Hate having to deselect the lasso every time I clock out of a text box. I create several text boxes in a row and defaulting to the lasso and having to deselect each time is a pain.

I use textbox on a daily basis and defaulting back to lasso doubles literally all my work. Please make it so we can toggle defaults on or off or maybe even set the defaults ourselves.

STOP THE LASSO DEFAULT TOOL. This is such a big annoyance when taking notes with the text box tool. Also please remove the edit text box while typing!!! Go back to the previous version of Goodnotes.

yes this is very frustrating

AGREED! I use textbox this most and defaulting back to lasso doubles my workflow. At the very least make a feature so users can toggle defaults on or off. Or set defaults of their own!

This is so infuriating, I don’t even use text boxes but it does it for the shape tool too! I’m gonna switch apps if they don’t fix it soon. Let the user pick the default tool, or if the tool even defaults at all. Also while I’m at it, in the sidebar make it so I don’t have to hit the 3 dots and a button just to select multiple pages.

It's so inconvenient to have to click the text box icon every single time I want to add a text box to my notes. I type during lectures to take notes instead of writing because it's faster, but because every time I want to add a new textbox in another section of the same page/slide, it feels inconvenient and very counterintuitive.

This is the most annoying feature i've ever had on Goodnotes. I use textbox outlines to create unerasable layouts such as a weekly layout. This allows me to erase easily without avoiding borders, and erase both highlighters and writing together. Now, layouts i've used for YEARS since goodnotes 3 is driving me insane!

The new update feels more like a downgrade for note taking. It’s quite frustrating that the tool automatically switches back to the lasso after using the text box once: Previous version would stay on the text box for easier and more efficient note taking. Additionally, having the font adjustment bar follow the text box down blocks part of the slide content you are trying to take notes on, which makes taking those notes even more difficult. Overall very bad upgrade for efficiency and ease of note taking. Please Please Please bring back the old tool bar!

i’m going to switch

YES COMPLETELY SLOWS DOWN ANY PRODUCTIVITY WHEN TYPING NOTES.

If this doesn’t get fixed I’ll switch to kilo notes

Pleaseeeeee! Many people are going back to Goodnotes 5 because of that major terrible change ! Same thing after typing ,I can’t to go back to the text box with the double tap on the pencil, it sticks to the lasso tool 😡

MAKE DEFAULT TOOL A USER CHOICE
- This new update to set the lasso tool to default has angered the online community and heavy users like myself. I rarely use the lasso tool and other tools heavily. By making the default snap back to the lasso tool this update has effectively doubled even tripled my workflow time. It’s a huge disruption and it makes me so fucking angry. Change it so the user can CHOOSE. JFC. How could you make it so bad?

How is the new update making the entire app lag slower than a 2010 computer? With lasso being the default tool I have to click the textbox again and again just to put in multiple text boxes. I want to type my notes, not lasso them around. Please fix this bug because it's causing major inconvenience to many. Everything is lagging slower than my brain and that's saying something. The text keeps hanging on its own and it's less than 1/10 of its original speed. Your update is so bad it's more a downgrade than an improvement.

I don’t remember having this issue prior to October 1, 2025. Something has changed. I don’t want it to open with Lasso tool on my iphone. Thx

Exactly the auto lasso is ridiculous it is messing up my notes and keeping me from doing soo much! It’s worse than inconvenient

The tool bar after the new update sucks it is inconvenient. The old tool bar was much better. The lasso tool should NOT be the default tool. Once I tap off the text bar it goes to lasso when I’m just trying to move the page it’s ridiculous. The new read only button is also not useful. To move things without lasso u have to go and click that each time it is inconvenient and a lot when taking notes. I miss the old tool bar. Even clicking off the pen tool it’s still on the pen and it is not helpful in the slightest before I could click of the pen tool and I’d be on read mode. We also can’t move the tool bar out of the way anymore. Most importantly is getting rid of the lasso tool as the default tool. It is messing up my work and makes moving around or navigating the documents way to difficult. At least make read only mode the default. Im glad to see im not the only one who feels like this. Please fix soon because until then I can’t easily or properly take notes like I used to.

I have had good notes for 3 years and the new update is so awful. The snapping a line feature is so messed up it was great before. The layout kills productivity with the new tabs and the laso tool being moved and it defaulting to eraser when I go back. I loved good notes and don’t know how much longer I can take the new update before I switch. I don’t want to because I love good notes before the update. I need help making it how it was before.

I second this! It is very frustrating to have to continuously re-select the text box option while following along trying to take notes in class.