Re: Apple Notes slow

From	Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.mobile.ipad
Subject	Re: Apple Notes slow
Date	2025-08-05 16:56 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<106td3v$2sjko$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 03/08/2025 18:05, Chris wrote:
>> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/08/2025 16:56, Chris wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for cross-posting to UCSM, but there's lots of expertise there that
>>>> may not be in the ipad ng.
>>>> 
>>>> I've over 1600 mostly hand written notes saved to my ipad (9th gen) and
>>>> sync'd with icloud. The ipad is being quite unresponsive with selecting 
>>>> and opening any new notes. Like 4-5 second lag. Once open it's fine.
>>>> 
>>>> In all other respects the ipad is great.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this an icloud, ipad, internet or other issue? Does anyone else have
>>>> this many or more notes on their ipad?
>>>> 
>>>> On my Mac (M2 MBP), I've no issues in terms of performance, but can't 
>>>> do as much with the notes as I can on the ipad.
>>>> 
>>>> The ipad has done me well over the last three years so am open to 
>>>> getting a newer one if it's a hardware issue as I use it daily.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like it is possibly the notes are not actually stored on the
>>> iPad, so have to be re-downloaded from the iCloud servers before
>>> opening each time.
>> 
>> That's a good thought. Turning off wifi makes no difference. The notes are
>> still all there, but the lag is still the same.
>> 
>> So not a download lag.
> 
> Another possibility is simply too many or too many complex notes Files. 
> Some people have reported that organising their Notes files into 
> sub-folders helps with various speed (and crashing) issues in Notes. 
> For example:
> <https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/notes-app-has-keyboard-lag-but-no-other-apps-do.2388016/>
> 

That's a good find. I'll try that.

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Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-01 15:56 +0000
  Re: Apple Notes slow "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-01 17:29 +0100
    Re: Apple Notes slow Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-08-02 11:01 +1200
      Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-03 17:05 +0000
        Re: Apple Notes slow "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-04 16:37 +0100
          Re: Apple Notes slow Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2025-08-05 09:03 +1200
            Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-05 16:56 +0000
              Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-08 18:29 +0100
                Re: Apple Notes slow Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-09 10:23 +0000
                Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-09 12:47 +0000
                Re: Apple Notes slow Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-08-09 13:04 +0000
                Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-11 15:30 +0100
        Re: Apple Notes slow Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-08-04 17:18 +0000
          Re: Apple Notes slow "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-08-04 18:37 +0100
          Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-05 16:56 +0000
  Re: Apple Notes slow Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-05 01:09 +0100
    Re: Apple Notes slow Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-08-05 17:03 +0000
      Re: Apple Notes slow Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-06 00:10 +0100
        Re: Apple Notes slow RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-08-06 06:29 +0000
          Re: Apple Notes slow Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-08-17 09:49 +0000
            Re: Apple Notes slow Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-08-17 16:00 +0200

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