notes are gone after accepting new icloud terms and conditions

After the updated most of my notes are gone. What's left are only some parts of notes, and now they are divided by year. I had some notes that i have added to for over 5 years and now some parts are missing and the remainder are divide into separate notes by year.

I tried going to notes on icloud and turning off then back on the sync notes with this device, then waited...nothing. I turned the device off then back on, but that didn't work. If anyone has. solution for how to I may recover my notes I would be "eternally" grateful.

Mine are gone. I’ve tried the tips here and still gone. I had left a marriage where I was gaslit and would keep journals of different happenings soon after the events so I could go back and see I’m not crazy. I’d write or take photos and store them in my notes. All of it gone. Some cute sayings my kids would say, or poems I’d write and share with no one. It was basically my journal and loved being able to go back and see how far we’ve come… all of it gone. 😭

Update! I worked on this last night and it didn’t work. Mentally prepared myself they would never come back… checked this morning and they’re all back! Give “if I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.” Vibes. 😂

I had lost all mine and spent 2 days trying to fix it. In the end I had to go into iCloud and request my data to be transferred. I’ll try and post the details I got to follow. All back now !!

Very helpful. Whew! My notes are back

Same here! They do appear in my macbook so at least I know they are not gone forever, but I got scared at first because they don’t appear in my iphone (se 2020, iOS 16.smth). Hope they fix it soon.

This worked for me. It restored Notes back. Thanks for sharing!

No. Just go back to notes and they should be back.

thanks very much, it fixed it

That worked! Bless you.

I restarted my phone after accepting the new T&C and my notes came back.

Yes, this absolutely worked for me. But 1st I had to delete the App from my iphone and then get it again on the App Store. Thanks, brilliant. What a shocker eh!

This worked! TYSM! After step 5, I had an alert that said deleting notes would delete data, so I canceled and went to my notes. Everything started to load back onto my phone. You’re a life saver.

This worked for me as well 😭 I was so panicked and nearly in tears, terrified I was going to lose a lot of important notes. Thank you for sharing this info!! 🫡

Mine came back! I went into Notes settings and changed “default account” from iCloud to “on my phone.” All my notes reloaded. Hope this works for everyone else!