Transfer iPhone "on my phone" notes to icloud

[DSpiridonov]

Hey guys,

I am having an issue with my iphone and i have no idea how to transfer my old notes to icloud, even after looking at many other topics. Basically i use the notes app on my iphone and never really used icloud to sync my notes, so they were always stored on my phone. Since i upgraded my Mac to Mountain lion, i received the Mac notes app which can sync your notes through icloud, so i decided to turn my icloud on my phone to sync notes as well. However, the issue is that none of the old notes were synced to icloud, but only the newest created notes are synced onto icloud. Whenever i open the notes app i have two accounts, one saying "on my phone" the other saying "icloud" < which i received once i enabled notes syncing to icloud. Any idea how i can transfer all the notes from "on my phone" to "icloud"?

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Many thanks,
Dean.

[Z400Racer37]

bump for this question, im having the same problem, and im sure others are as wel.... anyone know how to do it?

[kalakov]

having the same problem. someone suggesting doing it manually. but I have a lot of notes

[krravi]

Originally Posted by kalakov

having the same problem. someone suggesting doing it manually. but I have a lot of notes

Just wondering if you connect your iOS device to iTunes physically and under "info" sync "notes" to the local machine first. That way your machine and your iOS device notes are the same.

Then, sync your machine and the iCloud. That way will all the notes end up in the iCloud?

Just wondering. Have to try that tonight, because I am in the same situation.

[HadItWithWindow]

Let me get this straight. I believed all my notes went to the cloud but that was a mistake.

When I look at notes on my iPhone5 (which are gone because they didn't float up) i now see iCloud Account for Notes. I don't recall seeing that on my old iPhone4.

If I put notes today into the Cloud account does this mean they are finally secure and I won't lose everything once again?

[krravi]

Originally Posted by HadItWithWindow

Let me get this straight. I believed all my notes went to the cloud but that was a mistake.

When I look at notes on my iPhone5 (which are gone because they didn't float up) i now see iCloud Account for Notes. I don't recall seeing that on my old iPhone4.

If I put notes today into the Cloud account does this mean they are finally secure and I won't lose everything once again?

Cloud is not about being secure, but rather having everything in a central location from where it propagates to all the devices its hooked to.

If you delete a note in your device then it will be deleted in the cloud as well.

[HadItWithWindow]

Poor choice of words on my part. I didn't mean secure I meant stored.

Right now my iCloud history shows the following:

Phone backup 9/11/2012 507.5 MB
Phone backup 9/26/2012 54.8 MB (New iPhone5)

iPad backup 9/20/2012 126.9 MB
iPad backup 9/21/2012 58.4 MB (New iPad)

Am I correct in assuming the iPhone backup from the iCloud dated 9/11/2012 can be restored to my iPhone5 and I will have all my notes, contacts, music, etc that were in the older iPhone?

[Weaselboy]

Originally Posted by HadItWithWindow

Poor choice of words on my part. I didn't mean secure I meant stored.

Right now my iCloud history shows the following:

Phone backup 9/11/2012 507.5 MB
Phone backup 9/26/2012 54.8 MB (New iPhone5)

iPad backup 9/20/2012 126.9 MB
iPad backup 9/21/2012 58.4 MB (New iPad)

Am I correct in assuming the iPhone backup from the iCloud dated 9/11/2012 can be restored to my iPhone5 and I will have all my notes, contacts, music, etc that were in the older iPhone?

Yes... once you replace say an iPhone 4 with an iPhone 5 and the 5 has been backed up to iCloud, you can go in there and delete the iPhone 4 backup to free up space.

[Otterblue]

Originally Posted by krravi

Just wondering if you connect your iOS device to iTunes physically and under "info" sync "notes" to the local machine first. That way your machine and your iOS device notes are the same.

Then, sync your machine and the iCloud. That way will all the notes end up in the iCloud?

Just wondering. Have to try that tonight, because I am in the same situation.

From Apple's website: "You can sync with the Notes app using IMAP or iCloud. Syncing Notes using iTunes is no longer supported on OS X v10.8 and later."



I guess I'll have to hand copy each note...

[krravi]

Originally Posted by Otterblue

From Apple's website: "You can sync with the Notes app using IMAP or iCloud. Syncing Notes using iTunes is no longer supported on OS X v10.8 and later."



I guess I'll have to hand copy each note...

Sorry I forgot to update. Yes I figured that out the hard way and I finally did copy and paste one by one...

[cimonc]

I am having the same problem

[Babka1]

I just spent 25 minutes with Apple tech support. Boy was the guy friendly. But useless. I was finding answers more quickly online than he was by putting me on hold and asking somebody on staff.

Bottom line is this:
If you created a Note on your iDevice before you activated iCloud or before you synced Notes with iCloud, there is no way to automatically sync them. They are stuck on your iDevice.

I'd put the whole NOTES FIASCO up there with MAPS FIASCO, except it's way lower profile and doesn't get press. This is a bug. Apple has no answer. Let's hope they are going to provide a PATCH for this bug.

The ONLY WAY to get those older notes to sync are to manually COPY the content of each and every one, then create a NEW NOTE, then PASTE the content into the new note, then delete the old one if you like. But I wouldn't delete the old ones till you're sure the new copied-pasted ones are synced.

IMAP isn't a solution. And it's pretty obvious that Apple is taking a first subtle step at trying to lock down the whole thing and get everyone into an iCloud subscription. Hey, why not cancel your Dropbox account? They wouldn't let Apple buy them out.

For Windows users, there's an app called CopyTrans that works around a bunch of iTunes dependent syncing, but really nothing for Mac users.

Bad Apple.

Hopefully there's an empty chair with some former Apple development manager-who-dropped-the-ball waiting for a solutions provider to enter and give their customers what they need. There have to be millions of frustrated Notes users.

[bloutrein]

True - you can't sync "On my iPhone" notes to the iCloud. Most you could do is use third party apps to transfer the notes to your computer.

[fredrikmotin]

There is a way to sync automatically, but you need to temporarily have access to a 10.7 system... See this: http://apple.stackexchange.com/quest...ud/88299#88299

[kimmysky]

Originally Posted by cimonc

I am having the same problem

i dont meet this b4. But if you cannot do it, i know there are some apps can transfer notes to pc, it may help.

[Landluo]

I tried iPhoneTrans and it did a good job. But know that you can only copy 100 items and then you have to buy it. It is only $19.99 so it isn't super expensive but you can't seem to be able to download your notes from the iPhone to the computer with it, that takes iPhoneTrans and that is an extra $25. FYI.