all of my icloud notes disappeared from my notes app after agreeing to new terms and conditions just now

I went to « settings », « general », « ipad’s storage », « Notes », « uninstall app » and then « install app ».

That was the only thing that worked for me.

I had to go through this as well. I tried the solutions above and it didn’t work. The Apple service desk had me do the same things but he added the additional step of going to the mail in settings and in my case the google account and turning on Notes there. That solved it for me.

this absolutely made me panic, I thought I've lost all my notes. I went to settings and selected OFF for syncing to iCloud, but didn't confirm, as it said notes will be deleted. However, just that every action seems to be working. I'm now waiting for my notes to be synced back to my phone again. Not good APPLE, not good. Older customers may not know how to deal with this. I'm not going to have to find an alternative back up solution, in case you do mess it up one day and I do lose my notes. I thought the whole point of iCloud was that I wouldn't have to do that!

Yes, I just closed the settings app. Looks like other people are needing to reboot their phones in addition to this

Yeah, reinstalling the Notes app did the trick for me.

I do my fanfiction writing there, so needless to say, I was FREAKING OUT!

On 11/6 I agreed to the update and then noticed all my notes disappeared! I did not want to delete the app and reinstall so I tried doing a few things but—- what worked was that I went to 

-Settings 

-Tapped the top part where name is, Apple ID, iCloud purchases

-tap iCloud 

-scrolled to Notes-then I switched the toggle from green to off/grey. Then it said if I wanted to continue all my notes would be deleted. I tapped CANCEL. 

-Then I went back to notes and they began loading one by one. 

Hope this works for someone. 

I spent almost an hour talking to Apple support and they were not able to help. What seems to have worked was following the suggestion from some in this community: I uninstalled and reinstalled the Notes app. I was able to do this and get all the notes back on my phone, but I did have everything in iCloud. I didn't create any notes just on the phone.

Yes! This worked. If your notes are gone on your phone and still present in iCloud, then delete the Notes app from your phone. Then redownload Notes from the App Store.

go to settings and iCloud and notes to make sure that syncing is turned on for notes. Mine came back. Yay!

Thanks for this suggestion!! After trying the other suggestions, except for uninstalling and reinstalling the app, I did the same. My notes started downloading pretty quickly, but it took a few hours and several refreshes to get them all back. A big whew!!!

Thanks! That fixed it!

Thank you so much!! I was in panic mode trying to find them.

Thank you so much, Rylie926! I wish there was a way to download all of my notes to keep them safe.

You need to go to..

settings

notes

ensure iCloud account is selected

and sign back in with your Apple ID.

that restored all of my 100s of notes, but it was a deeply stressful time.