iPhone Unable to Change Pasted Text Size in Notes iOS 13

[lelisa13p]

Title pretty well sums up the issue. Previous versions of iOS allowed for correcting Copied/Pasted text into a Note to be restored to Default size by: Highlight desired text > Cut text > Paste text back into same Note. Default sizing would be restored. Although this work-around was clunky, it was manageable. This is no longer the case. My experience is that text copied from a source gives no indication that anything is amiss until it is pasted into a Note, where it appears as tiny mouse-print. Using the above method retains the tiny size and nothing changes.

(THIS APPLIES TO NOTES SYNCED WITH GMAIL.)

Does anyone have a way around this? I use text pasted into some ongoing Notes regularly and I'm very frustrated. I've had to retype the copied text and then delete the mouse-print. Labor intensive and maddening, defeating the purpose of Copy/Paste. I'm missing iOS 12.

 

[lelisa13p]

Over 100 views and nobody has any other ideas how to deal with this process? That's depressing. Anyway, thanks for looking and please keep me in mind if anyone learns anything that might help.

 

[DomC]

Sorry if I don't understand the issue exactly, can't you select the mouse type and choose to change it to the (default) Body format?

 

[lelisa13p]

I don't get those options. My notes are not using iCloud and are displayed as the old kind. They sync with Gmail.

 

[Vigilance247]

I have the same issue. After reading your thread, I tried a work-around that worked for me. I pasted the copied text into the iCloud Notes and it appeared in the large default font. I then copied the text from iCloud Notes and back to the Google Notes. It worked! This is not the best solution but it does help.

 

[Ruggy]

It isn't normal behaviour so you could try deleting the Notes.plist file as that usually works when something is behaving oddly like this.
I suggest you do a search about .plist files yourself so you are comfortable with what you are doing, but basically, it's a set of instructions that loads with the program and when you delete it and reboot the machine, it re-compiles a new one and with luck, it should be back to behaving normally again.

 

[Vigilance247]

It isn't normal behaviour so you could try deleting the Notes.plist file as that usually works when something is behaving oddly like this.
I suggest you do a search about .plist files yourself so you are comfortable with what you are doing, but basically, it's a set of instructions that loads with the program and when you delete it and reboot the machine, it re-compiles a new one and with luck, it should be back to behaving normally again.

That would work in MacOS but we are using Notes in iOS.

 

[lelisa13p]

I have the same issue. After reading your thread, I tried a work-around that worked for me. I pasted the copied text into the iCloud Notes and it appeared in the large default font. I then copied the text from iCloud Notes and back to the Google Notes. It worked! This is not the best solution but it does help.

I appreciate your input. I don't have iCloud Notes set up. I chose to stay with the older Notes format because it's simple and serves my purposes quite well, except for this annoying text sizing problem that is persisting even thru various iOS 13 updates. I continue to putter around with the problem but haven't had any progress. I've tried pasting the copied text into other text-type apps where it will look fine but when copied again from those apps back into Notes, the mouse-print returns.
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It isn't normal behaviour so you could try deleting the Notes.plist file as that usually works when something is behaving oddly like this.
I suggest you do a search about .plist files yourself so you are comfortable with what you are doing, but basically, it's a set of instructions that loads with the program and when you delete it and reboot the machine, it re-compiles a new one and with luck, it should be back to behaving normally again.

Thanks for offering help.