Apple Notes keeps crashing in iOS11

After erasing my iPhone X, and restoring from iCloud backup, Notes seems to be running way better. I will post back if things change.

You said you have the latest update-but do you have the beta updates? My notes only started working with the latest beta upgrades just a few days ago.

Looks like the last beta has done the trick! Zero problems since I upgraded to the latest beta update 11.3!

Since installing iOS 11.3, Notes has been working flawlessly. Hallelujah!

I also have the same issue since the very beginning of iOS 11 upgrade, which no subsequent upgrades have fixed. All my notes were saved on the iPhone, not iCloud, so I am now not only disabled to use such a usefull everyday app, but also I have lost access to the data it contained. I tried all possible ways of troubleshooting: soft/hard rebooting/resetting from backup the iPhone, resetting only settings on iPhone, removing&reinstalling the app. Notes crashes while opening, it freezes Settings app when trying to access its settings from it, no sharing to it is possible, it freezes the source app when trying to do so, etc. It only worked once when I reset iPhone as new device, ignoring my backup and losing all my data. If Apple does not fix it, this will remain the only way forward, hoping that I somehow extract notes from my backup with 3rd party tools. But even than I’ll lose the data in the password-locked notes. I wonder how many people must complain before Apple realises the magnitude of the issue and fixes it.

This is obviously still an issue, is there any update you can give us, will this be correct in 11.1? It seems like most users here that are having this issue are heavy users, like the app is crashing on trying to sync that many notes (I didn't have this issue when I had only a few hundred notes, but at 4,000 it's unusable)? I really really really don't want to go back to EN but I basically don't have a useable notes app on my iPhone?

Downloaded latestest Beta 11.2.5 beta 3 last night. Notes have been smooth a silk since checking them first thing this morning. Hopefully notes is now fixed in the next iOS public release (as it seems to be in this beta).

I submitted a bug report on bug reporter a few days ago — attached a system log and everything. An engineer marked my bug report "closed" because it was a duplicate. Someone else had reported the bug before — so it was closed because it was a duplicate. Hopefully, lots of people have reported this bug.

I’m on an iPhone 8+ 256, iOS 11.2.5. I use Apple Notes extensively on both an iPad Pro 10.5 (256, iOS 11.2.5), and the iPhone, for personal & professional use. I noticed since updating to iOS 11, the Notes app started to be sluggish & slow when writing w/ the Apple Pencil, and when reviewing notes on the iPhone (a 7+ at the time), the app was extremely slow. I attributed it to the iPhone 7 and the new OS. Now I have upgraded to an 8+ and even w/ the prior OS (11.x.x up), I noticed that the Notes app would be sluggish and unresponsive when reviewing notes on the iPhone. I thought that upgrading to 11.2.5 w/ it’s bug fixes that * maybe * Apple would have snuck in a fix for Notes. I was sorely disappointed to learn that not only are the bugs still there, it’s worse. Now, on the iPhone, the Notes app crashes constantly and doesn’t even allow inputs. When it does, I will type a note, or insert text into a table & the app will crash, deleting what I just wrote. It’s completely unreliable. This is only on the iPhone. The iPad Pro is better than it was on iOS 11 GM, but it too is still sluggish at times and the Pencil inputs are * extremely * delayed at times (I have to tap the screen w/ the Pencil and the inputs will appear a few seconds later. After this aggressive action, it will be fine for an hour or so, but it will return at some point later while I’m taking notes). I think it may have to do w/ syncing or uploading to iCloud, but I can’t be sure. I have over 500 Notes (some over 4 years old), and as I said, I use it extensively for my job. I don’t want to have to migrate to another app, but it seems if I can’t rely on Apple Notes, that’s going to have to be the case.

UPDATE:

Notes now appears to be loading notes to my iPhone X and iPad Pro, both running iOS 11.3.

At first, nothing was loading to either device. I then tried a few things, one of which may have “kickstarted” the loading:

1) iCloud via Web browser - Per davidfromhollady above, I went to iCloud via my web browser to check what notes were in Notes. I had already done this via my Mac Notes client which showed all my notes were still there. Interestingly, it seemed that iCloud was “hung” or down for a bit this morning as I couldn’t log into iCloud via my browser for about 30 minutes, give or take.

2) Add new note on iDevice - I also added a new note in the Notes apps on both my iPhone X and iPad Pro. I’m not sure if this kickstated things itself, worked in conjuntion with logging into iCloud via my web browser or it did nothing. But my notes are now loaded on both devices.

3) Turn off Notes & iDevice - as per ”The IT Crowd”’s episodic advice, I also decided to turn the iDevices off & on after also turning Notes off on each device. I am not sure if this caused a reset, but 30 years in IT have taught me that when all else fails . . . Again, not sure if this worked in conjunction with steps 1 &/or 2 or did nothing at all. That said, notes are now loaded.

I will give it another 24 hours and will post another update if I have a problem. I am optimistic, though, that the iCloud sync issue with Notes is resolved with the iOS 11.3 update.

As Robert.Burns notes, it is very much appreciated to have an Apple community of experts help validate our mutual sanity. Even though Apple may have a problem, bug or other app issue from time to time, knowing that you aren’t crazy - or perhaps are mutually crazy with other Apple gurus - is a great comfort to one’s sanity!

Thanks for the support!

-Bob

Ok...fingers crossed but I just updated my iPad Pro to 11.2 and Notes “appears” to be working normally. Let’s see if it holds.

My notes locked up again today. I closed out the mail app again, and wham, notes was no longer hung up. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but that’s two times in a row.

Yes, I had definitely noticed that when I did anything that would feee up memory - closing apps, restarting notes, etc. - that it made a diffference, albeit temporary.

Go to iCloud.com, log into your account, and see if your notes are there in the Notes app.