notes are gone after accepting new icloud terms and conditions

This worked for me thank you.

In addition, I would make a habit of regularly backing up notes. calendars, etc to any old iPhones or other Apple devices that you have, then disabling Internet on said device(s) for as long as you don't need to use them.

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!

Tried all suggestions to retrieve notes. I am not sure how to get into icloud back ups on iphone 14 pro. However turned on my older ipad 6 th generation missing notes are there. However on my iphone icloud account notes are the missing notes. On default list it only lists on my phone and my gmail account to choose from. I cant seem to be able to get icloud onto my notes. Despite being listed as 1 of 4 accounts eg yahoo mail etc. Would having my phone on battery saving have affected accepting new icloud terms?

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 was freaking out so bad because i'm a writer and i have most of my unfinished drafts and such in my notes app because i'm stupid i guess idk but this worked thank u so much i hope you have a fantastic day <3

Just went to my notes and they were gone! I came here immediately and I too had just accepted the new ICloud terms! I was horrified that they were all gone and I had no idea what happened. Thank goodness for this discussion, I followed what the person above 👆me advised and it did take a few minutes to get all my notes but they did finally come onto my phone! Thank you !

All the same issues with my 7plus. I accepted required terms 11/6/2024. Next day all notes vanished. My notes are supposed to be backed up on iCloud, and yes still toggled on. However, they are not there either. Something like 4 years worth simply gone. I have yet to find a deleted folder, actually I have zero folders in notes nothing at all there. They are very important. Thank you for the information not to delete the app!

Perfect!! Thank you, they all can back PHEW.

I did press CANCEL when it said ‘delete from iPhone’ as I did not want to risk it and all the notes still returned without actually switching the SYNC off ….

Turn your phone off and turn it on again. Simples 🙂

"Have you tried turning it off and on again...?" isn't just a comedy line, it's often the solution.

That's what I did - turned my iPhone off and restarted it - and hundreds of Notes are now synching back from iCloud to my phone.

Toggling Notes off and on in iCloud settings would also work, but I got a warning that some edits made on my phone hadn't synched to the cloud and would be lost if I did that.

Simple is best.

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!!!

Did you finally manage to get them back in your iPhone? I have restored just the ones from iCloud before year 2021 that are not important to me. And nothing from the years 2023-2024 that I had saved only on my iPhone….

Crisis averted, thank you! To anyone not having luck with this, try it with your phone plugged in and connected to wifi.

May seem obvious to most people, but it had slipped my mind and the sync wasn’t happening for me initially.

Did you have any folders and sub folders created? If so, did your folders and sub folders return back to normal? When I followed the steps you gave, everything came back but they all came back as folders. No sub folders👎🏾

The solution of deleting the Notes app and then redownloading it worked for me when the other solutions mentioned above didn't. Luckily I could see that the notes were still there on my laptop. On the new download I could see the On my iCloud option which was previously not there. Once selected, all my notes came back.

Obvious solution really, but it should not have happened. Everyone I know with an older iPhone has been affected. Mine is an XR

i have iphone13 and when you toggle the “sync this iPhone off it asks you to choose Delete from my iPhone or cancel. It shows the command clocking while waiting for a response. It does not turn off at that point. After 5 minutes of waiting it still doesn’t toggle off. If I choose the delete option will it also delete the notes on iCloud?