I turned on iCloud sync for notes on my iPad when I realized it wasn't on. All of my iPhone notes showed up on my iPad, but my iPad notes DISAPPEARED. They are GONE. HELP!
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iPad, iPadOS 16
Recently deleted was the first place I checked for the missing notes. No, they are simply gone. I watched in real time as the iPhone notes populated and the iPad notes disappeared.
I was trying to erase all content and settings and then it literally backed up my iPad right there without my notes. :(
I’m sobbing.
Thanks you. Your advice helped me to restore lost notes!
It’s March 1, 2025. Any fixes?
I just had the issue on my iPad mini,
I scanned documents on my IPad notes app and turned on sync, just see all the notes I created on the IPad before the sync disappeared!!! it seems this bug has not been fixed and it is annoying. Please how do I get my notes with scanned documents back??
Yes!! I contacted Apple Support and they internally do something to recover your note. It actually works. I had scanned a book that took me an hour and when I opened icloud notes on my computed it disappeared. I contacted Apple and they recovered the note, it appeared again in my phone.
It means that they recover your notes doing something in the system (I don't really know how it actually works) but they retrieve your notes. They do something and then you can get your notes again in your deleted folder.
I talked with apple support they got me doing stuff for about an hour, told me they did something on their end and to wait 24 hours, when the notes didn't appear they told me "oh why don't you restore your backup" , what a joke!
Do you know how they fixed this? I am having this same issue, but Apple Support said they couldn't do anything to help me and the notes were gone.
I have had the same issue where I made notes on my iPad with the iPencil, but when I turned on the iCloud Sync, all these notes disappeared!
Same thing happened to me and I was to advised to restore from backup, even though I had never synced them over there before. I've wiped the device and am restoring it now. This is taking a while, did they advise you to do that first? Is there a time limit on how long they can retrieve it for?
This same thing happened to me too. I have notes for school that I NEED back, and many notes that I’ve been adding to for months. I’m very disappointed, and there must be a solution. Apple please fix this. Everything important is gone. Just gone… I think there are too many complaints to do nothing about it…
Hello…I need help. This issue happened to me just now. And i have years of very important notes in my ipad that got overwritten by those from my phone. I have followed instructions to check on icloud but nothing is there except those from my iphone
someone please help if you know how to fix it. Badly need those notes back. I have a major event coming soon and lots of my work are stored there.
thank you so much
It happened to me too just this March 22 and I was able to restore about 95% of my notes.
I contacted apple support and they assisted me by screen sharing until we were able to restore them.
They will help you look for a back up in your iPad (not in the icloud) and they will help you restore that. Hopefully you do have back up in your iPad. Lucky for me cause my iPad was programmed to have a scheduled back up.
Reach out to them via: chatsupport.apple.com
They will initially do a basic troubleshooting and when they cannot go further due to technicalities, they will have someone call you.
I hope you recover yours.
Hi, just went through the same situation and in my case apple itself turned on the sync after iPad update and now when i opened notes to continue my weeks of research ive found not a single iPad note. Did you find any solution?
I encountered this same issue and fortunately was able to get (most) of my notes back because my most recent iCloud backup for the iPad was prior to when I turned on iCloud Sync for notes.
Issue:
I created new notes on my iPad while the "Sync this iPad" toggle for Notes within Apps using iCloud was off. When I switched on the toggle, all the notes created on my iPad were deleted and replaced by the notes from my iPhone/in iCloud.
APPLE NEEDS TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR THIS - or at the very least provide a warning that the newly created notes could be deleted.
Solution:
Next,
The same thing happened to me a few moments ago. Apparently we were supposed to offload the notes app on your ipad to “save” the notes on there before syncing. The moment i synced the notes in my iphone to my ipad it just went poof like wth with no warning. This is honest so ridiculous and annoying since i had so many important things in there.😭
How to retrieve missing iPad notes after iCloud Sync
