Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update

Re-opening and closing the app (at least 20 times) didn’t work for me. It kept freezing whenever I tried to open any Note. I eventually figured out that the problem was caused by my having one particularly large Note (over 35MB including embedded photos). I finally got that Note to open in the Cloud by waiting several minutes. I then spent several more minutes trimming it down. Then Notes started working okay.

Frustrating that I lost the vast majority of that Note (I couldn’t Share it anywhere; Notes would just freeze). But at least I can now use Notes again.

Apple clearly did not user-test iOS 18 with a large Note!!! 😡

Same goes for me.

I was very excited for the "Collapsible sections", so I immediately used it on a super long note I've had for the past year or so. As soon as I did that it started lagging terribly and now it's basically almost impossible to use, considering how slow it is.

It does this both on my Macbook M1 (2020) and my iPhone 12. I don't think the device matters though, I think it's something that hopefully will be fixed through future updates.

i don’t give a flying feck about new emojis. You keep releasing software that is buggy or broken and you must know it!! Notes in iOS 28 is entirely broken. Stop ******** on your customers. FIX THIS!

I had the same problem, not only on iPhone, but also on iPad. I read somewhere that the solution is to close the app several times. I tried it, and after closing, opening, closing, etc. 5-6 times, the app works fine on both devices.

I have exactly the same issue. I used collapsible headings in a longer note - albeit a lot of collapsible headings - and now it is terribly slow to scroll or otherwise navigate.

JUST tried this and it worked! Thank you! Opened/closed several times. All is now well in notes. That was a weird issue.

Had same issue (it was maddening) Just saw a fix in another post: Close/open the notes app 5-6 times…and tried it. FIXED! Thank goodness, use the notes feature a LOT. Many thanks to op Pomumm!

This did not work for me.

Omg! My Notes are terrible!!! I have been entering copies of recipes and most of the “ copy” is off screen, it’s as if one page turned into two pages without the ability to “ View” all of it.

How can this be fixed?

This is happening with a large note both on iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The note eventually (after maybe a minute?) opens on iOS, but is so laggy that the keyboard lags about a second behind my typing. On mac, it takes about 10-20 seconds to open the note. The performance is noticeably a little laggy on mac as I type as well, but nowhere near as bad as iOS.

Frustrating - the main reason I use apple notes is because it's so fast to open and begin typing versus other note apps.

I'm a heavy notes user with ~10k notes saved, many with scans, 2.2GB notes DB size. iOS 18 Notes is broken. Seems to hang every 5 seconds. When I type a note, it hangs with every 5-10 character's typed .

iOS version 18.0.1

no bugs in ios18 then

I can’t turn off notes just deleted and some notes may disappear. Can some one help pls.