Background:

The mega-popular note-taking app Evernote was created over 10 years ago. It claims more users (200M+) than some small countries have population!

Creaking under the strain of the features added since its creation, the company decided to use 2020 technology to rebuild it "from the ground up" so that it would be more flexible in future.

And so V10 joins the family - for iOS / Mac and Windows. (No Android version yet)

It is a brand new app. Months of beta-testing with a small group of volunteers refined the app, but as soon as it launched to tens of thousands of iOS users in October 2020, many more flaws started being reported.

Evernote can fix issues more quickly now, and as they identify each bug they’re stomping them out. But there are a lot of small issues, and it will take time to get to them all. So first and only point on the survival guide is:


Don’t update your Evernote app to V10 unless you absolutely have to!!

If you have been caught out by an update though, all is not lost:

  • iOS users sadly have no options. Updates download and install automatically.
    No way to step back from that.
  • Android: go to Google Play (before the update) to disable auto-install; if you didn’t, some websites like this one have copies of older releases.
  • Mac and Windows users:
> no immediate updates on offer - V10 is being released in stages. Set options / preferences not to update until Evernote fixes more of the initial flood of issues.
> If you have updated and V10 isn’t working as you’d like, install a legacy version of Evernote to work alongside the new one and give access to all the previous features.
> OR - find another copy of the last V6 / V7 releases for Windows / Mac and reinstall the original public apps you were using up to a few days ago.

Users are finding many small irritations (and some big ones) with V10. As noted, Evernote are finding solutions and fixing as many as they can, as fast as they can; but some issues won’t be fixed for days or weeks because of the sheer volume of queries.

To work in the meantime - if you were able to use the previous app - step back to that version, or add the legacy app to your setup and use ‘classic’ Evernote where you can.

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