As much as I love this app, and I’ve been using it many, many years, my issue is being able to lock the app itself. I know you can lock individual notes but I have SO many that to do that individually would be way too much. I have thousands and thousands of separate notes. If we could lock the app altogether, would be fantastic! Please consider it. This is the only app I trust not to be discontinued. I’ve had a few that I bought and when I got a new phone, the content was not available or it was discontinued or whatever… I was devastated as I need to be able to go back and check stuff. I copied all my entries from the other apps to this one and that’s when I realized I cannot lock the app itself. I try others on occasion for locking purposes but I always end up here again. Ty for keeping it around. It’s reliable! That’s important to me. Although so is my privacy….locking the app would help so much! This app is my lists and journal and thought keeper … everything. I use it multiple times daily.
I have been using the Apple Notes app for a while now, and overall, it’s a fantastic tool for organizing thoughts, ideas, and important information. The seamless integration with other Apple devices and services is particularly commendable. However, there is one glaring issue that significantly impacts the utility of the app: the inability to lock notes that contain attachments.
Security is a crucial aspect of note-taking apps, and while Apple Notes does offer the ability to lock notes, this feature becomes practically useless when it excludes notes with attachments. Attachments such as images, PDFs, and other documents often contain sensitive information that needs to be protected. The current limitation forces users to separate their attachments from the text, thereby disrupting the organization and coherence of the notes.
Why can’t we lock notes with attachments? This seems like a basic feature that should be included, especially given Apple’s emphasis on privacy and security. It’s frustrating to see that such an essential functionality is missing. I hope the developers address this issue soon, as it would greatly enhance the overall user experience and security of the app.
Until this feature is implemented, users seeking to keep their notes with attachments secure will have to look for alternative solutions. Please consider prioritizing this update to meet the security needs of your users.
This app is incredibly basic and doesn’t allow for much customization with your notes, however I had overlooked that for a long time rather than just finding a new notes app to test out.
The other day I opened my notes app and all my notes were gone, no deleted folder to even check if they were in there, and despite supposedly being synced to my iCloud, I cannot recover them that way either. I, as well as many others according to reviews, relied on the notes app a lot for keeping critical work, health and personal information sorted and accessible whenever needed and now I don’t think I will ever get them back. My notes ranged from information about prescriptions for myself and my kids and what reactions we’ve had to them or what their efficacy was like, budgets, documentation of an ongoing work harassment issue, etc and now I’m out all that information for seemingly no reason and with no solution.
This seems to be common as of late considering how many reviewers have reported the same issue with no update on the possibility of getting their notes back. Not sure what happened or how Apple plans to fix this. Use another app if you rely on digital notes for any vital information. I’ve seen others recommend Evernote & One Note and I’ll be trying both of those instead.
I would give 5 stars. But I believe the drawing aspect of this app could be improved.I vigorously use my iPad and my Apple Pencil and this app to draw diagrams and blueprints for my job in construction. The only thing I wish there was more of, is Shape configuration. (The ability to mirror, translate and rotate an already drawn shape or copy of one.) also the ability to save not so common shapes to some sort of memory bank for repetitions, or to allow for the “snap-to-shape” feature to just straighten the lines you’ve already drawn. (Currently you can only “snap-to-shape” basic shapes and angles.) Other than that I love this app and will continue to use it. I’ve figured ways around my above problems, but would love to see some of these problems addressed in a future update.
Line manipulation would be nice too! Hard to make specific curves with the current setup. Always snaps to a different and usually not needed shape or curve.
Also, can we improve the mapping a bit? Shouldn’t see as much lag as I do. Even with as many notes as I have. I get this is a free app that comes with IOS. But we need to update this more than once a year. Updates at least quarterly would be nice.
PRO: This app offers widely accessibility across all applications and Apple devices, standing out for its exceptional user-friendliness. It excels in quick information capture—whether sharing a delightful recipe discovered online by saving the link to Notes or preserving a screenshot to prevent it from being lost in the Photos app. A key strength lies in the app’s versatility to store various documents and files for effortless retrieval and access. This stands in contrast to the Files app, where content is often hidden, leaving users reliant on file names for identification. Additionally, organizing notes can be done with easy by creating personalized folders, spanning categories like personal, educational, professional, and financial, enhances the user’s ability to structure and manage content. Notably, the default notes folder is truly a brilliance feature; new notes appear in a designated folder by default, and users can maintain a clutter-free space by promptly relocating them to custom folders, leaving the yet-to-organize notes uncluttered.
