so because even playing a moderately graphically intensive game, or even using Apple's very own Freeform (also with the Apple Pencil) consumes less battery power and barely overheats the iPad compared to the Notes app.

hema282 wrote:

Apple pls fix this problem

Apple can't fix your issue unless you take your iPad to them for diagnostics.

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That doesn't explain how only certain tasks, such as using the Apple Notes app with the Pencil, causes the iPad to literally reach burning hot body temperatures unlike with ANY other app of the same kind (e.g. OneNote, ProCreate, GoodNotes, Notability, etc.).

The Apple Notes app, along with the Files app, need a serious fix to be able to better manage memory and power consumption on the iPad.

You haven't done anything in relation to the problem, this is nothing that any of the customers are doing wrong.

Please just refer this to the appropriate team, as a bug that needs to be fixed in the notes app.

Is this a Notes app problem then? I'm asking because I will try Notability then. I've been using notes and noted that the iPad gets really hot when I am non-stop writing with an Apple pencil for more than 10 minutes. I already took it to a Genius Bar and the only thing they said to me was to format it. I did it and the overheating problem continues. I'm here searching again for this problem because I lost 1 hour of writing yesterday.

Brand new Apple Pencil Pro with Brand New iPad Pro 11" (M4/7th Gen):

In Notes, Pencil starts going wonky (time-delay response to scrolling/writing) and that's when iPad overheats & battery drains rapidly. Rebooting iPad (from Settings/General) temporarily fixes Pencil wonkiness. But overheating & draining battery on brand new iPad can't be a good thing for longevity. Needs permanent fix.

I've had the same issue with an M2 iPad Pro.

Despite that being a common problem, it's happy that other Note takers apps are not giving hot times to our iPad.

But this can't defend the Note software within the iPad itself.

I could expect heating problems on not Apple apps instead.

I do hope they will fix that.

My iPad heats up with any use of my pencil to draw, regardless of the application. Microsoft Whiteboards, the on-board Notes app, AND -- yes -- Notability. I think it's a code issue, but at the OS level.

I called Apple Support and had multiple diagnostics run, and they said that everything was normal. They also mentioned to me that the new shadow and barrel roll features take up more power in Notes. It still seems crazy indoors to have the iPad get so warm with just pencil and note use. It also doesn’t seem reasonable to have battery drop super fast from Apple Pencil use.

My battery life seems significantly better without using the Apple Pencil pro.

You are failing to see the issue here dude. Its a software issue with whoever coded the notes app did not think about optimization or even test the app before release.

Same here, whenever I switch to one notes it’s fine, it’s just on apple notes. Hopefully iPad Os 18 Will fix this. But highly doubt it considering this post is from iPad Os 16