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With edit protection enabled in Notes under Settings, I can still change the title of a note, and have the edit saved. This was uncomfortable to realize. Is edit protection supposed to protect all aspects of a note from being changed or tampered with?

Thank you. I did this, and ended up at the same point again.

I edited this post to remove unhelpful editorializing I posted earlier this morning, but left the factual content.e So, in Evernote I have a notebook named "Reference/Not Urgent" and have set the notebook to be available offline. Started the app at 8:49am. No download progress bar. As of 9:14am, no progress bar. As of 9:18am, finally a download progress bar.

@PinkElephant, those are good points, but to my way of thinking, these types of discussions are best had - and addressed - during beta testing, not accompanying a production rollout that is supposed to (presumably) make the application more user-friendly.

Unfortunately, no. The progress bar is closer to the end on the right-hand side of the app. Maybe today...

It is not finished - yet.

I keep several notebooks offline, as I often need access to content, but do not always have access to wifi or hotspot connectivity, and have done this for several years, with no problems. As the Evernote for iOS app matured, so did my reliance on it, and happiness with it. Until ver 10.x. We all know what a disaster ver 10 has been, but only tonight did it occur to me to document what I was seeing, to put some level of objectivity to what I have been experiencing. My biggest offline notebook contains between 10k and 11k notes, but that generally was not a bottleneck. But the ver 10.x white elephant in the room has a different, and much lower standard, of functionality. I took a screenshot at 11:17pm, with the green download progress bar not visible for the "Reference/Not Urgent" notebook. As soon as the green download progress bar appeared (11:24pm), I took another screenshot. 7 minutes. Never - ever - did any of the older versions perform at this godawful, abysmal speed. The best part? I didn't think to document this until 10 minutes after I had launched the app and waited for the green bar to show up. 17 minutes! Please Evernote, @Shane D., can you explain how this is considered acceptable?

Almost forgot: In previous versions of EN for iOS, there was a switch under settings to "Sync only on Wi-Fi" WHY is this not yet in ver 10.x? Wondered why is was getting "you're nearing your data limit" texts from Verizon. I have to go into Settings / Evernote / Turn cellular data off. So it's all or nothing? As far as functionality goes, I'm really starting to think this version should have never made it past QA, or even Beta...

I cannot thank you enough: I downloaded ver 10 for Windows last week, thinking it would be an improvement. But it's like regressing to ver 2, or 3, of the Windows client. No, it's actually worse than that. If developers or software managers would at least reach out to users via this forum, they would be able to learn what we really want, need, and don't want. In that sense, we are a great resource that the company chooses to ignore. Sigh.....

I appreciate your summary of using the app. I too upgraded by accident, and was very unhappy with the app's appearance generally, and still am. My experience thus far: Making certain notebooks available offline has been amazingly slow, inconsistent, unreliable, and the download speed... it is really horrendous. I suppose it's fair to say I got spoiled by earlier versions of the app being more informative with regard to download progress - up until (i think) 5 years ago, the iOS app would even show the size of each notebook - I found it quite useful. One of the deficits for me, is the lack of an activity indicator showing download activity happening. Previous versions had the animated "spinning wheel" next to the wifi symbol (upper left hand corner on my phone). But just using the app to scroll through notes/notebooks is really quite fast - I was surprised. Initially, searching by tag in the first version of 10 released was horrendous - often over 10 seconds to get search results using only 1 tag. The UI design is good, generally.

Have you posted your concerns in the "issues-bugs" forum?

I have about 95 GB free on my phone.

After searching this forum, it seems I am encountering an issue that is the opposite of what others have reported. On opening a note, I can edit the content, even though I have not tapped the "Edit" button. And even though under Settings>Notes, Edit Protection is selected. This seems like a potential issue, but if anyone has encountered this, is there a fix? Thanks

Good Morning, @PinkElephant. I have a notebook that contains approximately 10,400 notes, and when I choose to make it available offline, the process never, ever completes. In the most recent iteration, the 'make available offline' process had just stopped sometime overnight. This has happened every night since last Friday. In several instances, on starting the app, this notebook shows as being not at all offline, even though the 'make available offline' option is greyed out. And no matter how long the app remains open (30 minutes at a time, so far), the download option never resumes. I hope I cleared that up a little?

So I have a notebook containing approximately 10k notes. This morning marks the 6th time I have seen Evernote v10.1 (1107121) go through this irritating and useless pattern of behavior. This app seems to prove the axiom of "New and Improved means just 'new'." This experience feels like going from version 1.5 to version 0.74... I was trying to like the new UI, I really was. But then this? I frequently use my Evernote content offline, and as such, the app - and service - are becoming almost worthless. Is there any clarity as to when Evernote might try to fix this? The old version had it's quirks, but was dependable and functioned properly. What the hell has happened to Evernote?

Thank you for replying, only wish I'd replied to you sooner.

Hello, I have been away from the forums for several months, and this last week was surprised by the version 10 download - I built a new PC, and absentmindedly downloaded ver 10.x, thinking it might be a huge step forward. Am I alone in thinking this application is a pile of kludge? I removed ver 10, and installed ver 6.25.1.9091 - because the newer version did not seem to store a copy of my database locally, there appear to be features in 6.25 that are absent in 10 - can someone say how in any sense the newer version is better than the older one? Thanks - feeling kind of irritated at the moment - ugh

Thank you for addressing this - the change has been maddening.

Hello, When sorting notes by date created, the newest Notes show up at the top. When sorting by title, the sort order is reversed. I would like to request that short order be customizable. I use dates (in the format of 161203, for a note created today), in the titles of my notes, and it would be very useful to be able to see the newest notes at the top, not just the bottom.

@Austin G, this was one hell of a lengthy process - optimizing the database - I had no idea it would be over an hour of "optimizing" but yet, the application has not stumbled once since... Thank you for the information.

Hey @Austin G, thanks for the advice and questions. I had removed and reinstalled Evernote - and regret not mentioning that in my original post. The issue continued - and most often, what triggers the freeze is creating a new note to begin typing in it - and try (to type) but the application freezes, and I have to wait several seconds at least before I can begin using the application again. The PC runs Windows 7, and has 8GB of RAM.

In version 6.0.6 and Windows 7, this is frequently what I see in the Evernote window title - because Evernote frequently is unresponsive, and thus unusable. This behavior seems to be a more frequent occurrence now than in earlier versions - has anyone else encountered this? Thanks.

this issue occurs with ver 6.0.6 also. Have logged a support ticket (#1601816)

I can confirm this happens - just created 30 - 40 lines of gibberish in a new note, pasted a photo at the end of the text - the bottom of the note - and was immediately taken back to the beginning of the note - at the top. I created support ticket #1601816, and will advise of progress (or lack thereof).

It's easy enough to copy the note contents to Notepad++ and use the TextFX plugin to sort alphabetically, and then copy back into Evernote. Did that over the weekend and it took all of .. 2 minutes? Besides, there are plenty of applications that do this already...