intel iMac- v10.6, iOS 4, iMac Power PC, iPod, Airport, Droid
Go to Preferences in Mac email on your computer (instead of your phone) > open Accounts > open Gmail Account > select Mailbox behaviors and uncheck "Show notes in inbox". This stops your notes on your iphone from appearing in your email box and just stores them locally on your phone.
I'm having the same problem as well. It's really frustrating. Is there any way to stop Notes from emailing me without erasing all my existing notes?
Check to see if any of your mail accounts on the device have a setting for notes to turn it on/off. Go to settings>mail contacts calendars. Tap on each account and see if it has a setting for notes.
SOLUTION - iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.1.3) AT&T
This worked on my iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.3 on the AT&T network...My iPhone is not jailbroken or unlocked, so I cannot be sure about those devices!
STEP 1: WARNING: BACK UP YOUR NOTES AS THEY WILL BE DELETED FROM YOUR iPHONE
STEP 2: Go to Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
STEP 3: Go into EACH email account individually and slide OFF notes! (I know this will work for Gmail, but I am not sure about other email account types. You will have to go into them and see if there is a "slider" for notes. My email is a Gmail account.)
That's it. Let me know if it worked for you! My fiancé has a iPhone 5C (iOS 7) so if you are having this same issue on a 5C running iOS 7 I can mess around with hers and try to figure it out for you...Good luck fellow iPeople!
Hello! Thanks for the help but when I turn "off" the notes and go back to my notes on the ipad the notes I have made disapear. It is really frustrating because I dont understand why its doing this. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Blueoyster101 provided the answer I needed, with my acceptance of the (bizarre and inexplicable) side effect that turning off synching hides all existing Notes. Happily I didn't have any Notes I wasn't prepared to lose.
jessicafromlower hutt's information was interesting, but since I don't have a Mac, or Mac email (just a 3g iPad), not sure how to apply it. I gather it's Mac email's configuration of the gmail account, not something on gmail.
I'm replying to honolulu75, because I agree the issue is very frustrating, but completely disagree that this is "way too simple." The Notes app designers made a strange choice, and provided no means to modify it. Turn off synching and lose access to saved information? That's crazy.
I followed blueoyster101 instructions and thankfully turned off the email however, now that all my notes have disappeared is there a way to get them back? I had some extremely important information on some of them.
TFT. Logging into iCloud (again? and have to agree to the TOS, again?), I see that Notes are shown "OFF", apparently having picked up the Settings / Mail account specification. (Everything else cane up ON.)
FULL SOLUTION (iOS 7!)
On my iPhone 4S it worked.
STEP 1: Go to Settings → Notes → Default Account, then select "On my iPhone". It was previously on Gmail no wonder!!
STEP 2: Go to Settings → Mail, Contacts, Calendars, then in EACH email account go into them and slide OFF notes! My email accounts are Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo. WARNING: BACK UP YOUR EMAIL NOTES AS THEY WILL BE DELETED.
("Are you sure you want to continue? All Gmail notes will be deleted from your iPhone")
So that's it. Let me know if it worked for you!!!
Thanks jessicafromlower hutt -- perfect solution for getting notes out of my email. 🙂
This was the answer to this very frustrating issue. Way too simple.
Try going into settings>icloud and turning notes off (yes they won't sync, but they sync via email)
Worth a shot.
Stop Notes from email to myself
