iCloud Notes will not save. Windows 11 device New problem

Thanks. This is definately better than nothing. Good job.

Expect the paste action to take a LONG time - in my case my browser asks me if I want to close the tab it takes so long.

Then to delete the original note (so you don't end up with endless unsaved copies) I have to refresh again and this process also take a LONG time too. Sigh.

Regardless, however, it IS a work-around that DOES eventually work.

Thanks at2008rus

Thank you for the suggestion. I was able to create a new note, then copy the text from the old note into the new note directly. All the formatting was saved, and I can now make (and save) changes to the new note.

Did you read the solution I suggested?

Sam problem for last 1-2 weeks. The suggestion by ariel regarding shortening note length did not work for me. This has completely wrecked my daily task list that I rely on.

YES. The refresh (+ copy, paste) saves the new note. (then delect the old note).

Thanks at2008rus

When clicking of the page i'll get the Chrome prompt warning "Changes Saved? Changes you made may not be saved." Started same time as you.

I just tested it again and entered three lines into a note. got the "not saved" wanring. closed out and came back. the first line was saved and the next two were not

Same problem, started a week or two ago I believe. Accessing icloud.com using Chrome on Windows 11. Coincidentally I recently installed iCloud for Windows App (which is worthless) so I had wondered if that was an issue. I'm guessing it's not -- as I found a related issue. I brought up Safari on my iPhone, accessed iCloud.com, went into Notes and made a change. "Some" of the text shows up in Notes (accessed directly through Notes app on iPhone) but not all, and it takes forever. Then on Safari I clicked into iCloud.com Pictures, then back into iCloud.com Notes, and now it's "loading" forever. To me, it looks like there's definitely an issue with browser access into iCloud Notes.

I'm having the same problem :( I use apple notes on windows 11 and on Google Chrome. But I've also had apple notes saving issues in the past, but they've been on and off on for pc at least. On iPhone, Apple notes works completely fine.

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Ok after some playing around, I thought I found a makeshift solution and I thought it would work beautifully but all I found was a really annoying/tedious workaround. (I'm using Apple Notes on Google Chrome Windows 11) All I know for sure is that there's definitely a saving/syncing problem on PC Apple Notes and I don't know why.

Workaround:

1. Type whatever you need to type on apple notes--be mindful of the top right status of your notes. (It should say 'Edited')

2. As soon as the website goes from 'Edited' to 'Saving...' just stop typing--whatever else you try to type will barely save or won't save at all. (Trust me I tested this with a 5 minute wait time)

3. Go to the top right of your screen click on the avatar icon and click sign out. Then Click Trust and Sign Out (to save you time, but if you press sign out it worked too)

4. You should see "Changes are being saved" header just press cancel to this (to save you time) and on the top of your screen after clicking cancel, you should see 'Leave site' header at least on Google Chrome--click leave.

5. Then if you followed the steps correctly you should be on your icloud hub still signed in. Just click on your notes again, if you notice on the top right as you enter notes again the "Saving..." will say "Saved"

I tried waiting for 5 minutes multiple times during the 2nd step and 3rd step to see if Apple Notes would properly save/sync characters I typed after I typed when it already said 'Saving...' but it wouldn't save the full message. And even with this workaround a few characters might not save. I don't why there is no manual save button on the website...

Same issue with me, I use notes a lot on PC and I have to refresh it all the time before I write something up. At first I thought it was my browser that was causing the issues but I am glad its not just me that's having these issues and hope to see a fix soon

Same problem for me....it just says "saving" at the top of the page. If I make changes on phone/ipad it saves, it's just on the pc web browsers that it doesn't. Tried 4 different browsers, clearing the cache..just won't save. Tried copying and making a new note...still won't save. Gah.

Your solution fixed my problem perfectly! Thank you very much. I have one main "To Do" note that I'm updating constantly while at the office. Not being able to edit that not on my desktop was really frustrating. But, I just copied it into a new note, deleted the old note, and now life is back to normal. Thanks again!

I'm having the same issue on Windows 11 with both Microsoft Edge & Firefox browsers. So I suspect this is an Apple bug rather than a Windows issue. This is a problem for me as I am constantly updating shared notes. I suspect Apple aren't that interested in supporting Windows so this could take a long time to be resolved.

I don't want to try the workarounds suggested here (copying the note contents, deleting the note, creating a new one and pasting in the old content) as that means the note has to be reshared and will break things if anyone else is editing it at the same time.

Are there any good third party products that allow shared notes on iphone/windows/web?

Same bug for months. I can only edit once, and after that it will be « saving » forever. I am using only 1 Note, a big checklist. I am wondering if it could be because I am using different languages between devices. Else, I tried many things, unsuccesfully…