Q: iOS 9 update has stopped iCloud notes being accessible on Windows
Since I updated my iPhone 6+ to iOS 9, my nearly 400 notes on iCloud that remain visible on my phone are no longer visible on my Windows 10 machine, nor on any Mac I own, nor at the university at which I teach, where the OS is the now out of date Yosemite. When I try to load them using Safari or Chrome or Firefox, an error message comes up saying the notes could not be loaded, and a link to 'Report to Apple'. Until this happened, I had trusted iCloud to look after my data, and my notes were used to save research information for later use on other platforms, but no more. Another shortcoming of Notes is that you cannot save them en masse to a Word.doc format for safekeeping. They have to be manually copied and pasted 400x (in my case).
I called Apple Support about this, and was informed that the only OS where I will now be able to view notes is El Capitan. What do others think of this decision?
Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Oct 25, 2015 4:24 AM























