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How to Fix iPhone Notes Disappearing After Accepting New iCloud Terms

The author neglected to mention that ifgreen sync is on and you turn it off what to do when it then asks you “do you want to delete from my iPhone” or hit cancel.
 
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pdaholic said:
I dumped iCloud notes a while ago when my notes started duplicating when I edited them. Switched to Simplenote and I’ve been very happy. It syncs perfectly.
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This is why I dumped them too. It was long time ago, so I am not sure if this is still happening. I also used Simple Notes for a long time as well.
Nowadays, I use my own app for notes.
 
Someyoungguy said:
"While some users have turned to social media to panic about all of their notes being gone, thankfully the issue can be fixed by following the steps below."

This is a weirdly constructed sentence, and is mildly insulting. Are we to conclude that there is no justification for panic on social media when Apple has been silent on the issue? I keep all my car maintenance records in Notes and would not be happy to lose them.

Not a big deal, just struck me as odd as I read it.
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The sentence was just stating a fact. I added a "justifiably" before panic for you to avoid any alternative interpretations.
 
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I am going through the restore process now. Definitely could not afford to lose all my notes. If that happened some bit of important information would probably be lost forever and I wouldn't realize it until I needed it one day.
 
SnowPenguin said:
This is why I dumped them too. It was long time ago, so I am not sure if this is still happening. I also used Simple Notes for a long time as well.
Nowadays, I use my own app for notes.
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Is your app in the AppStore? I’d be happy to check it out!
 
Joe Rossignol said:
The sentence was just stating a fact. I added a "justifiably" before panic for you to avoid any alternative interpretations.
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“Turning to social media to justifiably panic” sounds weird, too. But I guess that’s what people do today, turn to social media for everything.
 
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klasma said:
There is on iPad, sort of. You can select all notes by swiping (in Select Notes mode), and then drag the batch as a whole to a folder in the Files app, for example in split view (multitasking). If you use multiple folders, you can still do it in one go from within the All iCloud folder (at the cost of losing your folder structure). It would be easier if Apple provided a Select All option and then a Copy (and Paste) option, and also allowed selecting folders.
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fysa… you can do this on an iPhone too.
 
klasma said:
Can you describe how? I couldn't figure out a way, since you can't have two apps side by side on it.
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Select the notes, tap and hold to drag them… then with another finger swipe up from the bottom to get to the Home Screen and open files then release the first finger.

Or select them, and while holding just ask Siri to open Files and release wherever you want them to go.

Most people don’t know you can multitask this way on an iPhone.
 
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GTDaveMac said:
Select the notes, tap and hold to drag them… then with another finger swipe up from the bottom to get to the Home Screen and open files then release the first finger.
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Ah, good point, I remember when that was introduced, but forgot about it in the meantime.
 
I am just now realizing how screwed I would be without my notes app. I use it for all kinds of references for using various tools, systems, and processes. And a ton of measurements and records. I have nearly 1500 notes in iCloud dating back to 2010, which I think is when they started storing them there.

I am unsure how to proceed with remedying this.
 
mystery hill said:
There is no way to batch export all notes on iPhone and iPad to a folder on the device, or to an external drive.

You have to completely depend on iCloud and hope that a bug doesn’t delete all your notes.
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This is the number one above all thing keeping me from using Notes for everything. I have tried too many notes systems over the years and now all my stuff is scattered everywhere and it's surprisingly hard to consolidate. Notes seems like a good default choice especially with all the improvements lately but this makes me nervous.
 
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I use Notes across an iPad mini 6, iPhone 16 Pro, M2 MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro, daily. With Pencil 2 in the mix, that mini is such a killer note-taking sketchpad. Everything from daily ToDo notes, meeting notes, grocery lists (yah radial buttons!), it's one of my most used apps - next to Calendar: an app I would curl into a fetal position without. Data loss in Notes would be awful and why I have yet clicked the New iCloud T&Cs. 😬
 
uletcha said:
The author neglected to mention that ifgreen sync is on and you turn it off what to do when it then asks you “do you want to delete from my iPhone” or hit cancel.
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I know I was extremely hesitant to try but I went ahead and turned the switch off, selected delete from iPhone, then when I switched it back on all my notes came back.
 
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I accepted the Terms, and Authenticated, yesterday.

Notes was propagated, and still performing as it was the day before.
 
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My wife's iPhone 8 was hit by this just now.

I haven't yet been asked to agree to any new iCloud terms.
 
Just happened to me this morning. What is concerning is that all the notes disappeared and were inaccessible from the device. I can understand if iCloud syncing is unavailable from time to time but I would expect the notes to be at least locally cached and still accessible.
 
tomssy said:
Just happened to me this morning. What is concerning is that all the notes disappeared and were inaccessible from the device. I can understand if iCloud syncing is unavailable from time to time but I would expect the notes to be at least locally cached and still accessible.
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This has always happened, it's very annoying. Even if it were cached, we can't access them. It makes me very scared about losing my Notes.
 
My wife just updated to iOS 18 and had this happen... Another reason not to update...
 
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