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Very annoying and diminishes the user","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"pain","weight":0.97062564,"occurredAt":"2026-06-26T19:42:17.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.88,"sentiment":-1,"confidence":0.51629025,"matchedPatterns":["frustrating","product:Notability"],"statement":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Frustrating update.","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Frustrating update","body":"Latest update introduced a significant change to Apple Pencil functionality with no way for the user to revert to the old system- press used to erase and now brings up a mini menu to switch between every tool… except the eraser. Very annoying and diminishes the user experience. The AI integration was annoying enough but at least was ignorable, but this is beyond frustrating.","offTopic":false},{"id":"a0b3db3f-03af-48ca-aed0-43a60ce453cd","excerpt":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — New squeeze feature — Why on earth would you do that. Now can’t take notes efficiently and have to manually switch to eraser feature with absolutely no setting anywhere to turn the useless feature off. That is the point of a toolbar at the top, you don’t need two of them. Please fix it.","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"pain","weight":0.8184684,"occurredAt":"2026-06-18T02:54:02.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.76,"sentiment":-1,"confidence":0.46503887,"matchedPatterns":["manual_process","product:Notability"],"statement":"Now can’t take notes efficiently and have to manually switch to eraser feature with absolutely no setting anywhere to turn the useless feature off.","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — New squeeze feature","body":"Why on earth would you do that. Now can’t take notes efficiently and have to manually switch to eraser feature with absolutely no setting anywhere to turn the useless feature off. That is the point of a toolbar at the top, you don’t need two of them. Please fix it.","offTopic":false},{"id":"865d46dd-27fb-4fd2-a3c5-aa38271f072f","excerpt":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — bad update — reverse the apple pencil update PLEASE or give a option to change it back. it’s not more convenient it’s actually quite annoying","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"pain","weight":0.56031835,"occurredAt":"2026-06-24T15:54:26.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"problem_report","painScore":0.88,"sentiment":-1,"confidence":0.29804167,"matchedPatterns":["frustrating","product:Notability"],"statement":"it’s not more convenient it’s actually quite annoying","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — bad update","body":"reverse the apple pencil update PLEASE or give a option to change it back. it’s not more convenient it’s actually quite annoying","offTopic":false},{"id":"efeaee27-1eb7-4755-94b1-e33eebdad696","excerpt":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — *warning* June 1, 2026 update BREAKS — Starts now with cloud notability, now the name of the app better be NOT-ability. SUCKS.\n\nUpdate new flaws:\nThe duplicate notes has the SAME NAME as the original. Genius idea?\n\nTo select a word or character now has been changed to something that is ","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"pain","weight":0.532,"occurredAt":"2026-06-18T01:54:55.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"other","painScore":0.4,"sentiment":-1,"confidence":0.38,"matchedPatterns":["product:Notability"],"statement":"This update makes Apple Pencil unusable.","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — *warning* June 1, 2026 update BREAKS","body":"Starts now with cloud notability, now the name of the app better be NOT-ability. SUCKS.\n\nUpdate new flaws:\nThe duplicate notes has the SAME NAME as the original. Genius idea?\n\nTo select a word or character now has been changed to something that is wierd, no longer using the blue dots.\n\nTo resize the text box is also broken. Now you have to tap and hold which takes a long seconds. \n\nWho is the genius behind this redesign? This update makes Apple Pencil unusable. Just use your finger, save money, do not need to get Apple Pencil.","offTopic":false},{"id":"5c35fa67-17c4-415e-bb5e-241273b454c6","excerpt":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Why would you do that?! — I used this app every day for heavy note taking. Love the templates and the handwriting is smooth and natural… BUT with this last update and the change to the pencil squeeze feature, it left me furious. I spent half an hour trying to retrain myself to adjust to","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"request","weight":0.38,"occurredAt":"2026-06-20T10:27:28.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"other","painScore":0,"sentiment":0.23076923,"confidence":0.38,"matchedPatterns":["product:Notability"],"statement":"Who in the world is making these ridiculous UX decisions?","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — Why would you do that?!","body":"I used this app every day for heavy note taking. Love the templates and the handwriting is smooth and natural… BUT with this last update and the change to the pencil squeeze feature, it left me furious. I spent half an hour trying to retrain myself to adjust to having to squeeze, the select the eraser from the mini and erase but honestly, I use that squeeze to erase so frequently that it became completely miserable to use for me. \n\nAt least give us the option to configure it back to the old way in the settings!\n\nThat was on the heals of another chance that added another step to something I do all the time which is select a template. When you go select a template, it used to be a quick two tap operation. I would hit apply template and immediately see my templates, and select the one I use EVERY DAY. Now, I have switch off the generic templates tab to my templates every time. Who in the world is making these ridiculous UX decisions?\n\nUnbelievable.\n\nBack to pen and paper for me, I guess.","offTopic":false},{"id":"2c898ac2-bbd3-4d7c-a65f-51bd4eaaccda","excerpt":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — DO NOT BUY — The Notability team RUINED the Apple Pencil in the latest update. Erasing no longer works properly. Can’t believe there is no setting to change it back. I can’t believe my $150 subscription went to waste overnight.","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id360593530?see-all=reviews","role":"pain","weight":0.30061784,"occurredAt":"2026-06-21T16:40:17.000Z","sourceKey":"appstore_global","sourceName":"App Store (English storefronts)","credibility":0.72,"venue":"App Store US/Notes & documents","intent":"other","painScore":0.17142858,"sentiment":-0.42857143,"confidence":0.256625,"matchedPatterns":["product:Notability"],"statement":"I can’t believe my $150 subscription went to waste overnight.","title":"Notability: AI Notes & Planner — DO NOT BUY","body":"The Notability team RUINED the Apple Pencil in the latest update. Erasing no longer works properly. Can’t believe there is no setting to change it back. 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