Notes from my iPhone disappeared post accepting new iCloud Terms and Condition.

after reading someone was advised to delete notes app then download it again. I decided to back up my phone first. Which automatically backed up older ipad that had icloud notes. At some point I went back into setting my name and notes. Turned sync this phone off for about a minute turned it back on. Was about to delete notes app and icloud folders were back loading back onto phone!! I had turned battery saver off. Next time I do anythi g like this againI will turn battery save off, back up my device. Now got to consider IOS 18. But not after todays problems

I found the same issue but once I updated to the latest IOS 17.7.1 (i was already on a version of 17) version avail on my phone, my notes all came back and the icloud/notes feature was turned back on. Phew!!!

Hi,

I think you may be looking in the ‘Manage Account Storage’ menu which will shows the message that all notes will be deleted from iCloud…don’t do this!

Just underneath that option you’ll see ‘Apps using iCloud’. Click ‘Show All’ then go to Notes and carry on from there. It will pop up with the message that it will delete all iCloud messages from this device which is fine as it will put them back on when you reselect it.

Just be sure to read the pop up warnings carefully as some people may have different set ups to me.

Hope this helps! 👍

Hi,

Had this too and found a simple fix….

1) Go to Settings and search for iCloud

2) Select iCloud Apple ID (at the top of the list)

3) Under ‘Apps using iCloud’ select Show All

4) Select Notes

5) Turn off ‘Sync this Phone’ and wait for a few seconds

6) Turn ‘Sync this Phone’ back on

This should kick the notes app back into life to use iCloud again.

Hope this works for you and helps a few others along the way 😊

Brilliant. Thank you for the information. I had the same problem after accepting new T & C’s.

1 - Deleted the Note App (as mine were still in the iCloud).

2 - Re installed the note app.

All ‘lost’ notes reappeared in less than 2 minutes !

Mine also vanished. So I navigated to iCloud settings on my phone. Checked that Notes are turned on for syncing. Toggled the switch to turn it off. It asks if you want to delete Notes from iCloud, and I just chose no. That seemed to somehow push the syncing and my notes are back. 🤷🏻‍♀️

happened to me too and i was like what BUT don’t do anything drastic- just give it 10 mins or longer!! mine all slowly came back onto my notes app. just don’t panic and let them come back :) mine are all back now as normal.

Yay notes are back!

IPHONE 11 PRO MAX

Go to settings -> Go to notes -> Click sync this phone -> Should update after that!

Hope this helps somone!

This morning I see the iCloud T&C alert on the lock screen.

Sadly, Apple doesn't tell us what has changed, so I scroll through the entire EULA and don't see anything suspicious. Once again, a software update wasting my time. 😤

I accept the T&C, and it required my iPhone (11 Pro) lock screen code. I've never seen this type of behavior before, after an Apple app update. Maybe it's 'cuz iCloud?

I tell Wifey and she spots the problem: Notes app has no notes.

I come to this fine community to find the solution of un-sync'ing then re-sync'ing Notes in the Control Panel.

Well, I get skittish at the last moment and don't un-sync, 'cuz I see several megabytes of storage used, and that Notes is [correctly] using iCloud. This was odd 'cuz Notes indicated zero notes/data. Therefore, there must be some data the app has stored, right?

I go back to Notes and see nothing. Then I go back to the Control Panel/iCloud/Notes and see the spinning spokes (not the beachball). I go back to Notes and the number of notes begins increasing. I go back to Settings and everything looks correct. Back to Notes and—thankfully—all my notes are there.

Dear Apple,

When giving us T&C updates, please tell us what changed. It can't be that difficult.

Sincerely,

Apple iCloud users.

I have an older iPhone (X). This worked for me: settings->iCloud->then turn off “Access iCloud data on the web”->go to notes and watch them reload. Then switch “Access iCloud data on the web” back on.

What worked for me was;

1. Delete the app and download it again.
2. Go to Settings - icloud - apps using icloud - Notes
3. Turn off Sync this Iphone (delete notes) and then turn on.

Hope this helps.

So others have mentioned changing the default account helps, and it did for me with an additional step. If when you look at your default accounts you don’t see iCloud directly listed as an option, just your other emails and/or On My iPhone, then you need to go back a page, and re enter your associated iCloud account. I then unselected on my iPhone as the default, selected iCloud, and re-selected On My iPhone as the default account. After a while my notes loaded again. I did still lose quite a few from the On My iPhone account but the iCloud ones were mostly recovered to my knowledge. Hope you get them restored!

When my Notes disappeared i turned off my phone, waited a few minutes and turned it back on.

I have over 400 ‘notes’ so it too a while for all of them to reload. But that worked for me.

Think of your phone as a mini computer. When a computer goes thru an update it has to be re-started for everything to be updated.

Hope this helps

I also had same experience, all notes gone after downloading iCloud update today- very scary!

I went to Settings, iCloud Drive, turned off "Sync this iPhone", and when it turned off- they all started downloading immediately. (thank God!) then went back and turned on "sync this iPhone" in the iCloud drive again. Hope this helps someone!