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Regarding Notes and iCloud, if you have all of your devices, iPad, iPhone and Mac Mail set to sync Notes with iCloud, all of your notes will appear on all of your devices. If you turn off Notes syncing with iCloud on any one device, those notes will remain only on that device.

If new Notes show up in your Mail Inbox and you delete them, they will be deleted on ALL of your devices. The key to that is to not have them show up in your Inbox.

There is a "Notes" menu item in Mac Mail menu under "Reminders". This is where all of the Notes are sync'd on your Mac. On iDevices they are in the Notes App.

The reason they disappear is that the default in the iCloud Preferences is "Show notes in Inbox". So whenever you create a new note it will show up in your Inbox. If and when it's deleted or moved to another folder, it will be removed from all of your devices.

To stop new Notes from showing up in your Inbox make the following change to your iCloud Account Preferences:

1. Open Mail
2. Control-click or right click on the Notes Folder or your iCloud account in the Mac Mail Inbox.
3. Click on "Account Info" and the Account Info box will appear.
4. Click on the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab and uncheck "Show Notes in Inbox".

The same applies to deleting a Note from any one device as long as you have it set to sync with iCloud. If you delete a note from your iPad it will delete it from your iPhone and Mac...no matter where the note first originated.

Hope that makes sense and helps!

Very good advice. And I hope you could help me with a similar problem. I just upgraded to iOS 5 and have been experimenting with iCloud. I later found that the notes that I created would show up on my husband's iPhone because we shared one common yahoo email account. He also has other email accounts on his iPhone, and my notes showed up on his iPhone notes under that common yahoo account. This is pretty annoying, so we decided to both turned off the iCloud notes sync on our devices, but the problem persists. We then both deleted our iCloud accounts, but surprisingly the notes under the common yahoo account continue to sync. This is very strange as if the Notes has turned into a rouge app that we can't control. It just automatically sync for us via wifi even though we turned off the iCloud on both devices. Any clues?

FLYuan wrote:

Very good advice. And I hope you could help me with a similar problem. I just upgraded to iOS 5 and have been experimenting with iCloud. I later found that the notes that I created would show up on my husband's iPhone because we shared one common yahoo email account. He also has other email accounts on his iPhone, and my notes showed up on his iPhone notes under that common yahoo account. This is pretty annoying, so we decided to both turned off the iCloud notes sync on our devices, but the problem persists. We then both deleted our iCloud accounts, but surprisingly the notes under the common yahoo account continue to sync. This is very strange as if the Notes has turned into a rouge app that we can't control. It just automatically sync for us via wifi even though we turned off the iCloud on both devices. Any clues?

Well, that sounds frustrating! I'm not familiar with Yahoo (haven't used it in probably a decade) but I do know that the Notes App has nothing to do with it. iOS Notes on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch as well as the Notes Application on OS X Mac are only synced via iCloud. If you turn syncing off or don't have iCloud they can't sync.

So it sounds like you'd need to look at your Yahoo Mail account settings to configure how it's working. I found this...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/settings/

Hope that helps and best of luck!