CON: For enhanced practicality, the app could introduce an option allowing users to add new content to an existing note from the top. This adjustment would place the most recent contents at the beginning of notes, eliminating the need for users to scroll through older content to access and edit the latest information.
Between the features and the easy access / use I love this app ! Been using it since I first got an iPhone and more then often these past few years ! It’s my diary, calendar, alarm, notebook, goals, aspirations, dreams, etc ! The privacy available, the updates making it better and better with more features and didn’t change the way you use it which is where most apps downfall, but this one fixes bugs and adds features while staying authentic and original to itself 😮💨🙏🏽🤞🏽🫶🏽 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ! I share notes that can be opened from any device with it installed and add / remove / edit the note with notations and adjustments as needed and it can be shared unlimited to unlimited sources. Excited about the growth of this app and happy to share and recommend it ! Get it is worth it ! From taking down numbers names info over phone calls rather then looking for a writing utensil and paper ads risking losing it hallelujah thank you Jesus amen 🙏🏽 its my handy dandy notebook accessible at all times in all places with dates and times, my only recommendation for the creators is a time stamp history for editing the app and the option of viewing all edits on notes. Besides that I’m extremely satisfied .
I really like taking notes with this app for my homework assignments. Yet I think there’s room for improvement for one thing it would be nice to be able to combine and entire notes that are similar and I cannot find a function for that. I know there is a copy function, but is limited to the size not the entire document. Would be great if Apple could find a way to allow users to copy entire notes to another note for instance if I have notes on a science project, and I want to insert some definitions from another assignment, and I have a whole page to copy, it would be nice to be able to copy the entire document into my science project. Another improvement would be to provide a direct PDF function in notes so that note could be copied as a nice looking page versus a column. The column setting is also annoying in the email settings. Would be great if the PDF function would copy the note along the span of the iPad device. Those would be great additions to the app and hopefully Apple will consider update to add those features if they don’t take up too much room or data on the device.
Before iOS 16, I created a note with password and I can unlock it with my fingerprint and password. In iOS 16, the fingerprint unlock doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know why and I continue to use that note with password unlock. In iOS 17, whenever I open that locked note, iOS asks me to do two things: update password or cancel. I tap cancel and unlock the note with password. It works fine. But after several times, I can not bear being forced to choose “update password” or “cancel” every time I need that note. So I tap “update password”. Voila, my nightmare begins. I can no longer unlock my note either with fingerprint or password. I have reported the problem to Apple Service in China and they tell me it’s not Apple’s fault and they have no way to unlock my note. Fine, I try to reset the password in settings/notes. But it says resetting password won’t affect that note because its password was set “before”. Never have I any problems with my password until I update to iOS 17. So my situation is that my iPhone locks me out of my own notes. Also, I try to unlock that note on my MacBook but it says password is not correct.
So I know we have to go through settings, but for some reason the app still doesn’t recognize the changed password. Also when I use the Face ID it tells me that the note is unlocked, yet it stays on the locked screen. I feel like this is just a default in the app and I’m hoping that it gets fixed. Update: it has been a few months and the problem is still not resolved. The Face ID is now gone so I still can’t get into my old notes. The new password only works for new notes which is highly frustrating. I’m still waiting for this mishap to be fixed and it needs to be done immediately. — Update: it’s been about a year and now if you forgot the password you can’t get into the note and you can’t even use the Face ID either. I don’t understand the point of making or resetting the password if you’re only doing so, to get into the locked notes. Also, I can delete the locked note with the new password but I can’t get into the note. (Which doesn’t make sense because at first it would ask me for the old one.) At this point it doesn’t make much sense. Especially when I locked other notes with a different password that I remember but I have to use another one which is the one that I forgot. It doesn’t add up to what you’re saying.
I use this app to hand write study notes on my iPad and it’s normally fine. Except when one of the app starts to bug out. These bugs range from moving the Apple Pencil pallet off the side of your screen, removing the undo buttons, issues loading notes, random lines just appearing when scrolling through previous notes, and the list just goes on. Normally, this isn’t too bad of a collection of bugs to have happen but there are just SO many of them. In addition to the smaller bugs, there is one bug that is absolutely atrocious and that is when you are taking notes for several hours at a time (college student) and the app struggles to keep up w your writing. I will write a word or make some kind of stroke on the page and it will either not appear or appear then immediately disappear until I’m done writing my sentence. Not only that, but these bugs have been a problem since a couple years ago so I know they don’t update this app very often and it’s kind of frustrating. Yes, you can fix the bugs temporarily by closing and restarting the app however, it is only temporary. They can even start happening again a couple min after you reopen the app.
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