Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update

I doubt that Tim is experiencing this level of ineptitude from the team responsible for the Notes app.

Hello, did you use Handwritten Notes perhaps? I am still wondering, if there is any possible way of creating collapsible sections in between handwritings. Seems like notes does not provide that feature as far as I have seen. If you found a way, please let me know. I have huge handwritten notes and that would help a lot:)

Looks who is talking , you just typed iOS 28, instead of 18 ( actually is iOS 18.1 now, as of November 24,2024) Don't throw stones at Apple app developers when you didnot even proofread your own response to

jackfromhampshire .

You have the same macbook air M1,2020 and Iphone 12 that I have. So that shows that it is not just our own notes app that is messed up .

It shows that it is the APPLE COMPANY'S NOTES APP developers ( or whatever you call the employees that make the apps and make the updates.

So far, I have not received ANY information from Apple Notes App developers as to what I can do to fix the Notes app problems .

Has anyone else heard from the developers for an answer?

I am desperate enough to find all the formatted notes to treat them according to the exclusion principle. But there is no search for e.g. notes with the heading levels. Or for notes that contain an enumeration. So if you have thousands of notes, you can do virtually nothing. 

Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update: FIXED IT

The old “turn it off and turn it on” way

Settings - Accounts - icloud - notes - sync this iphone - turn it off

Turn off iphone

Turn on iphone

Settings - Accounts - icloud - notes - sync this iphone - turn it on

Turn off iphone

Turn on iphone

Go to notes - watch it load the icloud note numbers

When done, THEN open notes

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.

Still the same on OS 15.3 etc.

It's definitely related to bullet points / highlights within a sub heading for me. Only on large notes. When all headings are expanded, it scrolls fine until it hits a section with either bullet points or highlights in it.

But it completely grinds to a halt when everything in the note is collapsed now. Barely scrolls at all.

Strange that Apple isn't fixing this.

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

i am having similar problems. . . i thought it was only on my phone, but it happened on my computer today as well. the app is strangely glitchy. it obviously works fine sometimes. but i've had moments where i am typing in a note with a lot of text. . . and it crashes and the recent stuff i wrote is gone. i've had moments where i am typing, try to move the cursor to edit something and it jumps to the middle of the note. (those were on the phone, 16 pro max) but on my M1 MacBook Air i just copied and pasted something from one note to another. . . and it left out random lines (the lines i had most recently edited)

very glitchy. i hope this gets fixed soon. i use Notes a lot.

Here, Apple. I found a solution:

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I can’t turn off notes just deleted and some notes may disappear. Can some one help pls.