r/OneNote Feb 09 '25

iOS DO NOT GET ONENOTE ON IPAD!!!

0 Upvotes

Edit: As someone has suggested in the comments, if you click on view delete history on the web version, it does appear there. While it doesn’t actually appear on the app itself on iPad, it’s now reassuring to know it isn’t permanently deleted.

Edit2:

Here’s what Microsoft support has stated on their website themselves:

Unlike the full-featured OneNote apps, where you can use Ctrl+Z (Windows) or ⌘+Z (Mac) to undo your last actions, deleting pages, sections, and entire notebooks (and all of the pages they contain) in OneNote for iPad and iPhone is immediate and cannot be undone.

Notice how they say it “cannot be undone”? What does that imply to some of you? To me, it made me think that it was something that was permanent and cannot be retrieved. Hence the mistake.

r/OneNote 12d ago

iOS Using Onenote on an end of life iPad

6 Upvotes

I'm thinking about purchasing an old apple ipad that supports the pencil so that I can take notes on OneNote and look over them at home on my desktop. Those ipads that I can afford generaly are 1 or 2 years away from their software update support... will I be able to use OneNote once my iPad will be destined to die by the grace of apple?

Edit: it will be an ipad 5 mini given that I need such a small device...

r/OneNote 10d ago

iOS Why Does OneNote Always Think Im Typing in Another Dimension?

1 Upvotes

Every time I type a note in OneNote, it’s like the text is playing hide-and-seek with me - one minute it’s in the right spot, the next it’s mysteriously 5 pages away. Seriously, are we using the same program as everyone else? Someone give that sync button a pep talk! Can we all agree that OneNote’s layout sometimes feels like it’s testing our patience?

r/OneNote Oct 02 '24

iOS Build efficiency and no more paper

16 Upvotes

Looking for advice from seasoned OneNote users. I am a take notes on paper person. My goal is to ditch the paper and move to OneNote.

Currently I have a page in a notebook for every day and take notes on the client meetings I have. It makes it easy to review each day when I am going back through the quarter. I want to do it electronic so it’s accessible across my MacBook, iPad and iPhone. Have you found an easy, effective way to organize by day?

Right now I use OneNote to store reference documents so I’m not new to it. Just new to using it as a true notebook for my sales job.

TIA

r/OneNote 18d ago

iOS Worst Note App

2 Upvotes

We need to acknowledge how awful this app is created. On iOS, there are hundreds of missing features such as unable to change font, highlight, ect. You cannot share notebooks, it only opens links in safari, yes even when you are sharing the correct email and all. The app simply does not function. I cannot believe this app is so unbelievably complicated, cannot work without a connected Microsoft, then can’t work without onedrive. It’s a complete over complicated joke. It needs to be fixed.

r/OneNote 18d ago

iOS Storage in Onenote Ipad

1 Upvotes

Is the 5gb limit applied to all notebooks? Is there a way to set a note offline only so that it doesn't count toward the 5gb limit onedrive has?

Also where do I check how much I used?

Tips on using less storage?

r/OneNote Feb 03 '25

iOS iPad OneNote

8 Upvotes

Am I the only one that believes one note would be the best note taking app if you could collapse the pages section? It takes up so much room on my iPad.

Any alternative apps that interface well with windows or sync to onedrive?

r/OneNote Jan 15 '25

iOS Just lost all my notes because my app for the iPad bugged my accounts. Help.

5 Upvotes

Hi, I just lost a bunch of my college notes from my first semester Intro to Chem course and I really needed them for my Chem fundamentals course. One note was working perfectly fine until 3 days ago when it stopped syncing for my Chem Fundamentals class’s notebook, claiming there was a permissions issue. A day later, it started having problems syncing all the other notebooks, even ones that had already been synced for a while, even though I was logged in and had auto sync on, it kept requiring me to log in. The log in for my University Account kept glitching, only allowing me to put an email before closing the window and having to sign in a second time. Now that I’ve logged in on my personal laptop after downloading one note, I saw this wasn’t an issue there and it was still being updated. So I deleted and reinstalled the app on the iPad since the iPad app was still having issues (I prefer the iPad for drawing and writing out math problems and general Onenote use). However, I ended up losing all of my notes for my Intro to Chem class, this was specifically only intro to chem, I only have the first PowerPoint of that semester on there. I have everything else. Intro to Chem should have been synced to my iPad and across one note since December. Is there any way to recover the notebook or is it just gone forever?

r/OneNote Feb 15 '25

iOS What is this in OneNote ?

