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

Same here. Went to

Settings

Notes

Accounts

iCloud

—closed out and reopened notes

That restored them

Glad that the above has helped some but it didn’t work for me either.

Me too. I can view notes in iCloud online. Still trying to work out how to transfer them back to my phone. I contacted Apple Support and they had no idea how to do that which is pretty frustrating.

Same here just done the update, all notes are gone from my phone. Checked iCloud and they are all still there. Done the settings check which people suggested and also rebooted my phone but Notes were still at zero. Deleted the app, redownloaded it and the notes slowly started downloading to the phone.

Thanks, I turned it off and then right back on again, then opened the Folders app and the folders were downloading. I did not reboot first.

Looks like everything was restored.

I am furious that this happened! A lot of people are panicking over lost info.

Mine too. In settings, notes, I added my iCloud account again, even though it showed my account was there. I rebooted my iPhone and the iCloud notes downloaded into my folder.

All my notes during last year are gone. I tested everYthing listed here, I even checked with Apple support, but none of my last year notes were saved on iCloud and I lost everything that was planned, budgeted or implemented since July 2023 :( I am still freaking out and even my today’s checklist is gone. Heading to grab a calendar and going traditional moving forward. . Too expensive and not reliable anymore. I am not the owner of the data I have on my iPhone anymore!!! Apparently Notes app doesn’t work on local device!!!

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I think "Close out" meant to "traverse back out of going to the depth described". Hit the backspace to leave the "Settings" app.

Because I think that when I exited out of "Settings", and then returned to the Notes app, the folders and files started reloading.

the same thing happened to me. when i realised, i really panicked - I’m a writer with well over 200 notes in icloud - not just important details to remember such as information about my bank accounts, but also over 100 characters and notes about my writing and my books, and i thought i’d lost them all, which was absolutely horrifying. the only thing that worked for me was deleting the app and redownloading it, so if you’re reading this and the settings trick didn’t work for you, i’d suggest taking screenshots of whatever notes you have left that you need to keep, then deleting the notes app and reinstalling it.

Me too and I am really angry. This has wasted my afternoon and I haven't found a way to get them back.

The same problem happened to me. Restarting the phone didn’t help. I had to add back in the iCloud account under settings>notes>accounts (even though it was already listed there), and it took a few times, too, or at least it feels like it, but now they’re reloading, thank God.

Notes disappeared some time after update to 17.7.1 on iPhone 11 Pro.

I deleted the app then reinstalled it. Everything that was saved on iCloud downloaded back onto it after opening.