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.
Hey so what your going to do is your going to have to rest the device and choose from one of the previous backups when re setting up the device I just had 5 versions of back up praise God thought I lost everything years of work
Um, SERIOUSLY? I just lost all my school notes from the last 3 weeks. This is not just inconvenient, it is really an emergency. I thought by syncing my notes to the cloud I would be backing them up (I was trying to do a good thing..), not just replacing them with notes from my other devices. I cannot believe this. WOW.
This just happened to me. Lost all my iPad notes I have ever taken, including notes I need to study for an upcoming test. Unbelievable, this issue is over two years old and apple can’t resolve a problem that has already been solved countless times across other platforms. Only solution that seems to have some merit is factory resetting your iPad and using an iCloud backup, but that involves relying on iCloud to restore deleted data, which this bug shows is not a good idea. Another reason to switch to android smh.
Yes! contact Apple Support and they will retrieve them.
Contact Apple Support. I had the same issue and they actually retrieved the notes. They appeared again on my phone.
I have the same thing and done 4 calls with support and no luck. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME!
Do you know what they did - because I am having the same problem.
Try receiving notifications for your iPad when you don't have an iPad!
Hi. I am struggling with the same thing. What does it mean "Internally do something to recover your note"
Did you find a solution for this issue? I am having the same problem :(
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. Months of work GONE. PLEASE HELP!
Just had this issue head of it had me erase my iPad then head of IT told me “oops” it was stored on local memory and it’s lost forever now because you erased it
What happens when you get told to erase the iPad and start over. Because it’s gone fr now
This is absolutely ridiculous that the notes don't merge. And there is absolutely no warning. What an egregious and costly fail.
This is exactly what happened to me!!!
How to retrieve missing iPad notes after iCloud Sync
