Devices/apps do not appear to be syncing through iCloud consistently

A final note on this.

I've just spend the last 45 minutes reading articles from Forbes, Reddit, AppleInsider and others dating back to 2018 about iCloud problems and major bugs. In summary, iCloud has always been and still is a mess.

There are documented cases of random outages, long delays and inability to sync, sync and access issues that coincide with new iOS releases as well as countless instances of data loss. Even iOS16.3 caused access and synch issues with iCloud.

The consensus view from 3rd party developers and users in general is that no matter how much everyone complains, Apple doesn't seem to know how to bring reliability to iCloud (because if it did, it would have by now).

I noticed last week, when people from Germany, Australia and Japan were all Tweeting about iCloud being down, the Apple service status board was 100% green lights (including all services with iCloud in their name). Yet users around the world, myself included, couldn't sign in to iCloud for an hour. Must hurt to turn on the red lights and tell the world that after only a few weeks, iCloud is down yet again.

What a nightmare!

Thanks muguy.

I've had to give up on Apple Notes because the app's too unreliable. After countless hours of troubleshooting and testing, I've concluded this app (or maybe even iCloud) lacks the integrity one would expect from a basic note taking app.

It works 95% of the time, but every couple of days something falls over. You delete the word "Bread" from Apple Notes on your iPhone and an hour later sit down at you Mac, open Notes and the letter "d" from the word bread remains. You can force close the app and restart devices but the sync just never completes. Yet 30 minutes later, you test something else and it works fine. It's very hit and miss. Nothing to do with internet connectivity either, I'm on super fast internet.

Even if you Google search "Apple Notes" the first suggestion that comes up is "Apple notes not syncing". Would seem I'm not the only one having issues!

I've been using Google Keep for years without a single issue and having now parallel run Keep and Apple Notes, Keep is the clear winner for synching (virtually real time across devices) and importantly for data integrity. I do try to embrace Apple's apps but they are simply inferior (like Apple Home, for example).

I will continue to use Apple hardware going forward (I'm a big fan) but I'm definitely sticking with Google when it comes to apps and data-driven products (like maps).

Negative.

I have a very simple and clean set up. Apple hardware products purchased directly from Apple running Apple apps downloaded or updated from the App Store. I only have a single Apple ID.

I pay for Apple's top tier of iCloud account storage (have plenty of space) and all my devices (iPhone, iPad and Mac) have iCloud toggled on for all Apple apps.

I just want to be clear, I'm a big Apple fan and really want iCloud services to work - and they do most of the time. But most of the time is not good enough when it comes to data syncing and integrity.