Apple Notes Blank

I also experience this, and it’s a massive pain as it happens several times a day as I’m constantly using notes on iPad Pro on iOS13.7. The problem has persisted through several updates of iOS and I find the best way to resolve it is to quit notes, reopen then go onto another account, then back to the account in which your notes are stored. Then they will display again.

The radio silence from Apple on this issue apart from “restart the device” is less than impressive. My main use of my iPad has been almost unusable for nearly six months now. These things are what undermines users’ faith in Apple.

Now it’s November and I have had this problem for months. So very annoying. Could someone write in simple terms bow to quit notes please for me to try that. I have tried switching on and off, swiped up and I get control centre and if I press on notes there it thinks I want to type a new note and I don’t I just want to see a particular note I have stored, some old notes are there and some aren’t. Thanks

I update my phone regularly and this issue happens to me all the time for years. Started with iPhone 7plus and just spent over $1k on iPhone 12 Max Pro with the exact same issue. C’mon Apple you’re well aware of this one. I use notes (or try to) daily.

Content of notes just disappeared while using the same this morning on iPhone X. As suggested above tried after the rebooting of device but no luck. Notes name is the same but no content are seen. Tried logging on iCloud from my Windows computer as well. I can see the note there with the same name and when tried opening with the known password it did not work as a password incorrect pop-up, in spite of the correct password. It's quite annoying for having loss of all collective data of years for fault of mine. Can someone help in this to restore back the data.

A year and a month later and it’s still happening. Killing the app doesn’t help me. I need to restart my phone or look on my laptop, which isn’t useful when I’m standing in the middle of a store trying to look at my list. Yes, first world problems. It would just be cool if someone at Apple would take notice and fix the problem on phones we chose to spend a thousand dollars on. Lesson learned.

APPLE please tell us how to correct this, it is so annoying when you need to read a note quickly. Does anyone from Apple support ever read on here or is it just users trying to solve problems instead of tech support?

I have a "fix" for this, actually more of a workaround, which allows you to access the note but not to edit it within Notes. When you pull up the blank note, hit the share icon (center bottom on my iPhone X) and text (or email) it to yourself. Somehow, the content is not actually gone, just invisible, because it will appear for sharing. This is useful, for example, with a shopping list you've made but find had gone missing when you get to the store. Text it to yourself from the seemingly blank note and your content will reappear. You can edit the content before hitting send, if desired. This has saved me many times.

I also notice that the content eventually seems to reappear within Notes without rebooting, seemingly at random.

Hope this helps!

Well just brilliant!! I just tried this and it worked! It’ll come in very handy this week when I’m standing in the middle of the grocery store having no clue why I’m there because my ‘lock down’ brain now relies on lists to function.

Thank you!!

Yup - exactly same problem for me. I have iPhone X and it’s been an issue for years. Only fix is restarting the iPhone which is annoying and can be really inconvenient if you need your notes quickly whilst on the phone or something. Surprised Apple haven’t resolved this issue yet......

This is pretty frustrating. I joined this chat many months ago. Since then I see that a lot of people have the same frustration with the Notes disappearing. But, the only comments that I see are from other users who are as annoyed as me.

Does anyone from Apple read these comments, and when will this problem be fixed????

Let’s hear from Apple, please! This issue MUST have a better answer than “shut down your phone and wait forever while it reboots - while you can’t take notes!”

This issue should’ve been dealt with a long time ago.

This is crazy. Just after I posted my reply in this topic, I started doing some other things that did not involve my phone. After about 5 minutes I realized that although I had my earbuds “implanted” in my ears but I wasn’t listening to music, podcast, audiobook. Nothing. I opened the TuneIn app and reflexively opened the Notes app. Voilà! All my notes appeared!

Maybe it has something to do with syncing and iCloud??

Same problem with notes. Have had it for several years on both 6 and 8. Updated IOS. Problem getting more frequent. Always occurs as I am doing some sort of edit or addition to an existing note. Problem always solved with a restart but this is ridiculous. The weird thing is that I can type onto the now-blank note and see nothing. After the restart the newly-typed characters are visible. There is simply no excuse for this glitch.

I must be quite impatient or maybe just narky but it seems to annoy me slightly, which builds with each new reply I read, when people say “me too”, then go on to repeat the exact same symptoms over and over as if they haven’t read the previous replies or even the original question. Would be more helpful if someone could just offer a solution or advice but not repeated same advice, which is another bug bear. I won’t mention those looking for Apple to be amongst the Community and reading these pages of repeats.

if anyone is wondering why I’m so grumpy, well it’s because I googled this bug hoping to find a solution and it’s now 02:17 am as it’s taken me this long to go through everyone’s replies, hoping fir a solution, only to find I’ve practically just read the same reply over and over again and haven’t got any further forward!!! Does this frustrate anyone else. It would be like contacting IT for a solution and them asking you 500 times “Have you switched your computer on?” 🤣😂🤣😂 Sorry folks but please..... tearing my hair out here!!!

@angebabes, your frustration is understandable, but I can tell you as someone who is subscribed to this thread and who receives emails each time someone replies, there have been no solutions to this issue. Users have described variations on the theme of quitting notes and restarting, but none of us can fix this and Apple apparently don’t want to say a thing about it, which is annoying a lot of people. In fact I’m wrong - there was that one guy who added that you could access the content of the note by hitting the “share” button then “mail”, but that’s only slightly faster than double tapping the home button and quitting notes via the quick launcher then restarting the app, which is what I normally do.

Really it’s only Apple who can get to the bottom of this and fix it in a software update. Until then, this thread likely will just be users moaning about how annoying it is.