How do I get my Notes to iCloud?

The only way to do that that I know of so far is with CopyTrans Contacts (requires PC and iPhone USB connection for it to work). I copy/paste the instructions directly as they appear on the guide:

1. Download CopyTrans Contacts from the following page: http://www.copytrans.net/copytranscontacts.php

2. First, you need to connect your iCloud account with the program. To do so, from the main program window, navigate to “More > Cloud setup”

3. Click “+ New connection” and then click “iCloud”

4. Next, enter your iCloud account credentials, check the box next to Notes and click “Add account”

5. Close the “Cloud setup” window and from the main program window click the Notes icon on the left. You will see both the local iPhone notes saved within the “On My iPhone” account and the notes from your iCloud account. The iCloud notes are marked by a small cloud icon

6. Now select a local iPhone note, right-click and choose “Move to…” or “Copy to…”. Finally, choose your iCloud account. In my case, it appears simply as “iCloud account”.

7. You can transfer multiple notes from “On My iPhone” account to your iCloud account at the same time. To select multiple notes, simply check the box next to each respective note.

NOTE: The “Move to…” function transfers the local iPhone note to the iCloud account and deletes the original note. The “Copy to…” function copies the local iPhone note to the iCloud account and keeps the original note under “On My iPhone”

8. The selected local iPhone notes are now transferred to iCloud. This is indicated by the small cloud icon which appears next to each of the respective notes

9. You can verify that the local iPhone notes were moved to iCloud by logging in to iCloud and navigating to the Notes section

10. The notes which previously appeared locally under “On My iPhone” are now saved to iCloud

I just discovered that on IOS 9 with the new notes app you can now easily move the notes from "On My Phone" to "iCloud".

Just go to your notes "On my phone", then "Edit" then "Move all" and select the folder on iCloud and voila, the notes move to iCloud in seconds.

I just moved 70 notes and it worked great. I went to icloud.com and there they all were. Thanks for the enhancement Apple 🙂

That's the "back" button, it doesn't help anything. I'm trying to *move* my non-iCloud notes to iCloud, not simply find them. I know where they are and how to view them, that's not the problem. "Edit" is greyed out and I can't select it in the folder view.

No, that is the button you tap to get to the screen where your different notes folders are listed: iCloud, On My Phone, Gmail, etc.

Go to that screen, and select the notes folder that you want to move to icloud

Yes - I know that the Edit key is greyed out on the Folder screen. You have to select the folder you want to move the notes from....

When the notes display, tap on Edit, then on "Move All"

I see both a Delete All option and a Move All option....one is on the right and one is on the left.

Are you signed into iCloud on your device, and do you have the Notes option turned on in iCloud?

GB

I am signed into ICloud, notes is turned on, it's syncing some the notes created under the ICloud folder just fine.

Selecting a folder just brings me back to the list of notes, which only shows a "delete" option when things are selected, regardless of folder. There is no move button, there is nothing in the left on any page other than the compose page. The only options are delete and cancel.

That little icon in the bottom left corner, the 4 boxes, I don't have that. Where your screen shows "move all" and "delete all" in the bottom corners, I only have "delete all". I do have the option to add a photo by long pressing in the note screen, just like if I wanted to paste some text. I'm using 9.3.1, which is what my phone seems to have shipped with (iPhone SE), so I haven't upgraded the OS myself. There is no update to the Notes app available for me in the app store, so I'm not sure how that would be upgraded separately. Due to the reports of devices being bricked, I'm not installing the 9.3.2 update, I'll wait for the next one, but that couldn't be the problem since it wasn't available when the last posts were made. Is this a feature that was removed with 9.3.1?

Hello! I was having the same problem here, but seeing the photos of the last post, I noticed that it was Updated Notes, and mine were Old.

So I Updated my notes, and then I had the functions that you say you don't have, as I didn't have too.

Hope it helps!

The "move" option would be a lot better if "iCloud" were one of the available options. I have iCloud with over 200 notes there. 8 notes are stranded on my iPad and cannot be moved, except into a different folder on my iPad.

I used copy and paste to write new notes on my iCloud account. (Why doesn't "select All" appear in Notes?). It is clunky solution but the only thing available.

Hi. On my iPhone 7, this is not working. I have set up Notes up to use iCloud and I think I have done that correctly (but maybe not). When I select a note to move, iCloud does not show up as a choice in the folder list. Only On My Phone is available. Is there something I need to do after I've set it all up? Synch with iTunes? Backup to iCloud (I've done that)?

This isn't making sense to me.

TIA

Thanks for the reply.

I think I've done that. Under Settings>iCloud, the Notes slider is green. Under Settings>Notes>Default Account, it's set to iCloud.

Does anything else need to be changed?

This article tells how to get rid of duplicates easily:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4191

There may be another way, but I finally copied and pasted them from the on my Mac account to the iCloud account. Only new notes sync created in the iCloud account sync.

I have (so far) just an iPhone and iPad2. How do I get the old notes to associate with the iCloud account instead of gmail?

Or do I wait until I buy a Mac?

Thanks.

This worked! Thanks! Still trying to figure out the Notes sync thing....but this is a great start!