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

Perfect!! Thank you, they all can back PHEW.

I did press CANCEL when it said ‘delete from iPhone’ as I did not want to risk it and all the notes still returned without actually switching the SYNC off ….

Turn your phone off and turn it on again. Simples 🙂

"Have you tried turning it off and on again...?" isn't just a comedy line, it's often the solution.

That's what I did - turned my iPhone off and restarted it - and hundreds of Notes are now synching back from iCloud to my phone.

Toggling Notes off and on in iCloud settings would also work, but I got a warning that some edits made on my phone hadn't synched to the cloud and would be lost if I did that.

Simple is best.

I found the same issue but once I updated to the latest IOS 17.7.1 (i was already on a version of 17) version avail on my phone, my notes all came back and the icloud/notes feature was turned back on. Phew!!!

Did you finally manage to get them back in your iPhone? I have restored just the ones from iCloud before year 2021 that are not important to me. And nothing from the years 2023-2024 that I had saved only on my iPhone….

Crisis averted, thank you! To anyone not having luck with this, try it with your phone plugged in and connected to wifi.

May seem obvious to most people, but it had slipped my mind and the sync wasn’t happening for me initially.

Did you have any folders and sub folders created? If so, did your folders and sub folders return back to normal? When I followed the steps you gave, everything came back but they all came back as folders. No sub folders👎🏾

The solution of deleting the Notes app and then redownloading it worked for me when the other solutions mentioned above didn't. Luckily I could see that the notes were still there on my laptop. On the new download I could see the On my iCloud option which was previously not there. Once selected, all my notes came back.

Obvious solution really, but it should not have happened. Everyone I know with an older iPhone has been affected. Mine is an XR

i have iphone13 and when you toggle the “sync this iPhone off it asks you to choose Delete from my iPhone or cancel. It shows the command clocking while waiting for a response. It does not turn off at that point. After 5 minutes of waiting it still doesn’t toggle off. If I choose the delete option will it also delete the notes on iCloud?

I had the same situation. My heart nearly stopped when I found my Notes gone from my iPad. I read some of the other responses here, then logged into iCloud.com, and was relieved to find all my notes - but I didn’t change any settings. I then opened Notes on my iphone, and they were all there. Just doing that one thing slowly began repopulating the Notes on my iPad, oldest to newest. It took a couple minutes but they’re all back.

Hi sifumanny,

Did you try the following that others have recommended and that worked for me? I have an iPhone XR with current iOS version.

“settings>notes>default account> then changed to On My iPhone”

Definitely complain to Apple!

Hi,

I think you may be looking in the ‘Manage Account Storage’ menu which will shows the message that all notes will be deleted from iCloud…don’t do this!

Just underneath that option you’ll see ‘Apps using iCloud’. Click ‘Show All’ then go to Notes and carry on from there. It will pop up with the message that it will delete all iCloud messages from this device which is fine as it will put them back on when you reselect it.

Just be sure to read the pop up warnings carefully as some people may have different set ups to me.

Hope this helps! 👍

I was incredibly shocked and unsure what to do. Thanks to your suggestions I have my notes back. Go to: Setting>notes>default>account the choose “on my iPhone”.

Bingo!! I could see them going back into my Notes.

when i toggle off the sync this phone button it then displays two options

first to delete notes from my iPhone

or second, to cancel the sync

You indicated that it asks if you want to delete your notes from your phone My interpretation of the option is that if I select that it will proceed to delete the notes on my iPhone. Is there another step you see after you select the option. I don’t perceive that to be the way it works

It didn’t work for me. My iCloud was full, so it wouldn’t restore from there. And i tried to go turn on the on my iPhone option and zero notes popped up. Apple should have given some warning that if your notes weren’t backed up, they would be lost by signing these new terms. I’m so mad. I lost some very important medical documentation, as well as lots of other things. Super upset.

I’m right there with you!!!! All my notes from 2024 are gone. It pulled up others (i hope all, but I’m not sure). It is showing notes from 2023. And u didn’t have them stored in iCloud due to no more storage. This is BS that it just deleted from our phones. They better fix this and bring our notes back.