Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update
Following install of iOS 18 notes is lagging significantly. All other app improvements are working well. No other issues.
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
Following install of iOS 18 notes is lagging significantly. All other app improvements are working well. No other issues.
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
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!!! 😡
I really appreciate what I read, it just didn't work for me. Why would it? In fact this has the incredible disadvantage when there are thousands and thousands of notes with several GB and you are mainly equipped with only mobile data plan.
For this exact moment, your success could also ‘simply’ be due to the new iOS version 18.3.
For the reasons I mentioned below, that's not an option for me either. Deleting only affects the notes stored locally on the iPhone, which remain in the iCloud. The least you have to worry about after reactivating the iCloud sync is ‘hours’ of traffic until all notes are back on the iPhone again.
Me as well. After 18.3 update sometimes it just deletes something I just wrote, and when I try to transfer to pdf it just completely leaves out sections of my notes. Not happy with this one Apple. Please fix this. I rely heavily on the notes app.
Since apple has been ‘playing dead man’ on the subject for months, I would rather not hope at the moment. I assume that it simply affects too few users in Apple's eyes. Which of course doesn't help those of us who rely so heavily on Notes.
Same with me, I use notepad every day for years and I have a feeling that they are tracking us and recording what we typed that’s why it lags
they needs to fix this, cuz the lag is getting worse, it idle for like 5 sec and it’s doing it own things and back to normal, quite annoying
So, while MacOS 15.4 improved the response time of Notes noticeably, I can't say the same for notes in iOS 18.4. It still takes too long for a note (existent and new) to open / to appear. As almost a day after the update the hint about about the update still being completed in the background is still shown, I'm still hoping that the issue will be fixed. Six months after the release of iOS 18. Any updates from the other posters?
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.
no bugs in ios18 then
I can’t turn off notes just deleted and some notes may disappear. Can some one help pls.
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!
This did not work for me.
Did you try uninstalling Notes, then reinstalling from the App Store? Hope you get it fixed.
Thanks a lot, worked for me and I have 3000 notes, some of them quite large. I never had this issue in my desktop and laptop (mac), just in ios18. Really appreciate your help !
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
Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update