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Apple Acknowledges iCloud Notes Disappearing and Explains How to Fix
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The other issue: search in Notes 🤬 I go to look for x note, and I know I’ve referenced said note before, but it says it cannot find the note. Of course, it is when I usually need info from said note immediately.
So now I screen shot the note and tag it in the Photos app, which just bloats my Photos folder. 🤷♂️
So now I screen shot the note and tag it in the Photos app, which just bloats my Photos folder. 🤷♂️
You mean, completely unacceptable for a company like that to be valued a multi trillion dollars.
But the market can remain irrational longer than you can keep your notes.
Is this better or worse than keeping deleted nudes?
Can also get webarchive versions of Notes via Shortcuts. That too includes (some?) attachments.
(I don't use attachments and was able to export one I created with an image file attached)
But, yeah, it's a roll-your-own thing, but at least not taking geologic time to get some data.
Maybe. Seen threads where people were trying to recover Notes. ~/Library/Group Containers/groups.com.apple.notes contains the SQLite database, attachments, etc. Not sure how successful those efforts were.
And what if your notes app isn't checked off with iCloud like mine?
Earlier this month, we reported about some iPhone users temporarily losing all of their notes in the Notes app after accepting Apple's updated iCloud terms and conditions. Apple has now indirectly acknowledged this issue in a new support document that outlines steps to follow if your iCloud notes are not appearing on your iPhone, iPad, or Vision Pro.
Fortunately, the notes can be re-synced from iCloud. Apple's steps are pretty much identical to the ones we shared earlier this month:Apple updated its iCloud terms and conditions with some minor changes in September, and it has been notifying users about accepting them in recent weeks. The issue with notes disappearing has continued to affect iPhone users since our initial coverage of it earlier this month, according to social media posts.
Notes disappearing has not been the only problem. In another new support document, Apple said iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro users who receive a "Cannot Complete Action" error message when trying to accept the updated iCloud terms and conditions should update to the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, or visionOS and try again.
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That's what I want to know. I was expecting that TM would backup this stuff right?
It feels weird to me that a simple restart should fix it. I’ve had other random things disappear since iOS 18: shortcuts from my sharesheet, for example, and subsequently step count and step distance (but the activity ring was still filling up). After 4 or 5 restarts, everything seems to be working normally again. It’s like Windows used to be in the 90s: if you have any problems first try a restart and see if that doesn’t fix it.
You can Export them from the Notes app as PDFs, but it's a manual, labour intensive, one-by-one process and so they can't easily be versionized.
Apple really needs to provide a way to do this automatically with versioning support. But that doesn't sound like something they would be interested in.
Apple really needs to provide a way to do this automatically with versioning support. But that doesn't sound like something they would be interested in.
Why is Apple so bad at this? For me, there's always at least one weird issue or oddity with their cloud services. Cloud syncing Safari bookmarks, and Find My Email not allowing me to use my iCloud address, or iCloud Drive just never working properly (EVER), for example, and the error messages are no help at all.
There is usually no solution to these kind of weird issues, just the vain hope that the next update will fix it, but it never does.
There is usually no solution to these kind of weird issues, just the vain hope that the next update will fix it, but it never does.
Can do it via Shortcuts. Basic outline is:
- Find Notes
- Repeat with each Note
- Make PDF from Repeat Item
- Save PDF to
- End Repeat
I get it, not for everyone, and Apple does need to do better with Notes, but there are options.
Attachments
Notes would be frustrating, but not nearly as frustrating as ALL my contacts dissapearing mid year in 2023. Thank heavens I had other methods of backup (Including Google). Was not a fun series of tech support with Apple.
They really need to take delta (or otherwise) backups seriously, and stop having these glitches! Sync shouldn't turn off ever, even if the annoying prompt comes up "Update Apple ID settings" It should STILL autosave to your iCloud accounts (even if read only) based on last credentials. Once credentials are confirmed, it should then prompt the user to validate if sync is correct.
What the heck is the point of Auto Save, if the user has to keep confirming they are logged in, and have it turned on.
They really need to take delta (or otherwise) backups seriously, and stop having these glitches! Sync shouldn't turn off ever, even if the annoying prompt comes up "Update Apple ID settings" It should STILL autosave to your iCloud accounts (even if read only) based on last credentials. Once credentials are confirmed, it should then prompt the user to validate if sync is correct.
What the heck is the point of Auto Save, if the user has to keep confirming they are logged in, and have it turned on.
Interesting.
That is one of the most solid aspects of the service in my experience. Updates currently supported OSs well, all the way back to older (out of support) devices I still use on occasion.
Until recently, it was far more reliable than Mozilla, but now they have really upped their game.
Do you mean Messages or Notes?
Because Messages somehow got saved in the cloud before iCloud even had a function for Messages to sync.
You could delete a whole conversation and the contact and if you just enter the phone number in Messages you could scroll back to the very first message years ago on a new empty device.
Only iMessages had to be activated. I am not sure if this also worked on a Mac.
I always wondered where and how this is stored and if this is still the case. It didn't even took space from iCloud and there could be masses of photos and videos in there. You didn't even have to bee logged in to iCloud for this.
iCloud is by far the worst cloud service available. Starting with ridiculously slow sync speeds, to random bugs, and lack of most basic functionality.
If you override filename.pdf you'll end up with a single pdf...from the last exported note.
Talking of which 😂 , photos stored in iCloud Photos or Files. If I don’t use Advanced Data Protection, can anyone at Apple view these files and photos ?
Yes, your photos and files on iCloud can be viewed by someone at Apple if you don’t use Advanced Data Protection.