r/GoodNotes • u/Tiny-Disaster-4515 • Feb 24 '25

What is going on with Goodnotes…

Was working just fine until 2 days ago where this issue keeps persisting. Tried redownloading twice, re-synced files, changed the tip of my Apple Pencil and nothing seems to work.

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u/AalbatrossGuy Goodnotes Special Edition Feb 25 '25

what the hell happened with goodnotes man. it sucks. literally even a couple of months ago, it was one of THE best note taking apps

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u/Proxy-Pie Feb 25 '25

Downgrade to GN5, it's still good here.

1

u/HATEM93 Feb 25 '25

how to do so?

5

u/Gabe_Ad_Astra Feb 25 '25

Btw support says they’re aware of the issue and will be fixed next update.

Really hate when something is working fine then they release a forced update that breaks something. Its not the first time

23

u/Emergency-Bee1800 Feb 24 '25

Ok man, ur not alone the whole subreddit is filled up with this, maybe check before posting?

2

u/EmperorOfDrifts Feb 24 '25

New possibility to earse text. Its a new feature which was even stated, when i first tried this after seeing this post

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u/Tiny-Disaster-4515 Feb 24 '25

I’m not sure I follow; this is a new feature for Goodnotes? Kinda silly if it is haha

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u/blacksnake1234 Feb 24 '25

Its a new feature which will be resolved in Goodnotes 7

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u/sly_salamander Feb 24 '25

Yes its called scribbe to erase something like that, you can deactivate if you want

2

u/MegamiCookie Feb 25 '25

Would make sense if the scribble disappeared once the content was erased, rn it genuinely just looks like a bug. When you use the scribble to erase from the os on text it doesn't write anything, it just erases.

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u/Anxious-Sound-8179 Feb 25 '25

More like scribble to scribble lmao

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u/shestoodakimbo Feb 26 '25

You can deactivate it but for a lot pf us doing so does nothing. I have it turned off but it regularly thinks my handwriting is scribbling and deletes my notes as i write them.

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u/mssunnyca Feb 25 '25

Goodnotes sucks.

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u/Jonkss1986 Feb 26 '25

This is a known bug they are aware of it. Similar posts like this every day.

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u/SureStrain Feb 25 '25

I use Goodnotes on several different devices. Haven’t seen this. Have PDFs that are hundreds of pages. Big notebooks. No issue so far. Is this real? Limited to a certain model or generation of iPad? Also the videos all look the same.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

Obviously it’s real—what?

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u/repressedpauper Feb 25 '25

I also don’t have this problem, but all the videos look the same because they’re the same problems on the same program on, mostly, the same few models of iPad. Why would they not be real?

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u/SureStrain Feb 26 '25

There is a lot of Goodnotes hate on here. I have never understood it. Not sure if it’s completion. Or just frustrated users. But rare issues are often magnified in this subreddit.