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

Sadly none of these options have worked for me . I will just have to hope that in time they will reappear . So much info in my notes because I didn’t envisage this ever happening . Bad update Apple .. disappointed .

The same happened to me. I tried the following but ran into trouble, anyone run into similar and figured it out?

1 turned phone on and off

2 Can't toggle the apps using iCloud to "Sync this phone" as its the only option (no iCloud option)

3 could not delete the notes app and reinstall because it says "it will delete everything" and I don't want to take a chance.

Help! I have almost 350 notes and I put way too much faith in the iCloud system.

Yes same problem here “October 25!” I’ve lost every note update from October 25th to today. These notes were only supposed to be “On My iPhone” … I have not been able to get anything past that date … ughhh! Nightmare waste of time! Is it irony that iCloud did this… 😠

I had originally posted about my notes disappearing after update, a rep tried all avenues w/ me over the phone, eventually had me restore my phone to a backup. That worked. But then, about a week later, my iPhone was wanting me to enter password for an email address, it wouldn't let me not' do it/skip it. Screen kept flashing to different things and taking me to enter my password. After I did enter the email password on google that iPhone was making me do, then, once again, my notes were all removed/messed up. There is something' ( I'm not sure what) related to how email addresss are tied' to notes. However, I don't really understand the connection or why' notes are linked to some email address. I'm guessing I'll have to restore my phone again, however, the issue is that I might not have the option to restore it to a date from before the new update, which will my notes gone forever. Horrible update in my opinion. I say this because I rely heavily on notes I have.

I updated my phone last night. I lost notes for October, November, and December. I tried all steps suggested. My iCloud was on for notes and stays on, but for some reason I cannot retrieve the notes. This happened with my iPhone 7 I lost almost all of my notes back then and I thought they would make sure this would not happen again in 2024. There is no way a phone update should wipe out all your notes from your phone.

I totally agree, this shouldn’t have happened! Why they tied my notes to my email accounts is beyond me! I was able to re-sync my notes from the cloud based on the support group instructions! A lot of folks did not get their notes back!!! Unacceptable because of terms and software updates!

the1usingthisiphone wrote:

did Your notes reappear yet? This just happened to me, I’ve tried everything but calling them, which I feel may be a waste of time. I lost everything in those notes.

Do you see the notes when viewing them in iCloud?

View notes and locked notes on iCloud.com - Apple Support

If so, the can be resynced to your phone using the steps from the posts here.

Thank you for this post!!!! It worked… I was panicked

Yay notes are back!

IPHONE 11 PRO MAX

Go to settings -> Go to notes -> Click sync this phone -> Should update after that!

Hope this helps somone!

Why oh why does Apple do this?? Every time they do updates it causes problems for the whole community of apple owners!!!

Thank you so much. This worked for me!

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

This just fixed it for me. Really appreciate your note!

Thank you so much!! That did the trick.

The exact thing has happened to me. Agreed to the terms last night. This morning I’ve gone into notes to find important information I keep for work and it’s all gone, apart from notes I made in 2016? I have course work notes in there and tax return notes all all kinds of log in details etc.

That’s what I did as it’s only the iCloud notes that it says will be deleted (which are already missing!)

The notes should still be stored in your iCloud so when you switch it back on the Notes App sorts itself out and downloads the missing notes again.

This worked for me and my partner so I hope it works for you 👍