Notes app is crashing after iOS 18 update on my iPhone

Woo hoo! Worked for me. I thought of doing this first, but freaked out when I saw the message about everything being deleted everywhere. I was ready to start manually typing everything back in. Thanks for being a guinea pig for the greater good!

Here’s a solution that what worked for me. Hope this helps! If your larger notes are causing the notes app to crash after iOS 18.1.1 update try this.

Step 1. Open settings and go to iCloud and unsync your phone.

Step 2. ( make sure you’ve done the first step otherwise you’ll delete notes from iCloud) delete your notes from your iphone. Then Delete the notes app from your iPhone.

Step 3: Wait 5 mins. Then Reinstall the notes app from app store. Resync your iCloud notes with your iPhone and wait till your notes have redownloaded to your phone. Once finished your notes should work normally. ✌️

I decided to contact support yesterday hoping it would be helpful, it was a COMPLETE waste of my time! They had me do all the things suggested in this thread (which I had already tried). They then told me to make sure and keep my phone updated to the latest software (which is what caused this problem for me in the first place 😡) and to be patient. I asked if that meant they were not going to solve my issue as I have a lot of important information I needed to access and they told me their engineers were working on this problem 24/7 and that there would be an update at some point. So no solution, no real time frame given and just a bunch of time on my Saturday wasted. I then got a survey about my experience and told them how utterly useless and frustrating that experience was. So they do know there is a problem but don’t know how to fix it.

The particular Note that I wish to open, remains always frozen. Consequently, it never opens up. This has been going on ever since I updated iOS sometime in September, 2024. Even now, it’s the same. I’m not sure what will happen to all my Notes that I saved over the last so many years.

This happened to me with the 18.1.1 iOS installation. It is absolutely CRIPPLING not be to able to access Notes. The Notes feature has been my lifeline, and connection between all apple devices.

No matter what I do, I cannot open my larger Notes files.

Apple, please come up with a solution ASAP.

And suddenly, I can access my large notes again! No software update on my end, perhaps it was a problem with iCloud? What gives, Apple?

The solution I found was to change the file names of the large files in iCloud

The solution is to change the note name or file name I iCloud. Worked perfectly for my iPhone 15 iOS 18

I changed the note name of my largest file in iCloud this solution solved the issue on my iPhone 15 using ios18

no more issues

How do you do that? Would that work for locked much larger notes with photos?

Same

and how do you do that?

Figured out how to do it. I can access and edit notes on iCloud website but it doesn’t allow me to edit them from the app.

Tried renaming them in iCloud Notes. Didn’t do anything. Still freezes up when I try to open them. I tried to Copy and Paste the notes on iCloud but apparently we can’t copy and paste on there

This worked for me. Thanks.