Notes Crashing After iOS 18

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?

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

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.

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

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!