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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Thanks jessicafromlower hutt -- perfect solution for getting notes out of my email. 🙂
This was the answer to this very frustrating issue. Way too simple.
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.
Try going into settings>icloud and turning notes off (yes they won't sync, but they sync via email)
Worth a shot.
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.)
Thanks so much! That did the trick!
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.
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!!!
Stop Notes from email to myself
