Apple Notes Blank

I had it happen to me twice again this weekend. The most frustrating part is that nobody from Apple has given a reply or acknowledged the problem, after months of notes. There are a lot of people having this problem. Guess they have too much business to worry about our problem. We can fix that.

It’s June 21, 2020 and the problem of the blank notes persists. I can type a note but then when I open it, it’s completely blank! My only work around is to “forward” it to messages where I can actually read it. This seems to be a long-standing problem, Apple. How about a fix?!?!

I have the same issue as many others. It is very inconvenient to lose my notes until I restart my phone. This has been an issue about twice a week for the past two years. I am really tired of it. I need help to resolve this. Please help.

I’ve been trying to get this resolved for more than 9 months. The most infuriating part is that NO representative from Apple has even responded to say they are working on it for all of us. I’m getting to the end of my patience.

I have the same issue on my iPad and so does my wife. Those are random notes where we lose the text. We do not touch anything and it usually will come back, but not always after reboot.

Some notes are from a shared email so the note could be on both iphones and missing from one ipad.

it seems Apple has answered a first question, but nothing more.

if only one note from one account goes missing, this cannot be related to a sync problem. The rest of the account syncs.

i replaced my 7 with an 11 a week ago because of a few annoying problems, this being one of them. Getting a new phone did not fix any of the problems. The only thing that has worked is turning the phone off and on again. It seems to me it’s connected with a recent iOS update (not sure which one, but within the past 6-12 months) and is a system problem, not an old phone or outdated iOS problem. ,

On a iPhones 5 and X and on new iPads, its the same issue. I even could not read a note written minutes ago on my iPhone X.

i see the title, but the text is blank.

if Apple could acknowledge the problem, I would use something else to take down business or personal notes.

July 23,2020

I see what you are saying there, but for me, I never switch from light to dark, so for me, this isn't the causative problem.

I am having the same problem, and it is very frustrating, since I rely extensively on my notes.

I have the same problems with notes on my I-Phone 7 & X also. At times the notes are duplicated but most of the times the notes have disappeared. Seems to happen to both phones at the same time but they correct itself after I powered 1 phone off & then back on. I am beginning to think that Apple has COVID

It happens no matter what your screen setting it - rebooting the phone seems to be the only thing that works for me - the notes stored directly on the phone do not have this issue. I dont know why the two are different

You go to your main screen, swipe slowly from the bottom to halfway up the screen to “own” whatever active windows you have open. When your empty notes screen appears, swipe upward quickly to close the window. Now when you click the notes icon your notes come up in place rather than blank. Sorry if I didn’t explain this well. You can also google it for a better description. This works SO MUCH better and quicker than an entire reboot.

I’m having the same exact issue, and have had it for months. It is beyond frustrating to not be able to access any notes without getting out of the app and back into it. It would be faster to write everything down on paper! Seems like a simple fix on Apple’s part..i don’t understand the delay.

I have this same problem with the 2 phones that I have a 7 & a 10 my friends with another phone brand have no problems whatsoever. I am beginning to wonder if an Apple phone are worth the price and this may persuade me to go to another brand on my next upgrade that are coming soon.

Same here just started last update, tho. 11pro. I can use the reminder screen for notes. Fortunately I have some entry codes on notes, but I added the codes onto the address book, whew! I have backup on my MAC on itunes, so if it gets necessary, I can restore. I'm too cheap to pay for the cloud memory. I won't let the cloud on our MAC, so there. Someone here said you can forward the notes to email and see them. I might do that as a save on the ones I think I need.

I’ve had this problem on my iPhone X too. I don’t know if everyone’s problem is the same but I use notes with the phone upright. If I happen to turn the phone sideways, the contents of the note becomes invisible. I used to restart the phone to make the note visible again. Someone’s useful suggestion to force close the app works faster but the problem persists.

After force closing the app, I tried holding the phone sideways while opening the app. After that I haven’t had the problem again, even when opening the app with the phone upright. It’s been about a week so I’m hoping the problem won’t come back.