How did a note I was typing on my iPad get sent to my Thunderbird email on my PC but not on my iOS devices?

I am apparently quite naive on Notes. I never comprehended that IOS Notes would have ties to my gmail account. I can think of no reason why I would want that. But I went through Settings/Email and Settings/Notes and found some ambiguous settings in my gmail account that implied it had access to notes.

Then I found in my Notes App that Gmail had setup a directory and planted me there, unbeknownst to me of course. The final link in the process was that I had inadvertently composed my latest Note in the Gmail directory.

I copied the text onto a new page in On my iPad and shutdown gmail permissions to my Note app.

So. Gmail sneaked a change to my Notes app and stole the default settings.

Gmail and Thunderbird then joined forces and created lots of emails from me to me , but only viewable on Thunderbird on my laptop, but not seen in my iOS iPad and iPhone mail boxes.

pretty crazy eh?

I think I’ve thwarted the takeover bid by Gmail by disabling gmail permissions on my iPad. Thanks Mark for making me aware.

Now I have to check out our iPhones……..

My iPad is on my home network. It has no cellular capability. I could have worded that better.

My iCloud backup for Notes is turned off.

I am using the Apple iOS mail app, nothing fancy.

I don’t understand how iOS Notes can even generate an email and it worries me that it even can (did- and 20+ of them).

I cannot fathom a thread of a connection between Notes and Mail on an iPad and how did Windows Thunderbird show received mail whereas my iPhone does not.

This is perplexing and concerning.

Thanks for the response Mark.

The note I wrote is stored on my iPad. I edited it again this morning on my iPad, then found another 20 instances of it on my laptop Thunderbird mail application.

This is today’s episode. Do you see any clues?