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Horrible.

When I went on to see my notes, all of my FREAKING passwords were gone, even my debit card. EVERYTIME I try to make a new note it kicks me out, please fix this. This has been happening for A YEAR. Just wow apple, now I don’t have access to my passwords. Stop ignoring reviews.

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I Can’t Remember My Old Password

Hi Apple Can please help me Get my Password Back Please and can You Make Password Account and only for Id Apple account and I’m making A Book Please Help me and put it In Settings And You can call it Notes History Passwords list and it be good for Your company and money And Help People like Me and The People Who Got Apple Phone and IPad and like Very Very Very Please and i’ll promise you I’ll give you a five star rating.😇🙏🏼
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NO!!!1!1!2!

it deleted ALL of my folders and i lost all my stuff im crying

ios17 locks me out of my own notes

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.
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Changing the password

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.
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Good enough to not need anything else

Notes has become so good across the Apple ecosystem that I’ve stopped looking at and trying other apps. There are bits that I like from other apps, but Apple Notes now has such strength across such a broad range of features that it’s probably the best around if all you use are Apple devices. It means one less subscription and one less worry about your app of choice being closed down.

It would be really helpful to have a proper web clipper and also more control over tables in terms of function and looks. Aside from that, I’m very happy. I’ve just spent quite a lot of time consolidating notes from Notion and Craft. Fab!!
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Notes stopped working

I love notes and have been using it for many years without any issues. Recently I opened notes and everything had disappeared. When I say everything, I mean entirely. None of the headings came up in folders and none of my notes were there. I can no longer access any folders like recently deleted, etc and whenever I try and create a new one it disappears when I save it. I have many very important notes in there and I’m going to be very disappointed if there’s nothing you can do to help. Has this happened to anyone before?
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Buggy Mess

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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