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.

> I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s how an iOS intern would implement it.

A bad one maybe

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

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.

>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.

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.

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.

Not just proper nouns. Often it tries to autocorrect a real but less-commonly-used word to a more common but completely different word.

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).

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.

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

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

I cannot reproduce that Notes crash.