Evernote for iPhone and iPad Update: Major fixes and improvements, plus a new feature

Product updates | 13 Apr 201013 Apr 10 | By Phil Libin

102 comments

Great news. Apple just approved the newest version of Evernote for iPhone/iPad/iPod (v3.3.2). Here are the highlights of this version:

Big fixes

Fixed all known syncing and crashing bugs that affected some users of the previous version, including the notorious “u2″ sync bug. We started referring to that one as, “where the bug has no name”. Happily, we can stop now.
Significantly improved the sync performance on both iPhone and iPad, especially during the “Syncing headers” phase.
iPad version now geotags new notes, if location data is available
Fixed issues with some third-party apps integrations.
Several searching and maps improvements.
Improvements to the audio recorder on the iPad.
Evernote should run on iPhone OS 3.1.2 and above. The previous version required 3.1.3.

Full screen view

Finally, we added a much-requested new feature to the iPad version. You’ll now see a set of small arrows in the upper left corner of the note. Click them to toggle between the split-screen view and a new full-screen note view. This is great when reading a long note, viewing a big picture or scrolling through a PDF and works in both portrait and landscape modes.

Evernote 3.3.2 will start appearing in the AppStore over the next couple of hours, so please check for updates. Thanks for your patience during this upgrade cycle. The introduction of the iPad made everything a bit crazy for a few days, but it looks like things are back to normal. As always, please contact our support team if you have any problems and we’ll be happy to help. Look for lots of new features for both the iPad and iPhone versions in future releases and tell us how we can continue making Evernote even better.

[A quick update: you may still see the "u2" error under rare conditions on the iPhone for the next few hours. It'll go away for good tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, when we do a server update to clean up the last traces of the problem. You won't have to upgrade your iPhone version again; the server reboot will take care of it. In the meantime, this is a relatively mild bug. If you get a u2 error it means you just made an empty note on your iPhone. Just edit the note and add a few characters of text to the body (not just the title). That'll make it sync without problems. Don't just delete the empty note, because then you'll have to fish it out of the trash to edit it.]

Eric M.

The GUI needs to be cleaned up on the iPhone. When moving around Evernote the user interface “bounces” around. REALLY poor design. Keep the top and bottom bars the same look and size and color. The bouncing gives me a headache. Fix and I’ll subscribe yearly until then can’t use.
http://www.whitesharkphoto.com John Wikman

Seconding the earlier requests for a couple of keys…

1) Annotating PDFs / notes with handwritten notes.
2) Stylus/handwriting on ipad.

I’m about to pick up an iPad in the next day or two, and am pondering switching from OneNote to EverNote. I absolutely LIVE in OneNote…it’s the only application set to start automatically on all my PCs. I love a lot of the functionality of Evernote, but there are some key features of OneNote that have me shying away from Evernote, first among them the ability to screenclip (whether as a ‘print to..’ or a text copy/paste), then annotate with handwriting. For example, I have a weekly project status meeting. I need to have a copy of a table with project info, then annotate with handwritten notes during the meeting.
Yasser

How about bullets?? I love evernote on the iPad, but I’m a big bullet fan when taking notes because it helps me organize my thoughts. Any idea when we might see bullets, and indentations coming to evernote on the iPad?

Thanks!
Seth Thomson

Evernote for Ipad is crashing often. Any plans to resolve?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Seth you might want to try uninstalling/reinstalling Evernote.
http://www.orbis.info Jean-Francois Mayer

Like several other users, I do strongly suggest that the iPad version of Evernote should enable italics and bold. If this would be introduce, I would certainly go for a premium account. As long as it is not, I think the best option is to use Office2 along with Dropbox. But I have good hope that you will introduce the support of bold and italics on the iPad in a not too far future.
James Rogers.

The addition of basic formatting to the iPhone, but most especially the iPad, would be a huge boost. Having buttons for bullets, bold, italics, and justification would greatly speed up the process of note taking. PLEASE include this in a future update.
John

Evernote not working with latest Gold build of iOS 4.0. Multiple sync errors and notes can’t be loaded/read. Please fix ASAP!
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  John, we don’t currently support iOS4. We plan on supporting it when it is released.
jose

Not load the files with iPhone iOS4, gold version.

Error
NSURLErrorDoman (-1001)

Any suggestion ?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Jose, we do not currently support iOS4. We plan on supporting it when it is officially released.
  - Jose
    
    Andrew Sinkov, i have an update now, im install and now works excelent thanks Andrew im going to buy premiun account, ur work a great ! Congrats.
    
    Monterrey,Mexico.
    - Andrew Sinkov
      
      Jose, that’s great to hear. You should thank our awesome engineers.
Steve Jones

My evernote still crashes. It hangs my entire phone everytime I use it. Whilst doing various things. I have to hard reset the phone.
Steve Jones

Update: uninstalling and reinstalling the app as per an evernote faq i found seems to have not only fixed my problem but it’s faster! Great stuff.

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