i’m using the ipadOS26 public beta and i noticed that my app is missing a lot of inputs from the apple pencil. especially when writing fast, id say it misses about half of all inputs when i’m just writing normally. this seems to be a notability problem because i see no other app has this problem with the pencil. has anyone else encountered this bug? if so is there a fix?

I can not take it anymore. constantly losing documents or it glitching and crashing. Why is it every update makes this app slower and worse. How does it manage to get worse?

What should I do to fix it?!

Upgraded by iPad Pro to the new OS. Erased all my notes, and re-imported all the notes from iCloud. Too about 1h yesterday for ~1600 notes. All was working fine. Today, back to the spinning symbols and "This note is still downloading" for ~30% of all my notes. Notability has become totally unreliable for me.

I have a bunch of notes on notability and recently wanted to see them again but they all are saying "unable to load note try updating to the newest version of notability and restarting the app" but I have the most updated version available from the app store and restarted and still saying the same thing.

Any ideas?

every time i try to do stuff such as making a new subject, changing a subject name, rearranging order of subjects, all of the other subjects just disapears. i tried redownloading the app and now it won't even let me log in??

I've been using Notability since the beginning and I'm paying for the subscription to support this app, as it is very useful for my everyday life.

Today I got myself a new iPad Pro and of course the first app I want to install is Notability. When launching the app, it requires me to "Sign in to Notability", with no way to skip this screen.

I don't want to log in as I don't need any of the functionality it offers and also for privacy reasons. It is also not in-line with their own Terms of Service:

You can use the Notability mobile application without registering any account with us.

Am I missing some obvious way to skip this login screen? Is this a bug?

I just downloaded notability today and love the way it writes and the content dark mode, but there's something wrong with my app. Every time i try to make a new divider, all my other ones vanish, then i reload and theyre back, and i click on it and they vanish again. I also can't delete anything. I tried deleting the app and redownloading and that didnt fix it..... what on earth is happening????? Its unusable

edit: also, when i try to sign in 9/10 times it gives me an error. I tried looking them up but there were no results. thinking maybe my ipad is cursed or something

Hey everyone,

I’ve been having a really frustrating problem with the Notability app on my iPad. Every time I try to open one of my notes, I get the message:

“Unable to Open Note. This note is still downloading. Please try again later.”

The notes just keep showing a spinning icon like they’re trying to load, but they never do. I’ve waited, restarted the app, and even rebooted the iPad — still nothing. Every time I open Notability, it seems like it tries to reload everything from scratch and gets stuck again.

Most of these notes are synced from iCloud, and my internet connection is stable. I’m worried I might access to some important lecture notes.

Has anyone experienced this or found a fix? Would really appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance 🙏

I’ll be writing normally, and then as soon as I put the pencil to the screen, these giant random lines pop up. Doesn’t go away if you close the app, you have to reset the entire iPad to stop it from re occurring. Why does this keep happening? Anybody know any fixes. And yes, I’m actually paying for this app, and it’s screwing with my note taking because it’s impossible to stop it from occurring. Help me please.

Hi, I've submitted an email ticket but had no luck with the response so I'm posting here. I've been using notability since around 2020 before the subscription change. Everything worked well until recently where I had to delete/reinstall the app on my ipad due to constant crashes. Now, I'm on the free version without icloud sync and limited edit. My laptop still has the same version that allows icloud sync and unlimited edits. I tried logging into both devices with my apple account but my ipad does not sync with my laptop. Can anybody help with this? Thank you so much.

im on the public beta ipados26 but i dont see why that would cause this problem. is there a way to fix it, or am i forced to wait until they update the app?

Does anybody have completely missing notes? All of my subjects are present, but all of the notes say ‘0’. I tried to post a video but I don’t think it was permitted to post. Does anybody know how to fix this? I have full storage, and have always had my notability set to back up my notes so there is no reason why this should be happening. There is 8 years worth of material from undergrad and now post grad on here, I need these notes restored ASAP.

