When I try to edit my journal entry, frequently my cursor jumps to the end of the last paragraph. I don't know if this is a flaw in the programming but I thought I would ask. Also there's no way to send a journal entry to someone else. If you copy and paste it into an email, it loses all its formatting. The only thing I managed to do was paste it into a word document and it was just so many steps to do this. Any ideas?
iPhone 14, iOS 17
same here. I hadn't wrote in my journal in a few months since the app had been official out, and it was just frustrating to write. the keyboard inside the app just felt sluggish and would not register letters at times, even the haptics were lagging behind. Alongside that, when pressing backspace on the on-screen keyboard, a glitch occurred which made the cursor continually delete what I had written even after letting go of the backspace; simply solved by quickly quitting the app, but still a major issue. Lastly, and least pressing, the app had put the cursor at the top of the journal entry after I had wrong several paragraphs.
It is absolutely awful and very frustrating when trying to type in journal and it keeps jumping the cursor every where especially the end. I copy and paste from other web sites as part of my journal and you can barely get your cursor to stay somewhere to paste. I am very close to abandoning it and never go back to Apple journal. Fix it please!
I have put all this data into the app, now any links I put in I cannot open or even copy. Hence info is useless and cumbersome to work with as I have to do all the work all over again.
what a nightmare app that is unworkable.
I have to now
what a Waste of time.
On reflection, after having had time to experience a number of the problems listed here, I must say that I am astounded how much Apple seem to have screwed up development of the Journal. It, quite seriously, is something I would expect from a fair-to-middling second year computer science undergrad for a term project. In fact, even for them, I would expect more functionality, especially around formatting, and less bugs. Apple would have had a team working on this, and with all the expertise and backing and IP and code base of Apple Inc. behind them.
I wonder why Apple felt it so necessary to release it so soon and in this state?
Thank you for your reply Idris,
My understanding was that the iOS 17 beta testing was the place for this to have occurred.
It is quite unlike Apple to release something that is functionally sparse and buggy.
I would have expected Apple to have mentioned up front that the Journal app was still in some kind of dev status, and that they were seeking some form of user feedback. Then I could totally understand this state of affairs. However, afaik, this isn’t the case, although I would be very happy to be corrected on that point. I am worried that, as can be seen from some of the posts in this forum, users have been put off the app entirely. It
is what I personally consider to be, a really useful, long term beneficial, piece of software.
For many year I have been, albeit awkwardly, shoehorning the functionality of the Notes app into a journaling function. The problem with using Notes for that is that it also becomes cluttered up with all the other stuff I that needs to go in it. Stuff that you would more commonly see the Notes app used for. So I was really pleased to see the introduction of the Journal app with iOS 17. Something to be used specifically for journaling.
It is also my understanding that Apple has visibility of these fora and takes feedback from them to feed into their dev cycle. Perhaps this in not that the case? Do you know one way or the other?
I assume that the link you embedded at the end of your reply is your suggestion as to where these issues should also be reported?
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Hello Apple, I live almost everything you do but the journal app is killing me. I almost love it, try to love it, try to write in it but the cursor jump thing is driving me crazy. Please fix this!!!!!!!!
speedatw wrote:
Please fix this app. I love the concept of it and I can, for the time being, accept that it doesn’t have an equivalent app on iPad or MacOS. However at the very least I expect it to function seamlessly on iPhone.
No one reading here can do what you want. You can, however, let Apple know your thoughts here:
I would disagree that Apple apps are the "gold standard". In most categories, there are better apps by third parties.
alida215 wrote:
Hey i have a problem when i want to insert a screen shot picture, the app crashes, will @apple fix it?
No one here in this user-to-user forum knows Apple's plans for the future. Nor does Apple read here for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:
Consider saving the screenshot to Photos first then adding it from there.
Also Apple, can you please fix another problem in the journal app, that I have:
I can’t add a screenshot to a journal entry right after I have taken that screenshot. When I try to do that, it causes the app to crash every time. I have to wait several hours before I can add the screenshot, which is super annoying.
Please Apple sort this out! It is absolutely (expletive!) dementing to have this basic problem. I'm going to off journal very quickly. Some of us mere mortals would like to edit our text in peace.
Thanks :)
Hey i have a problem when i want to insert a screen shot picture, the app crashes, will @apple fix it?
Thank you a lot
It's so disappointing, I was excited to use the new app for my journaling. Then found out I can't copy from my journal. I won't use it anymore
Was hoping that the iOS 17.4.1 update would fix this but I did not see it listed.
Editing problems with new Journal app
