Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update

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'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

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 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.

ios version = 18.0.1

Notes is still unusable. New notes hang and prevent any user input. When I try to create a note, multiple blank notes are created. Now my notes app is cluttered with dozens of blank notes.

Notes is a mission-critical app on the iphone. It's the one place where you write anything down until you organize it later. It seriously cannot fail without taking the entire phone down.

After making phone calls, this is the single most important app. It is the app that supports every other app.

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.

Even with the IOS 18.1 update Apple Note is still broken. I see this is a known issue, what is Apple waiting for ?

All notes that are a little too long start to slow down a lot when typing. Using Apple Note heats up the phone and uses up the battery quickly.

I can't work properly any more and I urgently need to fix this problem. What is Apple doing ?

In iOS 16 there were no delays in notes, in iOS 17 large text notes (>100,000 characters) slowed down a bit, it was unpleasant. In iOS 18.1 large text notes slow down a lot, it’s impossible to work.

Re-opening and closing the app 20 times didn’t work for me.

I deleted the Notes app. Then reinstalled and allowed all my notes (1002) to load. It didn’t work for me.

Now I edit large notes only in macOS Sonoma, since it’s impossible to do this in iOS 18.1. It’s very inconvenient.

I’m waiting for a fix, otherwise I’ll have to look for a replacement iPhone.

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.

Sadly not surpprised

Im sick of this

should be used to this

The updates should be user tested Prior

By individuals like myself who have almost 13k in Notes

Its a no brainer

You take something you put it back as you found it= You change something You warrant that change but in essence, put it back so it’s like it was before but BETTER NOT WORSE…

AND yes GIVE US AN EMOJI APP SO WE CAN CHOOSE FOR OURSELVES WHICH EMOJIS WE WANT!

I DO NOT NEED WAR AND PEACE IN SCROLLING FOR DOLLARS TO FIND THE FREAKING EMOJI I WANT AND NEED!

Yes

I’m

Screaming….

Maybe you will Notice…

Ty

This did not work for me.

I have the same problem. I have some big notes, using colored text and titles and on every device they lag as **** while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings)

FIX IT

I was hoping 18.1 would resolve but still no go. So slow typing in notes it’s crazy. No idea how such a simple app could be so disrupted. I have used for years and only with iOS 18 did this issue emerge. Frustrating.