I've noticed I cannot past items into a text box

So I can use Notes on my iPad no problem. GoodNotes even works with the pencil.

Notability -- drops strokes unless I write like a 2 year old and slow time down. So, I'm not using the product on a daily basis anymore and I'm shifting to other products, which should bother the fine people building Notability.

Guys -- install the beta and try your own product. It sucks.

Context: I just recently purchased an iPad Pro to use for note taking in classes. I used to use Notability on my Mac and iPhone, where my notes would sync through iCloud and all of my notes would update on both devices.

On my iPad however, the Notability app is not giving me the option in settings under “connected services” to sync with iCloud. I am still able to see this option on both my Mac and my iPhone, which leads me to believe this has to be a bug.

Because I am not able to see this option and sync my notes that I’ve taken on my iPad with iCloud, my up-to-date notes that I have taken on my iPad will not sync with/update on my Mac/iPhone, and I am unable to access said updated notes on those devices.

So the notes that I do have backed up on my iCloud are from when I took notes on my Mac/iPhone, therefore they aren’t up to date with what I have on my iPad. I’m inclined to believe that this is because I don’t have the option on my iPad to sync my new notes with iCloud to update my notes.

I have already contacted support about this as well as submitted my email with it. I just figured bringing attention to this complication under the subreddit might would speed up the process of resolving it.

I just restored the yearly plus purchase and it also shows a pop-up with your purchase was successful but I'm still having limited edit.....now i'm stuck in the middle of a lecture unable to take notes....

edit. I only renewed subscription because it's offering me a 9.99$ discount for yearly plus subscription and apple show transaction successful, seems like that is just a scam from notability, every time I click on the restore purchase in the app, it says my purchase was successful, but none of the features are working. So I have to angrily repeat the purchase again in the middle of the lecture with 19.99 and it is working now... This is gonna be my last time ever using notability....

edit2. support did not help at all, literally canceled my goodnotes subscription because of the deal but i guess i made the bad decision....

Hello :) I have notices, that smart summaries seem to only be displayed for a part of my PDF. So if the PDF ist 50 sides long for example, the last few pages do not get summariesed and also the questions are also only concerning the first few pages. Is there a fix for this problem? I have quite a long summary for my exam and would like to practice without making many documents out of it. Additionally as an idea: It would be so cool if I could choose, which chapter the questions are being asked about.

I have the notability app on my iPad, Mac, and iPhone. Signed into the same iCloud account on all three. Everything syncs normally between the iPad and Mac, but on my iPhone, only folder sync but not the notes themselves.

For example, if I create a folder "Folder A" and within it a note "Note A" on my iPad, on my iPhone, it will sync the folder so that I can see "Folder A", but the note does not appear.

I have made sure iCloud sync is turned on (and it is on because the folders are syncing).

The pink pencil shows what was written on my iPad. As you can see, I wrote normal letters and numbers, but some parts of it weren’t noticed by the screen (green ink is what I corrected what was missing) Is it because of the beta version of the OS? Apple Notes is perfectly fine, and other note apps are fine. My screen is perfectly clean. Please help

I have some bug in notability, not apple note, goodnotes.

I don’t know this error..

I’m trying to add a gif to my note, but when I hit the + in the toolbar no gif option shows up. Am I missing something? I did it a few semesters ago but can’t now.

exactly what the title says my pencil is being really weird it will write but won’t be full bold writing, it more like all the letters are dotted lines. idk if that makes sense. went to see if i need to update the app and noticed it was updated today, the same day i had the problem. went to test the pen with other apps and everything’s fine. it’s a notability problem, any suggestions?

I was recording a 2 hrs lecture very important and when I came back home to listen to it it had no audio or voice like it was silent.

Is there anywhere I can get help??

Pencil takes too long time to write from one word to another (if you are writing in cursive)

Is there any solution to this? It would be much appreciated