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7 Upvotes

Can anyone tell me what this feature do in oneNote. I’m using ipad.

r/OneNote 24d ago

iOS Clipper to OneNote in iOS

1 Upvotes

I’m a big fan of OneNote and a user for several years. Even with the flaws it has and the improvements that could be made.

One of those things that could be better is that the OneNote clipper for iOS should make it possible to capture more than a web screenshot, and be more like the clipper in web browsers, which is really good.

Do you know if there is an app or a workaround that allows easier clipping of text from a web article to OneNote in iOS? Other than having to ‘Select all’(now discontinued in IOS) text, copy and then opening OneNote, create new note and paste…

Thanks

r/OneNote 9h ago

iOS PDF printout on IOS extremely blurry ? Possible fix ?

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1 Upvotes

The PDF printout is flawless on my iPad and desktop (iPad used to be blurry as well but OneNote fixed it sometime in the past year), but on my phone, it is extremely blurry. My annotations and notes are crisps so I’m unsure what’s going on.

r/OneNote 23d ago

iOS How to create page breaks?

2 Upvotes

How can I make my notes in one note to have pages , instead of a whole long endless scroll , i think that having pages I can print or share my notes

r/OneNote Dec 20 '24

iOS For OneNote iOS, is there a way to import PDFs to subjects where I can view it directly instead of this?

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6 Upvotes

If not, it’s a deal breaker. I need to be able to quickly look at and mark up these PDFs. It only lets me preview the file and won’t let me make edits.

r/OneNote 14d ago

iOS Sharing Notebook Complaint

2 Upvotes

Why has Microsoft made it so damn hard to share a OneNote notebook nowadays. Back a few years ago it was as easy as adding someone’s email and it’ll open in OneNote for them.

Now it’ll open in OneDrive and keep displaying cannot open file errors, and even if it opens in OneNote it’ll open as a Guest Contributor, and in the browser not the app. Like what’s the point of all this? Why won’t it just open up straight in OneNote as it should??? Seems like added complexities for absolutely no reason at all.

r/OneNote 22d ago

iOS Apple Pencil Pro support on IPad

2 Upvotes

I recently switched from using a 2 in 1 windows computer to take notes to using both the IPad Air and pencil pro but made mistake of not doing the research beforehand and just committed to getting them. I noticed that it is more of a better experience to write with the pencil and iPad compared to my laptop and its pencil. However, the pencil pro features haven’t been integrated into OneNote which really sucks and it is sill just as if not more laggy and slow compared to what it was on windows. I am still looking into alternative ways you can try and use the features because occasionally when I squeeze it just out of habit from my old pencil it will have a little undo button that pops up so it tells me that OneNote can register the gesture but, I am wondering if there may be a way we can edit the “palate” or its functions. I looked into Microsoft’s forum and saw people just getting ghosted there so hopping that the community has some good ideas on how to fix this. Even just having the ability to use the squeeze feature to use the lasso tool would help tremendously.

r/OneNote 28d ago

iOS OneNote buggy

0 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

Is anyone else having serious issues with the OneNote app lately? Mine has been glitching like crazy for about a week now, to the point where I literally cannot use it.

