Hi SravanKrA,
Thanks for your reply. I have two iPads and an iPhone, and the only accounts (folders) that the Notes app on all three devices are attached to are the iCloud account/folder that they all came with and a Gmail account/folder (and the iPhone has the “on my iPhone” folder). I almost always do all of my writing in the iPhone Notes app, not the iPads.
I just now followed the procedure in your four photos, and I discovered that although the iPhone and one of my iPads have the Gmail folder as the default folder for the Notes app, this iPad I’m writing on now actually has iCloud as the default folder. I had thought all three of them had Gmail as their default folder, which I believe (although I’m not sure) had always been the case in the past. My recollection is that in the past, the three devices had synced with each other accurately. However, these three devices that I currently own are all new as of March, because in March my previous iPhone and two iPads were stolen, and I bought all of these current three new devices that day. Before March, I believe that all three devices were synced with each other and had the same collection of notes on each device. But I started noticing at some point that the iPads were not syncing with my iPhone. Now that—thanks to you—I have made this discovery that the iPad I’m writing on now actually has iCloud as it’s default folder, that seemingly indicates that the problem with the syncing of the three devices began when I bought the new ones in March.
Before I downloaded iOS 17.1.1 on November 16, the Gmail folder in my iPhone Notes app had more than 4000 notes in it. The number of notes in the two iPads was I believe a lot less. After downloading the new iOS, I had only a little more than 2000 notes in my iPhone instead of more than 4000, and after downloading the new iOS I now had almost the same approximately 2000 notes in both iPads, unlike previously when I’m pretty much sure neither of the iPads had as many as the more than 4000 notes that my iPhone had. So it looks like maybe there was some kind of downloading from the iCloud that actually brought both iPads up-to-date with the now only approximately 2000 notes on my iPhone after the new iOS download? My iPhone Gmail Notes app (using GMAIL as the default Notes app account) currently has 2112 notes in it; this iPad I’m writing on (the one that has ICLOUD as its default Notes app account) also has 2112 notes in it; and the other iPad (which has GMAIL as its default Notes app account) has only 2103 notes on it. It looks like discrepancy of nine notes can be accounted for by some notes I wrote in my iPhone today.
So anyway, now the question is, is there some way for me to recover the 2000 or so notes that I lost from my iPhone when I downloaded iOS 17.1.1? The iPhone and my other iPad are the ones that have the Gmail folder as a default account and the iPad that I am writing on is the one that has the iCloud folder as its default account. But there have been other iOS downloads between March and now, and I have never ever lost any notes in any iOS download since I have owned these types of devices since 2013 or since I purchased the new versions of these devices in March.
I guess we need to keep in mind that I believe neither iPad had anywhere near the full amount of notes that my iPhone had before the new iOS download (more than 4000). In fact, I believe that both iPads may have had less than the 2000 or so notes they currently have, because I believe they may have acquired some notes from my iPhone during this latest iOS download. At any rate, if I’m right about all this, the iCloud would not contain the missing 2000 notes from my iPhone Gmail folder, unless the expectation would’ve been that the iCloud would’ve preserved the notes from the Gmail folders in addition to the iCloud folder— but apparently that’s what has always happened to the past, so why not this time?
If you can help me to recover the 2000 or so missing notes from my iPhone Notes Gmail folder, that would be really awesome!
Thanks, David (Wellsprings1).
