Sticky Notes Icon on taskbar is not combined

Whoever thought this update was a good idea, and whoever approved it, should be fired and then whipped for good measure. I cannot even fathom what kind of thought process that managed to roll on and decide this was a good idea. Sticky Notes just went from helpful and useful to messy and useless. If you have 20+ notes, good luck keeping track of which was which for you to click in the taskbar now... plus you'll have to click twenty times to bring them up when previously you just had to click once.

Typical Microsoft to make an update absolutely NO ONE would ever ask for, and push it through just because. Seriously, revert that change because it's an even bigger ****-up than what EA managed with Mass Effect 3 ending.

Same!!.. This is so annoying. Please turn it off!!!!

I have found a solution to our problem.  I searched for hours on the internet but every application didn't do what the old sticky notes did until I found https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/

This free program is exactly what works.  I even donate $5.00 to this guy because I was so happy with his program.  And all his program is, is the old sticky notes.  I am so happy.

As before this latest update to 1903 sticky notes were under one taskbar tab and as others have mentioned here, if you have several sticky notes, then the taskbar is non usable for visual options to see what else is open asthe room is take up with SN.

Please revert this back to how it was before 1903, otherwise it is pointless to have several sticky notes.

I tell my students to use SN to remind them of how to do certain functions on the PC (They are all beginners) and having the taskbar full is not helpful!

This is exactly my problem. I came to the same conclusion as you about the cause. Unless lots of people complain, MS won't bother fixing it.