Please give us an option to change the pen color after drawing a shape without changing the color of that exact same shape. It’s so frustrating. I want to be able to draw an arrow in red and then switch back to a black pen without the red arrow switching to black too. You might say: just deselect the arrow. Well, it doesn’t work. You can‘t deselect it. Selection stays forever. The only workaround is to select the text tool, write some letters and switch back to the pen tool. That takes too much time!!! Please add this feature. It‘d be so intuitive.

I have recently updated the OneNote app on my IPad to version 16.42 (20100803) and the app suddenly bloats my storage, by increasing in size (cache I suppose) from about 4gb to 15gb including data within minutes!!! The app starts freezing and my device tells me I am running out of space. This happens even for simple notes, no images. Closing notebooks temporarily restores the app to a decent size, but then soon thereafter it increases in size again. I believe there is some bug which keeps creating data in the background. Please update the app fixing this issue ASAP!!! I need the app to take notes at university and all my work is on it!

In iOS OneNote Apps it is not possible to use correctly "." (dot/point) in notebook names like
"1.1 page"
"1.3 page"

You can create such a notebook name, but it is displayes as "1"
(= everythink after the first dot is cutted)

Seems to be a bug since such notebook names are allowed and correclty displayed in
1) Win10: OneNote 2016: yes
2) Win10: App.OneNote: yes
3) Win10: OneDrive in WindowsExplorer: yes
4) Office 365 (Online) Sharepoint (Teamwebsite): yes
5) iOS Apps OneNote: NO

Can you please allow "." (dot/point) "." in notebook names everywhere in every OneNote app/Website/Desktop app?

Thanks in advance s much!

Hi Microsoft,

I think it would be of use to automatically switch to 'draw' mode, for a written note, when the writing area is touched with the Apple Pencil. At the moment you have to manually click the ribbon, select draw, select colour of pencil etc. and there are multiple additional clicks required to get to the point that you would like to be at.

I don't think too many people use the pencil for navigation through menus, it's designed as an input device, and so I think the draw mode should automatically begin when the pencil is used (like how the native notes application runs)

Thanks,

DT

I am always having the problem with moving or scaling a whole sentence or at least a word without leaving some strokes from a letter apart. I think it would be better if the lasso tool could select specific handwritten text without meticulously surrounding every single letter from a word or a sentence with the lasso tool.
Or being able to group the handwritten notes beforehand with a picture would be perfect as well in order to just move the picture with the handwritten notes without surrounding the picture again with a lasso tool.
As one is limited to zoom in, it is hard to select the whole desired section of handwritten notes.
Otherwise it would be nice to have A4 template on one page but still being able to write horizontally and continuously on the same page so one has an orientation of the page size and where the A4 Format ends. This will make it easier to convert the notes into pdf to print them out or to make the page more organised.
Greetings from Germany!

Extremely frustrating.
The OneNote app on my iPad pro (3rd gen) started getting laggy after the cache started to build up. So I had to reinstall the app. Now a good portion of my notes just FAILS to resync. It says "We couldnt open this page" . I tried logging out and logging back in, no use. I contacted support, they barely have any idea. Although I am able to access these notes from my laptop (OneNote 2016 app), my ipad just fails repeatedly to sync them. And the sad part is, after I did a bit of researching, I realized this is a persisting issue with the ipad not being able to sync back even slightly large note pages after a reinstall. And none of the technical staff have come out with a solution to this despite MANY people requesting support on forums. A shame really. I have my university exams soon and almost a year's worth of work is gone. I cannot even export them as pdfs on my laptop properly cuz it horribly misaligns the pages and puts random texts here and there. Seems like theres no way out of this.