macOS Notes in Sequoia very bad typing lag
THE PROBLEM
Typing text into my large (7000+ lines + images) note has very bad lag, but this is not true of my other notes (video at the bottom of this post).
ENVIRONMENT
I'm using Notes on my 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro running macOS Sequoia 15.0, though this same issue was happening under macOS Sonoma also.
DETAIL
The note itself is pretty big and includes images interspersed throughout. If I paste text-only into a file, it has just over 7000 lines:
If I export it to PDF, it is 242 pages.
No matter where I type in the note (top, bottom, middle), there is very bad input lag for everything I type.
WORK AROUND
As an experiment, I copied the entire note and pasted it into a new note. In the new note, all my typing comes up quickly, as I'd expect, with no input lag. I thought maybe the copy-and-paste lost some information, such as images, but when I export the new note to PDF, it is also 242 pages, and the file sizes are about the same (I did change the name/title at the top of both notes, to differentiate them, but the rest of the content is the same):
SAMPLE VIDEO
Finally, here is a screen capture video. In the video, there are two Notes windows.
- The top window is the original note. When I type into this window reasonably quickly, there is terrible input lag.
- The bottom window is the copy (where I pasted all the content from the first note).
- Both notes are 7000+ lines long
Sample video on YouTube:
MacBook Pro 16″
