MacOS 15 laggy / delays with cut-paste

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    t4nvj88d2f · Member ·

    Hi @staff-frank and others,

    A quick update. The awful freeze-on-long notes problem appears to have abated after I moved to MacOS Sequoia 15.1.1 (issue first manifested on 15.0.1). Still on Simplenote 2.21.

    The good news: it appears like the longer notes that were causing Simplenote to choke up are now snappy again.

    I can only chalk it up to some interaction between Simplenote 2.21 and MacOS 15.0.1. So if you’re experiencing the same, hopefully moving to 15.1.1 will similarly help.

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    joebotha198 · Member ·

    Hi, after upgrading to macOS 15.2 I tested again. I still have the painfully slow behaviour.

    Pasting text causes 10+ sec delay.

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    lmpogoda · Member ·

    I’m still experiencing the same issues. The note that I cannot open in Mac App Store version has 201 008 chars.

  • staff-fred · Staff ·

    @joebotha198 and @lmpogoda thanks for your report. We’ll look into this.

  • staff-fred · Staff ·

    @joebotha198 @lmpogoda We’ll reach out to your email to investigate this case further. Thanks again for bringing this up.

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    malkiny · Member ·

    I’m having the same issue. I just updated my 13-inch 2018 MacBook pro to macOS Sequoia 15.2 and the Simplenote app (version 2.21, from the App Store) became largely unusable. I can open the app, but when I try to load a note it hangs on the beachball for minutes to hours. The symptoms are worse with longer notes. For reference, a note with 100,836 characters (without spaces) takes roughly 10 minutes to load. I have used simplenote daily for years on my macbook and iphone, and until upgrading to Sequoia it’s been without issue.

  • mikerockwell · Staff ·

    @malkiny thank you for reaching out about this! I’ve forwarded your case along to our developers in the existing bug report.

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    irinawang · Member ·

    Adding that this is happening to me as well. Extremely frustrating, as I rely on Simplenote daily. It’s just the Mac desktop version, but I prefer not to need to use the web app instead (which is working fine). Just recently updated to Sequoia 15.3 and using Simplenote 2.21 and it started with lagging whenever I pasted text, but now has escalated so that even clicking into longer notes will cause the spinning beachball and a lag of anywhere from 3-30 seconds depending on the note length.

  • mikerockwell · Staff ·

    @irinawang could you try downloading the Simplenote release that’s available through GitHub to see if the problem persists from there? There are a number of versions available, you’ll want to download either the .zip or .dmg release for macOS.

    Please let us know how it goes!

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