My notes are not syncing between Mac and iphone - I have tried every suggestion

I have tried all the suggestions. Rebooted both devices many times. Finally, trying the SAME thing, my notes are miraculously working. There is absolutely nothing I can attribute a solution to. It's a glitch with icloud. I am having similar problems trying to text non-iphone users from my MAC. I was "forced" to update operating systems and I have been having problems ever since. Wasted so much time on these issues. Thanks

Ok, after trying many things, I guess found a solution.

First, the problem was very similar to the initial case, endless spinning synchronization icon and unreliable note numbers on various devices (Mac, iPad and iPhone).

The main reason was I guess, I had imported approximately 3.000 notes from Evernote as an ENEX file. The notes were successfully imported to Apple Notes on my MacBook Pro, successfully synchronised with iCloud and iPhone. But I had an endless sync icon on my iPad even after days..

What I did, I found the Exporter app from App Store which targets to export Apple notes of local folders as ".md" files with separate attachement folders. This app exported my whole library where ~10s of notes were "failed to export". After Exporter finished operation, it generates a log page where you can see the export failed note titles.

I found all these failed exports (many of them were notes with embedded TIFFs) and removed from Apple Notes, the iPad finished synchronization and all total number of notes on various devices were same.

Hope this small trick works for you.

THIS ALSO WORKED FOR ME!

I've been trying for AGES! My notes were syncing between my iPad and my iPhone 11, but at some point they stopped syncing with my Macbook.

Going into Notes > Notes > Accounts > Add Account > iCloud worked!

For me some are synced and some are not. This has just begun to be a problem recently. The MacBook Pro is on Sonoma 14.0. The iPhone (12 Pro Max) is on 16.6.1.

I depend on these remaining in sync, which they always have until recently.

WARNING: Do not attempt these steps unless you're willing to lose all the changes that haven't been synced! I signed out and signed back in via Notes>Accounts>icloud and sign in, as described by mwmom. It may have worked in terms of getting future changes synced, BUT it did not capture all the changes that had been made on my Macbook Pro for the last couple of weeks (since it stopped syncing)!! This is so bad, I'd made so many notes, and now they're gone.

I had this issue between my Macs

I had to use icloud to move my notes between macs

after logging into icloud and enabling syncing of notes they still weren't syncing between my macs

I realized that you need to manually move the notes on your laptop into icloud

to force the notes to upload quickly to icloud I had to do the following:

keep in mind though this gets rid of all the folder structure you had created in the notes on your laptop -_-

• create a new folder on the icloud section of the notes app - folder name used: Imported Notes
• select all notes that were on my mac - go to all notes on mac
• right click to move the notes on my mac to the newly created icloud folder: icloud > Imported Notes
• to keep your folder structure move each individual folder to the icloud section

all the notes on my mac that were created prior to logging into icloud were immediately uploaded to icloud and I was able to see them across my macs

I hope this helps someone out there that also didn't know this

sending you all resilience vibes as you get through these mac issues >.<

I just figured out that a note will not sync to iCloud if it begins with a number (i.e. if the title of the note begins with a number). Seems like it must begin with a letter. Strange.

To sync NOTES between the MacBook and iPhone, turn NOTES off and turn back on. NOTES will be synced.

I did this on all of my devices and lost all of my iPhone Notes. They have not yet re-synced, though my MacBooks have re-synced, but without the newer Notes that were on my iPhone.

Try creating new folder and add new notes, for me, it suddenly worked

for me not work still

The people who are posting here had this option turned on for Notes. In the past, Notes were syncing. Something has changed and the syncing is not working.

Had similar issue and noticed that the problem was my icloud. If the icloud storage is full it won't sync. It worked as soon as I made some storage available.

Followed all the instructions above but to no effect. What I ended up doing was closing the Notes app on the Mac and then reopening it. Then it synced up with the iCloud where the changes and updates made via the iPhone were available.

It would be nice to have an icon which does a refresh to the iCloud. Just my two cents.

none of the avobe methods works, I have a iOS16 device with synced notes, a Monterey and a Movaje device with notes synced OK but the notes in Ventura's device arent working anymore, no matter what I trie, when I enter in iCLoud details notes, it says an error occurred try later, fro days...

This is de Apple's "magic" and this is why I dont use any iCloud/Music/iPhotos/iCloudDrive service beyond Notes and Mail no transparency at all, no way to fix nothing but restart and pray