Notes app is crashing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone

Notes and Freeform are very slow or crushing… I’m hating ios18… I’m using 15 pro max

I followed these same steps and mine is still unusable. Crashes in under 2 minutes regardless of what note I am in.

Notes are not accessible. It keeps crashing or freezing. I need access!

I use the notes app VERY intensively and after the IOS 18 update it takes about 30 seconds to load each note that's a bit long. I'm going insane.

Same. I tried all the suggestions on here and nothing worked. I took a the proverbial shot in the dark and turned off airplane mode. I shutdown my iPhone, waited for 5 minutes and restarted my iPhone. I then opened the notes app and it worked albeit a little glitchy. I then went and turned airplane mode back on and I could open my notes app (still a little glitchy but working).

Hi Sandy, the warning message doesn’t mean that your notes will be deleted from iCloud, just your iPad. After you select the Delete option, turn on syncing to iCloud again. If you then open notes you will see your notes being downloaded from iCloud. I was scared to do it too, but it worked. I haven’t had another problem with the app freezing or quitting. But it still lags. I have to stop typing for a second or two between letters, but I think that is a different problem. At least, after doing the steps above, I could access my notes, copy them, and paste them in a different app. I hope this reassures you.

I wrestled with this for a day. The issue was not the smaller notes but very large ones. The app would lock up.

The remedy was to change the name of the file in iCloud. The solution was instant. The conflict was gone and I was able to access Notes again on my iPhone 15 ios18

I have the same problem when trying to move handwriting, either with the pencil tool or when you highlight using your finger. I thought the feature to hold a word to move the sentence its in when there's extra space very helpful, but I only used it twice and every time I continuously try the app crashes. Other than crashes the app is very slow, it takes a while to register handwriting and for the handwriting refine feature it eventually gives up if you've wrote too much.

iPad Air 4th Generation

Apple Pencil 2nd Generation

Edit: Forgot to mention that using notes also drains my iPads battery can makes it a little hot. I can't see battery health on iPad, but I've only owned it for about three years and it's never been hot like this, even when using notes like I have before the update.

I tried this and now every single one of my notes is gone. Prior I was trying to load a massive note that had 75 screenshots and probably 1000-2000 words. Worked ok prior to ios18… the note doesn’t work on any of my apple devices after updating including my MacBook… I can’t even copy the note or try to send/share.

After the latest iOS update, my notes app will only one part of my notes. When I try to open one I call “journal”, nothing happens & then I can’t even go back to the previous screen! Have to close the app &/or turn off my phone & restart it! What the heck!! I don’t want to lose all I have recorded over the past few years & I don’t want to use the journal app! This was working fine until I updated a couple of nights ago!

anjlee25 wrote:

Riduclous and incredibly frustrating. It’s been over a month since ios 18 came out, 18.1 didn’t even have any fixes.

Do you mean iOS 18.1? Or iOS 18.0.1? iOS 18.1 was only released within the last hour or so.

Notes crashes every few seconds. I have plenty of space in my phone. My iCloud is full, but I don’t want to pay more money. Is Apple forcing us to pay for more iCloud to be able to use Notes?

Crazy thing is, all Microsoft apps work fine with OneDrive, so I’ve switched to using those to collaborate on lists, notes, etc. with my family.

Seems like I might as well save money and buy an Android next time if Apple can’t keep basic things working like Notes. #smh

iOS 18.0.1, iPhone 14 Plus

heatherfrozenFB wrote: "...the 1phone 8 does not have cel anymore..."

heatherfrozenFB ~ One possible explanation for not connecting with cell tower signals is a weak, aging battery. So...

Does your iPhone 8 still have its original battery?

And what's the Maximum Capacity % here?...

Settings > Battery > Battery Health

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markolius wrote: "...Apple- Please fix this!..."

markolius ~ Apple isn't here; we're just users like yourself. Use these:

Feedback - Notes - Apple

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support

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Same issue here on IPad Pro M2, large lecture notes with pure text are fine (mostly). Turned off ICloud sync which kind of helped. While taking notes with lots of math and calculations Notes tend to crash. Personally found two workarounds:

1. Turn off wifi, sometimes the devices such as your Mac or iPhone tend to contact your device for what kind of app is open. Using your device offline can pro long battery life and also prevents notes crash.
2. For large notes on IOS18 try using calculator notes section to write all the notes for whatever relevant topic. When you are done go to Apple notes and move the note you just wrote into desirable sections.

these are my personal tricks that helped, I hope this will be patched in next updates.