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On Notes: 1. If you copy some text 2. Select other text 3. Paste the text you copied to replace the selected text Notes will crash. This has been known for

On Notes: 1. If you copy some text 2. Select other text 3. Paste the text you copied to replace the selected text Notes will crash. This has been known for years. Also if you turn off all suggestions in Spotlight on iOS and just use it as an app launcher, it will still take seconds for Spotlight to show you the results. For something that's supposed to be an indexed look up.

geden 2y ago
I cannot reproduce that Notes crash.
jeffhuys 2y ago
I can't reproduce the crash. Does it happen every time for you or only after a few times?
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whywhywhywhy 2y ago
Select/Copy/Paste has been bad from the start on iOS, another I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.
- meindnoch 2y ago
  >I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs. I wish they implemented backspace like they do with fine scrubbing on seekbars. i.e. you could move your finger up & down while holding the backspace key to select the granularity of deletion between letters, words and paragraphs.
- ljm 2y ago
  And the auto complete on proper nouns. I'm typing someone's name and it'll often get corrected and will take more than one attempt for what you actually intended to stick. No, Ellie isn't a typo and I didn't actually mean Emma.
  - thedanbob 2y ago
    Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.
- markus_zhang 2y ago
  Never used an iPhone, but TBF these functionalities are equally hard on Android phones I used (but I never used any "higher end" phones such as Pixel). I came to the conclusion that human fingers are not exactly the best tools for them. Not sure about iOS, but Android has sort of magnifier when users start to select so they can clearly see what characters they are selecting. It definitely helps. However, what I should want is some sort of arrow keys that I can press to select characters instead of relying on my fingers.
mrweasel 2y ago
Notes on my laptop would take minutes to load, it was only fixed in the latest macOS release, after more than a year.
cellularmitosis 2y ago
I keep annual journals in Notes and I’ve noticed (on iOS) that the keyboard becomes increasingly laggy as the year drags on / as the note length increases. I can only assume they are synchronously flushing the file to disk on the main thread during the keyboard callback handler. I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.
- guappa 2y ago
  > I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it. A bad one maybe
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LeftHandPath 2y ago
I wonder why they don't bother fixing it. Clearly it hasnt hurt their bottom line much, but you'd think they'd sell more phones if they were still the kings of "it just works" (and they aren't).
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henry_viii 2y ago
On Mail: Cannot get notifications for new mail on iOS. On Languages: Cannot swipe-to-type and dictate in less spoken languages even though this has been possible on Android for over a decade.
jug 2y ago
Hmm. Can’t reproduce Notes on neither iOS 18.3.1 nor iPadOS 18.3.1

geden 2y ago

I cannot reproduce that Notes crash.

jeffhuys 2y ago

I can't reproduce the crash. Does it happen every time for you or only after a few times?

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whywhywhywhy 2y ago

Select/Copy/Paste has been bad from the start on iOS, another I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.

meindnoch 2y ago
>I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs. I wish they implemented backspace like they do with fine scrubbing on seekbars. i.e. you could move your finger up & down while holding the backspace key to select the granularity of deletion between letters, words and paragraphs.
ljm 2y ago
And the auto complete on proper nouns. I'm typing someone's name and it'll often get corrected and will take more than one attempt for what you actually intended to stick. No, Ellie isn't a typo and I didn't actually mean Emma.
- thedanbob 2y ago
  Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.
markus_zhang 2y ago
Never used an iPhone, but TBF these functionalities are equally hard on Android phones I used (but I never used any "higher end" phones such as Pixel). I came to the conclusion that human fingers are not exactly the best tools for them. Not sure about iOS, but Android has sort of magnifier when users start to select so they can clearly see what characters they are selecting. It definitely helps. However, what I should want is some sort of arrow keys that I can press to select characters instead of relying on my fingers.

mrweasel 2y ago

Notes on my laptop would take minutes to load, it was only fixed in the latest macOS release, after more than a year.

cellularmitosis 2y ago

I keep annual journals in Notes and I’ve noticed (on iOS) that the keyboard becomes increasingly laggy as the year drags on / as the note length increases. I can only assume they are synchronously flushing the file to disk on the main thread during the keyboard callback handler. I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.

guappa 2y ago
> I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it. A bad one maybe

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LeftHandPath 2y ago

I wonder why they don't bother fixing it. Clearly it hasnt hurt their bottom line much, but you'd think they'd sell more phones if they were still the kings of "it just works" (and they aren't).

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henry_viii 2y ago

On Mail: Cannot get notifications for new mail on iOS. On Languages: Cannot swipe-to-type and dictate in less spoken languages even though this has been possible on Android for over a decade.

jug 2y ago

Hmm. Can’t reproduce Notes on neither iOS 18.3.1 nor iPadOS 18.3.1