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Oct 8, 2015 11:15 PM in response to dagazby Stephanie Stiavetti,How is this still a problem three years later?!
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Nov 4, 2015 1:53 AM in response to Stephanie Stiavettiby Adriaan Renting,I'm also still having the same problem. and I'm not interested in making a new mail account just to sync notes between my iphone and my macbook(s).
Does anyone know another way to access and sync the notes that doesn't require this stupid mechanic?
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Nov 4, 2015 2:28 AM in response to Stephanie Stiavettiby ElectricPossum,I have to admit I'm a little shocked as with all the major updates to the 'Notes' app via IOS 9, I assumed this issue was a thing of the past. It's strange Apple would allow a prehistoric problematic design decision to continue to haunt IOS through repeated major updates. Creating an unnecessary email address basically just increases your spam footprint and is thereby something I'd avoid at all costs, but I can understand your frustration. They need to remove this necessity to protect the privacy of users as it's important and clearly part of Apples agenda. Hopefully they'll get around to it eventually (although after 3 years I'm not going to hold my breath)!
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Nov 10, 2015 2:15 PM in response to dagazby davpp,I had the same problem when I changed phones to an iPhone 6. I had notes on my old iPhone under my existing gmail address. On the new phone I turned on notes in the icloud settings thinking this would bring up all my old notes because I use my gmail address for icloud, however, none of my old notes were there.
What I had inadvertently done was to turn off notes in the mail, contacts, calendars settings for the gmail email account. As soon as I turned notes on in the gmail account all my notes reappeared.
What I understand is that notes in icloud get stored using an icloud email address which might be different from the (possibly gmail) email address that you might use for your icloud/apple ID.
So make sure notes are turned on in the mail settings for you gmail account and then notes should just use that address. If you want to use notes via the icloud email account then you will have to set one up if you don't have one already.
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Feb 9, 2016 11:23 PM in response to davppby Abro Mansoor,Its 2016 and having the same problem to sync your mail and Notes we have to creat @iCloude.com email why apple we dont want to have more email who will manage to just make sync your own personal emails we have to whole new email plz dont do this you ppl making phone smart but in that bounding ppl to not work smartly this is total insane please make it easy and i believe in 9.3 ios update you change it and do as what we want
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Apr 11, 2016 4:04 PM in response to Abro Mansoorby vafer,+1 This issue is over 4 years old? Create an iCloud email address? Wow. I mean, I like the Notes app that the iPad Pro has - it's pretty nice. but in terms of sync across devices, I have to create another email address? Makes no sense. Why not just leverage the unique Apple id?
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Apr 17, 2016 3:03 AM in response to dagazby Akira1138,I'm using IOS 9.2 and i turned on Notes in Icloud settings without having an icloud.com address. It works well and synchronize nicely on the web access.
On my macbookair i'm still under Yosemite. When i try to activate it, it ask for icloud.com address...
Does it mean if i upgrade to El Capitan it will work as on IOS ?
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Sep 27, 2016 2:57 PM in response to Stephen Sparkby TangoMikeWhiskey,The thread may be over two years old, but the problem still exists in September 2016.