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

DO NOT FOLLOW THE STEPS SUGGESTED TO TOGGLE NOTES OFF AND ON IF YOUR ICLOUD IS NOT UPDATED and CURRENTLY BACKED UP!!!!! This will only allow whatever is on your iCloud to pull in and you’ll lose everything else that was local on your phone. The Apple support rep said if you don’t do this and call them, they can likely restore all your notes. Once you’ve done this, you can’t get them back. I hit cancel when the message “Will delete…” came up, but she’s still looking to see if maybe she can restore them. She can’t find anymore notes currently though….. so fingers crossed.

Also, apparently Apple doesn’t monitor this community, so if you don’t report issues to them, they never track the data of people having issues. There may be a ton more out there that the engineers could be tracking and finding out what went wrong if you call

apple and don’t just post here. Something I learned today. 🤪

CompactSwing you’re actually a lifesaver. went to my notes app to put down a draft for a bug report on discord and found out all of my notes were gone; figured it was because of the icloud agreement. i had several medication logs, years of writing, notes for video game builds, and dream logs — all stuff i don’t want to lose. thank you. i seriously thought i lost all of it.

I had the same happen to me. It happened because I didn’t agree to begin with, I closed the app bc it was taking ages. But after I saw it deleted all of my notes, I went back and did it. Then I watched my notes come back BUT the issue is that it’s about 2 months BEHIND

ive lost MONTHS worth of notes because of this and I’ve been talking to Apple support. They’re suggesting I update my phone and make sure I’ve got enough storage and whatnot. This is insane frustrating and I’m really bothered by this. These notes are SUPER important

im on an iPhone XR on version 16.1 but am updating to iOS18 rn

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.

Unfortunately the tips on here have not worked

Tried this didn’t work and icloud didn’t come up as above in iphone 14 pro. Icloud was listed in accounts though

When i do this, it says that if i follow through all icloud notes will be deleted. Did this happen to anyone else?

Mine did not come back either. I am so ****** off at Apple

I have the same issue and have lost notes saved to phone not iCloud. Frustrating that it just happened without warning. Please tag me if you find a solution Thanks

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.

Same just happened to me today Nov.6.2024. I accepted the new ICloud terms and all my notes vanished. I tried most of the suggestions highlighted on this forum but didn’t work for me. I really rely on my notes and don’t know what to do.

Extremely disappointed and frustrated

Sadly none of these options have worked for me . I will just have to hope that in time they will reappear . So much info in my notes because I didn’t envisage this ever happening . Bad update Apple .. disappointed .

The same happened to me. I tried the following but ran into trouble, anyone run into similar and figured it out?

1 turned phone on and off

2 Can't toggle the apps using iCloud to "Sync this phone" as its the only option (no iCloud option)

3 could not delete the notes app and reinstall because it says "it will delete everything" and I don't want to take a chance.

Help! I have almost 350 notes and I put way too much faith in the iCloud system.

Yes same problem here “October 25!” I’ve lost every note update from October 25th to today. These notes were only supposed to be “On My iPhone” … I have not been able to get anything past that date … ughhh! Nightmare waste of time! Is it irony that iCloud did this… 😠