Notes not syncing or uploading to iCloud After iOS 13 Update

Guys - Read thru these posts. This is a 100% confirmed Apple issue. There is no fix you can undertake. Anything you do might help ... for only a short bit. Apple has acknowledged the problem. There is a lot of news on this (check out Twitter). Don't waste time trying to fix this. Apple will (we all hope) release an update soon with a fix for all this.

Of all the OS updates in the past 35 years this has been the ugliest. I'm appalled at how badly Apple has broken my workflow with this. Shame on you guys. Set realistic development goals. I'm sure Dev+SQA were pulling doubles to get this out the door and once again, marketing says go before it's ready. FAIL.

My frustration continues Apple support trying to tell me I have done something wrong..... My response:

"I removed Notes from all my devices. Signout of all my devices. Random notes and unnested random folders remained in iCloud. I tried to delete each folder and note in iCloud directly but they just kept coming back. The problem is not on mysids nor anything I have done. I have isolated the problem to Apple's iCloud system which is confirmed by the overwhelming number of other users experiencing the exact same problem. You need to check Apple's own Community Support page and the countless number of twitter posts from equally frustrated users experiencing the EXACT same problem. I have waisted a week of my time and productivity over this. What happen to IT JUST WORKS!. It has become an experience more like APPLE! THE NEW MICROSOFT !!!!!!!!! Tell APPLE to fix this."

Be sure to read all posts here. This is 100% an Apple problem. There is nothing you can do to fix it. Apple is aware ... and now we jp they get it out in the next update. All these other solutions will ultimately cause more problems ... or waste a ton of your time. Wait for the update. Lots of press on this online in Twitter, etc. Hang tight. (I spoke with Apple on this and told them I was not wasting my time with recreating notes and all this other stuff people have been trying, they escalated me up the chain and I ultimately learned it is a known Apple flaw on their side).

The test account didn't work for me, too. It even deleted some scanned documents. Luckily they were still in the deleted items folder. I have problems with scanned documents in subfolders. The whole notes issue really needs to be fixed.

Happy for you.

After this, all notes from iCloud synced back to all your devices, and no push problems anymore?

Just wonder, how long ago did it all start working again for you? I would be very interested to know if (and so, when) your problems return.

My problem is different: no push from iOS to iCloud. Not sure if trashing OS cache would help me.

@harabou, this does not solve the erased notes issue. Not only does Notes not sync properly, but some Notes were erased during the iOS13/iPadOS13/Catalina upgrade. These deleted notes won't miraculously return with the test account trick. They will never return, also not with the hopefully soon launched Apple solution. As I've mentioned before, I erased all Notes from all my devices, then restored to my Mac from my Time Machine backup. That restored the deleted notes and also fixed the syncing issue.

It's difficult to know which notes have been erased. But I noticed Notes folders with 0 notes, and that's not logical. From my 300 notes about 10 were erased by the upgrade. I checked the counter before and after the Time Machine restore.

I think there is a problem with the upgrade procedure during the installation of the new OS's. This 'problem' results in lost notes and not properly syncing from 'defective' notes-after-the-upgrade. Restoring notes after the upgrades seem to solve the problem. There seem to be several solutions available now.

Bad news people... if you expect today's 13.2. update to repair broken sync, bad luck! just updated my iPhone to 13.2. and it is still NOT syncing Notes to other devices :(.

Apple is ignoring this issue... quite shocking I must say. I understand some bugs may find way into the updates, but not fixing such an important feature for people's workflow (if they use it) is unbelievable.

I noticed yesterday that my Notes from Catalina are properly syncing across all devices. All issues resolved.

I am no longer seeing the CloudKit errors in the Console app I was previously seeing (I posted about that earlier).

I agree, even though I've now migrated all of my Apple Notes to MS OneNote (I just had to do this by hand, one at a time) I periodically check with Apple notes, to see if there's any change. No change for me. No syncing. Too bad. I liked this program, but am very VERY happy now with MS OneNote through my Office 365 subscription

After signing in and signing out of iCloud, losing notes in the process, and absolutely no resolution from Apple, I switched to MicroSoft One Note.

Shame on Apple for messing up this important and very useful app!!!

I use Duet instead of Sidecar because this app does not work either with my Mac.

The updates did NOT work for me either. Looks like this is going to be a long term problem and like the others I may need to find an alternative because I lost confidence in their ability to protect my data. :(

I'm seeing a lot of improvements today (like sync working within 5-10 seconds across both platforms, where it didn't do sh*t in the past three days), though I haven't updated my iOS (still 13.1.3) or macOS devices (still 10.15.0).

This makes me think the problem is not specifically with either platform, but with iCloud itself. Looks to me like Apple is working on it behind the scenes.

I'm sure this isn't a 100% fix for everyone, but it sure looks like progress is being made to me. Hang in there.

No didn’t fix anything. Still not working even with the Catalina 10.15.1 update. I think it’s specifically something in Apple notes talking to the cloud as other apps like Noteability have no problem syncing with iCloud. Still baffling how Apple has no clue that the problem exists or how to fix it.