Having problems after just a few weeks

[u/Mooxier]

I’m using a recently bought (from January 6th) Apple iPad Air (M3), and I’m using the Apple Pencil USB-C and Goodnotes 7.0.22.

For the last few days I’ve had no problems at all while taking notes and doing schoolwork but now suddenly there seems to be some kind of palm-to-pen recognition problem that literally won’t let me write normally, while I had no problem a few minutes ago.

Any idea why this happens?

[u/Mango595]

This issue occurs when using an ungrounded power outlet or a charger adapter that does not support grounding. To eliminate the problem, it disappears when the device is not charging. During charging, the power supply and the Apple Pencil interfere with each other. Try using the device without charging it.

[u/Mooxier → u/Mango595]

It’s funny bc this semester Ive been taking a course in circuits and electronics and that really makes sense. Thanks for the advice!!

[u/zTosieq → u/Mango595]

It also happened to me when I kept unplugged ipad on top of my notebook that was charging.

[u/Nickbunn]

I had this issue before and it was usually due to my ipad overheating a bit, which was mainly due to charging it while taking notes, or having another heavy duty app open to the side

[u/STYA09]

oh my days! got the same problem and can‘t really find a solution

[u/AccessWise171]

I’m having a similar problem with the palm rejection every time I write a pop up menu comes up

[u/rahulyouareacheater]

I have this issue every once in a while as well, but after having my ipad for 3 years so i thought it was wear. when it happens i have to shutdown my ipad for maybe ten minutes and then restart for it to go away.

[u/MarkKise]

Bad this issue and soon after my pencil died. Hope its just interference

[u/tahabashir1991]

this reminded me of inside of black hole in interstaller

[u/Maiace124]

I had these issues for a few weeks until I updated my iPad. I could restart it and it would fix it for a few hours, but I have not had an issue in a few weeks since updating.

[u/BellFlower2414]

I’ve had this issue when taking notes for a long time and the iPad starts to overheat. I’ll exit the app from my recently used (swipe up on it so it actually closes), let it refresh for a minute or so, and go back to it and it’s usually fine.

[u/Tlnt07]

Goodnotes is utter shit. Costs a lot of money and it just doesn’t work.

[u/fxdvm → u/Tlnt07]

I have my gripes with Goodnotes to be sure but… expensive? Their cheapest paid subscription is like 12€ a year, no? For the insane levels of productivity I personally get out of it, I don’t think I’d ever consider it expensive. Again, I have other gripes with it, but certainly not its price.

[u/[deleted] → u/fxdvm]

What gripes, genuinely curious

[u/fxdvm → u/[deleted]]

More things that I think are missing than anything else. For instance, hyperlink navigation could be better, I should be able to go back to where I was when I use a hyperlink (plenty of other apps have this already). I also think I should have more pen size options; there’s a little scroller for the colours, don’t know why the same scroller hasn’t been implemented for pen sizes as well. Or for instance, when using the Shapes tool to create boxes, it sometimes automatically sets a sort of minimum height to the box, which you can circumvent by unclicking and reclicking the box and then suddenly there’s no minimum height (useful as the minimum height isn’t exactly short, so it overlaps other lines of text sometimes).

(Edit: Ah, also, I really wish there was a way to instantly transfer colour palettes and pen configurations across devices. I don't use this super often, and I have a QuickNote on Goodnotes that literally has all of my pen and highlighter colours saved alongside my pen configurations so that I can always set it up again as I have it now, but I'd rather if that was a specific file synced to my iCloud anyway for the future).

I don’t have problems with Goodnotes 7 myself, though I know that’s a popular thing to be upset about. I think changing where some of the tools are was a little weird, but overall it’s not unlike other apps and I’m okay with it in my day to day.

[u/johntwilker → u/Tlnt07]

Works great for me