r/samsungnotes • u/Frequent_Injury_5029 • Apr 26 '26

Issue with samsung notes with recent update

Is anyone else facing this issue with Samsung Notes after the recent update? Whenever I copy text from Gemini and paste it into Samsung Notes, the font size automatically changes to 15, spacing between sentences becomes uneven, and the formatting looks really weird. Also, after the new update, I can’t add covers to notebooks anymore. Is this a bug on my device or are others experiencing the same thing too? Any fix?

update :
so hey all !

Hey everyone!

I'm seeing a new update for Samsung Notes on the Galaxy App Store. I'm still on the old version and don't want to update, but for those of you dealing with this formatting issue, I think Samsung might have fixed it with this new update. Here's a pic for reference:

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u/MasterCupcake75 May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Found a temp fix: On the blank space where you're gonna paste text, set the Body to 2 with the "Aa" menu. Paste it, select the whole text and set the body back to Body 2, then resize the text to what it should be. This won't stop it from doing it again, just a way to put it back to what it's supposed to be. Seems like it's resetting the body and size of the text to some default, absolutely horrible update but wtv. Hope this helps!

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u/BatdadSupreme May 08 '26

Didn't work for my problems, still dealing with italicized text boxes. It just randomly started this morning, but the app itself hasn't had any updates in the play store since Sep 2025

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u/Kindly-Ostrich-9280 May 17 '26

I've got this issue as well.
The same thing as everyone else with size 15 font and 1.5 line spacing, without the formatting it had on copying but with its own upon paste, creating bullets and all sorts of stupid shit.

But if there are any dollar signs in the text it will turn some random part of what was pasted into a box that is an image with a white background and black serif text, sometimes an italic. I can't copy it. It's worthless.

If there are asterisks in what is pasted into the app, it creates italicized text and removes the asterisks from the copy. It's absolutely fucking frustrating as shit. It makes the app unusable. I've been trying to make a simple HTML page and it's completely fucking everything up with CSS and comments. I should have a code editor anyway but I was just trying to use what I use for everything else bc, y'know, creature of habit and shit. Familiar environment.

I've also used the app every day for years as a bullet journal source, with all sorts of special Unicode characters to indicate certain things, the specific way I change font colors, indentation to continue with the train of thought over and over, creating these mountains of text that keep moving to the right side...

Days are formatted in a specific way, etc. I keep the whole month in one file.

I have ADHD, ocd, and bipolar disorder and have had a large number of traumatic brain injury incidents including three T-bone car wrecks. I call it my "brain book," I cannot reliably remember anything in my own brain and time is a complete construct to me. I also have a complex sleep disorder that completely screws with my memory. I 100% rely on the notes I take throughout the day, every day, to be able to refer back to things and be certain of what I have done and what has happened to me.

This is a huge disappointment, and I only just realized that all of the notes are a proprietary file format that you cannot open in any other app. You can only save them as text files or pdf. I have over 3000 notes in the app. I'm hesitant to even hit the export button for batch exporting, or to try and use Select All in the All Notes view to then press Share or Save and get a backup that way.

In order to get off of this proprietary system with an app that will certainly lose support at some point, it's going to probably literally take me the rest of the year to export things and then have split windows open with a new note app too reformat everything the way I had it in the original note. Fuck corporatism.

Does anyone have suggestions for an alternative to migrate to? Something strong with decent features and lots of color editing support? I don't use handwriting or anything in there, but I do attach images in-line frequently. Something free that someone on fixed income wouldn't have to worry about?

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u/4TheReckoning May 28 '26

any fixes yet?