Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update

Crazy that this is happening to such a simple app made by one of the world’s biggest companies. Ridiculous.

JUST tried this and it worked! Thank you! Opened/closed several times. All is now well in notes. That was a weird issue.

18.1.1…. I’ve signed in and out, deleted, reinstalled. To no avail. It lags awful - so slow - and also loses my numbering when I copy and paste to a text.

I use the app daily to write my gratitude list and it’s making me decidedly NOT GRATEFUL.

Shorter notes work better so I started a new note. My friend had me get the app PasteNow and if I copy and paste from notes to PasteNow, then copy from PasteNow it keeps my numbering. It’s a lot of work but I suppose I’m GRATEFUL I found a work around.

I read through this thread and tried all of the “fixes” and nothing has worked for me. The Notes app has basically become unusable especially after the 18.2 iOS update. It seems like every update just makes it worse. Someone suggested I get a newer phone but that always seems to make more problems as well every time I’ve done that. The Notes app is sticky, slow, hangs up, and crashes so much it’s basically become unusable for me. I’m seriously thinking about sending all of the notes I have (which is quite extensive) to my email account then downloading them to a thumb drive and stopping the Notes app altogether and finding something else to use because this is seriously ridiculous. Even though this might take me an enormous amount of time I think in the end it will actually save me time being that this app operates so poorly.

Notes was my go to for sending out music manuscripts to my colleagues for years. I used to be able to scan and send up to 17 pages of sheet music in one note. Now it is refusing to send even one page, claiming it is too big a file. PLEASE RESTORE THE OLD NOTES.

I recently started using Notes to help organise my life. I love the collapse feature but the lag is unbearable. Even on an IPhone 15 pro. In honesty to pay that much for a device and have software problems on that scale is embarrassing. Apple Please fix this!

Apple Notes has been so unreliable that I’ve been using Obsidian and Google Keep instead! Way to let your competition win, Apple.

(fix it asap!!!)

Omg! My Notes are terrible!!! I have been entering copies of recipes and most of the “ copy” is off screen, it’s as if one page turned into two pages without the ability to “ View” all of it.

How can this be fixed?

I also have the multiple blank notes problem and I am pretty sure it is because I tap the new note button multiple times because of the lag and being accustomed to seeing the note appear immediately.

if I just tap it once and wait….and wait…and wait…and wait some more l, I only get one new one

I use Notes app as a journal and have an extremely long note with all of my journaling and words in it. Can’t access it on my Ipad, like, at all. It works on my phone NOW, but it was lagging a lot earlier. No idea why.

18.2 did not seem to change anything for me either.

Strangely, if a note has content, it opens just fine. It’s creating new notes and the automatic deletion of a blank note (or manual deletion of one with content) that hangs big time.

the hang seems to have shortened but it still is many many seconds

This is the only way it fixed it for me! Deleted app and then reinstalled and added back all notes from the cloud. works really well now .... as before !! Thank you for the advice.

iOS 18 is terrible

The only thing that works is to delete the app and never use it again! Trust me, it works!! I feel better already.

I don't think the size of notes is crucial - it wasn't until now. Yes, some workaround attempts helped some people, but the problem, namely in the sync with the iCloud, remains. Gladly they appear to have fixed the same issue in MacOs -which gives hope that this will soon be fixed for iOS as well.