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

I checked on iCloud and my notes are not on there. I can only see my notes from 2 years ago. The turning iCloud sync on and off for notes did not work. Can anyone give me advice please give me advice on what to try next? I really appreciate the previous help on this chat.

Hi,

have tried all the tricks, nothing has worked. I recently deleted my college email off my phone, figuring that might be why my notes are gone which doesn’t really make sense but called them to have them reactivate my account to log back in and see if my notes come back.

My notes are gone, have tried all the fixes nothing has worked. Recently deleted my college email off my phone so had to call them to reactivate it to see if that’s where my notes went which doesn’t make sense to me but figured I’d give it a shot.

When my phone got behind on updates my notes completely disappeared from my phone. I thought I needed wifi to update so I ignored that and continued using the app on a new slate. However, every time I’d exit on the note I was in it would automatically delete and I couldn’t recover it. Today I decided to update my phone because on top of that being annoying I had important notes that I didn’t have access to. The great thing is it worked and I got all 300 notes back, the bad thing is all my notes from 2025 have completely disappeared. My iCloud was synced the entire time, deleting the app still only brings back my 2024 notes, and I once again had important things I typed the beginning of this year. Does anyone know if there’s a fix? I prewrote a letter to my mother that I don’t remember at all, it’s my own fault for not thinking there would be another mishap.

just today when the iOS was downloaded and updated all my noted disappeared. My notes from iCloud were retained, but the notes I had using my iPhone 14 pro max all got disappeared. I know I always turn on my iCloud but I didn’t what happened.

This is incredibly frustrating. I’ve lost over 300 important notes. I reached out to Apple support, but they couldn’t do anything and told me there’s no way to recover them. It’s heartbreaking to lose all the songs and poems I’ve written in my free time over the past few years. They were just gone suddenly, without any explanation. I’m feeling really upset about this.

hi, my notes that were stored on icloud are back but the ones that were stored only on my iphone are not back even after i tried this... did they immediately show up for you or you had to wait a while?

I have the same issue, except one thing, my files were saved on my phone not iCloud. My notes disappeared as well. I lost over 100 notes (user names, passwords, medical information, good products, good bible readings, needed items, etc.

I hope I can get them back.

Yep, me too! Extremely frustrating. I contacted Apple Support and they had no idea how to transfer them back to my phone. If Apple themselves don’t know how to do it, how are we supposed to know. Hoping we find an answer soon.

All of my IOS Notes just disappeared after getting a notification from settings saying to accept the new iCloud terms and conditions if i wanted to keep using iCloud on my phone. I did so and they are gone. Any idea on how to restore them?

I had the same issue and managed to get my notes back. I fixed this by going to settings>notes>default account> then changed to On My iPhone. This redownloaded my notes and kept both iCloud and On My iPhone notes

CompactSwing you’re actually a lifesaver. went to my notes app to put down a draft for a bug report on discord and found out all of my notes were gone; figured it was because of the icloud agreement. i had several medication logs, years of writing, notes for video game builds, and dream logs — all stuff i don’t want to lose. thank you. i seriously thought i lost all of it.

Big FAIL by Apple. They failed by letting this happen in the first place ( ie. notes ‘vanishing’) and they failed when they did not send out a notice on how to fix the situation. Lucky we had community to rely on

Hi all,

This happened to me today and I rely so heavily on my notes.

So good to see others with the same issue as I don’t feel totally alone and hugely frustrated!

I did as you suggested but the only notes that have came back are all my historic ones!

I have no notes reappearing since Feb 2021!!

Help! I really need my notes back.

Any ideas?