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Notes app is crashing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone

Is anyone else experiencing problems with their notes following the iOS 18 update? Until yesterday my notes app was working fine and I was able to use it like I’ve always done. Since yesterday on September 17, 2024, the app’s been completely unusable and you can’t click on your notes without the app freezing or crashing.


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iPhone 7, iOS 15

Posted on Sep 18, 2024 7:24 PM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2024 12:44 PM

This update is horrendus for notes, it was working fine before the update to ios18. I’m a huge user of notes and have thousands on icloud. It’s unsuable now, notes freezes, glitches, lags and I can’t access important documents. This is infuriating. I’ve unsynced and trying to re-sync my notes to see if that does anything, and the process is taking forever to re-sync.


Such a nasty update for notes.

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Oct 11, 2024 4:21 AM in response to douglas_c11

Same issue here on IPad Pro M2, large lecture notes with pure text are fine (mostly). Turned off ICloud sync which kind of helped. While taking notes with lots of math and calculations Notes tend to crash. Personally found two workarounds:

  1. Turn off wifi, sometimes the devices such as your Mac or iPhone tend to contact your device for what kind of app is open. Using your device offline can pro long battery life and also prevents notes crash.
  2. For large notes on IOS18 try using calculator notes section to write all the notes for whatever relevant topic. When you are done go to Apple notes and move the note you just wrote into desirable sections.

these are my personal tricks that helped, I hope this will be patched in next updates.

Oct 5, 2024 3:24 PM in response to Métis

Hi Metis, I just replied to you but it seems my post is lost or at least I can’t see it, so I’ll try again.

Thank you so much for the reassurances. You’re right. I followed the steps and eventually all my notes came back! 

It doesn’t solve the problem: when I first open Notes, my iPad screen is blank except for two tiny arrows in the upper left screen. I tap on those and then get a screen saying no notes. But there’s an icon in the upper left corner so I tap on that and then my Notes folder page appears.  Before the iOS 18 update Notes automatically opened up the actual Note I was previously working/writing in.  I did update to iOS 18.1 today - didn’t make a difference.

Notes app is crashing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone

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