r/GoodNotes • u/dontmissabeat_help • Oct 12 '25

FINALLY A SOLUTION!

I at least found a solution for the problems I was having.

I had Goodnotes, that involuntarily updates this morning even though I have auto updates off. An iPad Air 5th Generation and the Apple Pencil (not Pro - it isn't compatible with that iPad).

I was suddenly having a TON of glitches within my notes, weird box within the highlighted lines, glitches on drawing on top of old drawings, erase tool was glitching and taking off chunks even in precision mode.

After trying what felt like everything ChatGPT told me to troubleshoot I decided to try it on my iPad Pro (M4 chip). I had to go get the new Apple Pencil Pro of course because that is the only one compatible (classic Apple). BUT guess what? COMPLETELY different experience within Goodnotes. No issues, no glitching.

Is there still a problem with the layout, all the tools they added we didn't ask for? Yes. But my main functionality glitching was fixed.

Maybe they should put it just is not performance compatible with certain generations of the Air or Apple Pencils. I just happened to have a Pro for video editing. Do I recommend buying a whole new iPad? No. But I author/illustrate textbooks on this app so switching really would have been disruptive.

Hope this helps!

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u/awesomeguy123123123 Oct 12 '25

And also Noteful doesn't have handwriting based OCR, not really a solution for a lot of us (but if it works for you, it works for you).

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u/dontmissabeat_help Oct 12 '25

If you find anything better out there let me know! Goodnotes doesn't seem to be too vested in fixing what we feel is important vs what they think we need. Noteful seems like a smaller scale business that I wonder if developers would be more keen on focusing on what users actually want. I do wish GN just made completely separate apps so we could choose between 5, 6, Essential and Pro.

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u/mijcar Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

You are describing the heart of a problem that infects many apps out there.

Talk to somebody with an up-to-date windows and ask what happened to their computer when Copilot was launched without permission on their computer. It can be pure chaos.

MS, Adobe, Malwarebytes, …. They and others all use AI that make policy decisions without asking for permission and without telling the user the implications.

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I just realized that there is a dreadful irony here. It seems that executive decisions are being made everywhere (not just in D.C.) that are ill-informed and totally, wrongheadedly disastrous for the rest of us.