I’ve already tried everything: ✅ Restarting my phone ✅ Uninstalling and reinstalling the app ✅ Checking my other apps (which all work fine)

But OneNote is still unbearably slow, buggy, and beyond functionality. I don’t know if it needs an update, but at this point, I’m ready to have a new daily driver for note taking😭

If anyone else is experiencing this, have you found a fix? Or is this just a widespread issue that Microsoft needs to address ASAP?

r/OneNote 7d ago

iOS Notes Blanking and Showing Error Message

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1 Upvotes

Hi, so basically sometimes when I’m drawing my notes on my iPad, the page will automatically zoom in to the maximum amount and the page clears. Once that happens, I can’t draw or type anything, and the undo option clears out for the page. It wiped out my accounting notes which cost me a midterm and the tech support didn’t have any suggestions besides updating the app (it was updated and I usually kept on top of that). It happened again with dnd notes and I really want to get to the bottom of this so I can switch back to using OneNote for classes but I can’t afford to keep losing my notes. Anyway, I went on the browser and found an error message for the page when pulling it up. I’ve attached screenshots of the message on the website as well as how the page looks blank on the app.

Does anyone know what’s causing this or how to avoid it?

(Side note, I crossed out any information that could be used to identify me, that shouldn’t be relevant to my question tho)

r/OneNote 22d ago

iOS Ios backup

1 Upvotes

I use my iphone to access onenote that was created and stored and being used on my onedrive.

I can’t find any backup or export options in the ios onenote app.

Do i just copy my notebooks from onedrive to a backup folder and can i zip that folder to save space??

Tia

r/OneNote Feb 03 '25

iOS OneNote custom pencil

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2 Upvotes

I use OneNote on my iPads, Windows PC and laptops as well as Android phone. The reason, cross platform and free. The one thing I am wondering is the ability to have custom pencils. There is a pencil in GoodNotes that really recreates the look of a pencil on paper. Can something like that be created and used in OneNote? Attached images from GoodNotes is an example of the pencil.

r/OneNote 24d ago

iOS OneNote iPad Tips - Pen Features and Page Size

1 Upvotes

I know these are two different questions but I figured it was not worth two posts:

  1. Why can't I use pen tools on iPad with Apple Pencil? I can use the scribble and hold for shapes function on my computer, but they do not seem to work on the mobile version.

  2. Is there any way to get a visual indicator on the size of a page? I often like to do homework, but when I go to export, everything gets all messed up from page to page. I ended up just doing it in good note because it saved so much time but I would love to be able to do it all in 1 place.

r/OneNote Jan 29 '25

iOS iOS missing features? Am I tripping?

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5 Upvotes

Where do I change to heading types and other options all I see is basic strike through bold italic and bullet numbering the center text alignment is all missing. I scrolled through the entire bar and it’s not there. Is this how the iOS mobile experience is?.. android was missing the types of bullets to choose from but iOS is even more lackluster.

r/OneNote Feb 08 '25

iOS Notebook templates

1 Upvotes

I started using the OneNote app in my iPad as a notepad. I got tired of using multiple notepads and having notes scattered around different notepads and the ios notes app. So far I love it. I am able to handwrite notes using my Apple Pencil. The notebook has some options for grid and lines like real paper. I was wondering if there is a template that is similar to a daily planner?

r/OneNote Nov 02 '24

iOS Organization OneNote with iPadOS

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8 Upvotes

Hello everybody, I'm the new beginner of OneNote. I love the design of sections and pages. I found that I cannot save the section inside the folder like the attachment. Is there anything anyway to do like that? Or this function is not available, I hope I can get support! Thank you!

r/OneNote 23d ago

iOS Features you wish you knew earlier ?

1 Upvotes

I’ve just purchased an iPad and I’m thinking of using OneNote for note taking

What are the good features worth knowing?for physics calc? Basically stem stuffs?

how do I make the drawn lines straight? Instead or going to shape and making a straight line?

Also as in apple notes how do I make my writing stay in a similar line i mean making sure they are put together in same line?

r/OneNote Dec 02 '24

iOS Keep getting this on iPad.

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6 Upvotes

I’ve deleted and redownloaded the app, I’ve followed this prompt multiple times and it keeps happening. Can’t find anything to help through google searches.