Apple Notes keeps crashing in iOS11

Been there, done that. It took about 3 days for the problem to return. I’m now on two weeks with no problems after removing broken links from an Evernote import into notes.

Like I said, delete the notes app and reinstall. Then re enable iCloud notes sync.

I’ve gone through and deleted a bunch of notes from my old business activities. It runs so much faster now. I also sent everything to MS Notes. I think I’m going to add new items to both programs so they stay in sync until this gets resolved.

I think I was able to isolate the root cause - I added this one link - WebDriver Support in Safari 10 | WebKit in one of the notes. The first sign of trouble was that this link got added as a large image even though the other links added before and after this one were rightfully added as small images. The instability symptoms - freezing, crashing started showing up immediately. After deleting that one link from the note, and keeping the other links as is, Notes is running well.

I dropped from 1501 notes to 1147. Still a decent amount of notes. The program is significantly faster. Almost all of the Evernote links were broken. I checked each one before I deleted them. I think these broken links could not be resolved by the notes search engine. My notes always hung up during searches, or trying to open notes after a search so I think this is not related to note volume.

The fix often works for me that was posted in this thread. I have to force quit mail for notes to work. It's still 'sticky' but it unfreezes after I close all apps and then launch into notes again.

Apple is not aware and won't look into a thing unless a bug report is submitted. Have people done this?

I have this same issue in the latest. I even wiped and restored. I have 4000+ notes that I can’t work with on iPhone but have no issue on Mac and iPad Pro. My phone however, like most, is what I gave with me when I need to add to my notes. So for my purposes, like I suspect is the case for many, Apple does not have a functioning note taking App on its device. My solution was to buy Drafts and when finished I export the note to Noted where I will hopefully see it later. Checklists I moved to Reminders since I can’t use Notes to check off my lists. This is very basic functionality that has been broken and not acknowledged for months. These notes are very important to my job so iOS is not something I can consider Enterprise ready anymore nor can I recommend to friends.

This is most certainly a sync issue with the cloud server. If I put my phone in airplane mode, notes is immediately responsive. I have tried all of the usual solutions to no avail. I think it’s on apple’s end.

Runing 11.3 Beta2 for 2 weeks now. Notes and this version works flawelessly. I’ve had zero problems with this version whatsoever. I’ve never tried a Beta version before.

Downoading and installing is easy. Follow the steps here.

Does anyone know when the general release of the iOS 11.3 should be available? I can’t believe It’s not out yet. Apple seems to have fixed these problems in the update. I and other users here have found success with the beta version of 11.3. I have it on all 4 of my devices. For well over a month now there’s been no issues in the Notes app of any kind. My iPhones and iPads, overall, appear to be be faster and more responsive, and battery life is better also. I use the Notes app heavily (almost 3000 notes with pictures, links and many copy/pastes), so for me, this was a very welcomed relief.

TEMP SOLUTION: Disable WIFI [Cloud Sync] before opening app.