Notes Crashing After iOS 18

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Notes Crashing After iOS 18

I’ve had no problems with Apple Notes and have really enjoyed using the app for several years now. However, since installing iOS 18 on my iPhone 15 pro, Notes crashes.

I have tried turning off the sync, uninstalling the app, shutting off my phone completely for 10 mins, reinstalling the app, and then turning sync back on. I’ve also unshared all my notes and have many nested notes. None of these solutions seemed to work. I can use my notes fine on my Mac with Sequoia, and my olds road without issue.

iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 18, 2024 08:22 PM

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dano6876 Author

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Sep 22, 2024 05:08 PM in response to Philip Chadwick1

Thank you Philip. That is what o suspected as well — specific notes — that would cause the crash. Cause it would do it during sync. Since I had over 2k notes, I didn’t want to take the time to find out which one/s were causing the problem. So, I exported all my notes, then permanently deleting all my notes. I have began to import my notes from the exported files and have had no problem since.

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dano6876 Author

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Sep 22, 2024 08:07 PM in response to Philip Chadwick1

It was a 3rd party program called Exporter, available for the Mac. It gives the choice of exporting into html or markdown saving pictures as attachments. I changed it to html, told it where to dump the files and it took about an hour to run for 2k files.

The other option I tried before that was sharing to One Note, but that also was taking a tremendous amount of time as I had to do it one note at a time. Exporter did all the notes at once.

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rk257386

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Sep 26, 2024 07:14 PM in response to dano6876

I upgraded to iOS 18 last week. It immediately made notes act strange. I type a few words and it takes like 60 seconds for the words to slowly appear. But I had already ordered an iPhone 16 Pro so I figured the problem would be resolved with the new device. Nope, it’s a glitch in the operating system. How hard could it be to have a minimalist notes app that just allows you to type words?

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tony.d.

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Oct 18, 2024 02:39 AM in response to dano6876

When I first upgraded to 18 on my iPad, Notes was pretty buggy. Froze a lot. Lots of lagging when typing. Then it fixed itself. No problems for weeks. Now today it got really buggy. Certain notes I can’t open. As soon as I tap them the app freezes up completely. I tried the “shut off iCloud sync and turn it on again” but it did nothing. I have a lot of notes that won’t open now. They really need to get this fixed

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Sep 22, 2024 03:18 PM in response to dano6876

For me it's occurring on both iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. I've found three specific notes that instantly freeze the Notes app on either mac or iPhone running the new OS's only (previous OS versions load these notes successfully. The only solution I have found is to use iCloud web app in browser and copy the note to a text doc, then create a new note and past the text. So it appears to be a link or embedded media that is causing the issue on the new OS's.

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Poirot74

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Sep 26, 2024 07:21 AM in response to dano6876

Same is happening to me in iPad with new iPadOS 18: Apple Notes freezing, hanging, not being able to write notes with Apple Pencil.

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Sep 22, 2024 06:52 PM in response to dano6876

Hi and thanks for your reply as well. When you say you exported your notes, did you use Notes’ ability to export as a PDF or did you copy/paste text as I did (losing all links and embedded media.) if you were able to export as PDF and then import to a new note (keeping embedded media) then I’d obviously like to try that. thx!

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dano6876 Author

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Sep 27, 2024 06:02 AM in response to Philip Chadwick1

The Exporter program I mentioned above, worked flawlessly. And then I was able to import my notes a few at a time to discover which notes were actually causing the issue.

Seems to be the new Apple Notes having issues with a couple of my notes, so when it syncs, which is all the time, it would freeze. Since exporting and importing back, I’ve had no issues.

I hope this helps others.

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