Notes from my iPhone disappeared post accepting new iCloud Terms and Condition.

Me too! I restarted my iPhone but they did not come back.

It happened to me! 6 Nov 2024 on iOS 17.6.1 I accepted new T&Cs. Shocked to see everything gone, empty, zero. I turned my phone off and on again. I opened iCloud in browser on my phone and confirmed my notes were all there, and weren’t fully *gone*. Then they just… started downloading… and now seemingly it’s all fine again.

Just got mine fixed with same issue. Restart your iPhone first. Then, go to iCloud, and open your Notes. All your files will be retrieved. :)

Brilliant. Thank you for the information. I had the same problem after accepting new T & C’s.

1 - Deleted the Note App (as mine were still in the iCloud).

2 - Re installed the note app.

All ‘lost’ notes reappeared in less than 2 minutes !

This is exactly my issue as well, and I’m seeing everybody else saying they got theirs back but it’s not working for me! Have you figured it out? I tried to speak with customer support multiple times the past 3 days and they have been completely useless. And I have 0 “On My iPhone” notes. There are incredibly important documents on my notes, as I’m sure is the case for everybody, and this needs to be fixed immediately. There should be no reason that they have just disappeared into thin air.

DO NOT FOLLOW THE STEPS SUGGESTED TO TOGGLE NOTES OFF AND ON IF YOUR ICLOUD IS NOT UPDATED and CURRENTLY BACKED UP!!!!! This will only allow whatever is on your iCloud to pull in and you’ll lose everything else that was local on your phone. The Apple support rep said if you don’t do this and call them, they can likely restore all your notes. Once you’ve done this, you can’t get them back. I hit cancel when the message “Will delete…” came up, but she’s still looking to see if maybe she can restore them. She can’t find anymore notes currently though….. so fingers crossed.

Also, apparently Apple doesn’t monitor this community, so if you don’t report issues to them, they never track the data of people having issues. There may be a ton more out there that the engineers could be tracking and finding out what went wrong if you call

apple and don’t just post here. Something I learned today. 🤪

What worked for me was;

1. Delete the app and download it again.
2. Go to Settings - icloud - apps using icloud - Notes
3. Turn off Sync this Iphone (delete notes) and then turn on.

Hope this helps.

Mine did not come back either. I am so ****** off at Apple

Tried this didn’t work and icloud didn’t come up as above in iphone 14 pro. Icloud was listed in accounts though

When i do this, it says that if i follow through all icloud notes will be deleted. Did this happen to anyone else?

Mine also vanished. So I navigated to iCloud settings on my phone. Checked that Notes are turned on for syncing. Toggled the switch to turn it off. It asks if you want to delete Notes from iCloud, and I just chose no. That seemed to somehow push the syncing and my notes are back. 🤷🏻‍♀️

happened to me too and i was like what BUT don’t do anything drastic- just give it 10 mins or longer!! mine all slowly came back onto my notes app. just don’t panic and let them come back :) mine are all back now as normal.

I received the same notification on my iPhone this morning, agreed to terms and all of my notes vanished, although later 16 returned, but none of those were really relevant. Then I went to iCloud in settings and it said to back up which I did, and all of my notes returned. One thing I did after my notes vanished from my phone is take a screen shot of all of them from my iPad. Then around 4 PM I got that same notification from iCloud on my iPad, so again I agreed to their terms, and my notes again vanished. I fooled around a bit on my iPad and finally saw the back up iCloud and so I did that and all of my notes are back. This is probably a very simple process for most younger people, but I am not young…..and when my notes vanished my heart sank as most of my passwords are there!

However all is well now, and I’m happy that I figured out how to get back my notes on my own! 🤗

Same just happened to me today Nov.6.2024. I accepted the new ICloud terms and all my notes vanished. I tried most of the suggestions highlighted on this forum but didn’t work for me. I really rely on my notes and don’t know what to do.

Extremely disappointed and frustrated