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Notes wont sync between Iphone and Mac on Mountain Lion

I am not sure how to get my notes to sync between my iphone and mac on Mountain Lion. Reminds works fine but when i went to look at notes I noticed that on my iphone under iCloud i didn't have notes turned on. So when i turned it on it said something about needing to create a @me address so i created one but now my notes are synched. Am I missing something?

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 8:41 AM

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Jul 25, 2012 9:04 AM in response to fullme

I'm pulling my hair out of this one too--frankly the Notes sync is the reason I upgraded to Mountain Lion in the first place.


I read in the Macworld review that you have to have a valid IMAP email account specified in the Mail, Contacts & Calendars section of System Preferences on your Mac, but I don't know how to do that since that free @me.com account that I just created didn't ask me for a password.


Even stranger, while I can't see any of the notes from my iPod Touch on my MacBook Air, I *can* see notes that I created on my MacBook Air on my iPod Touch, but only in the new @me.com account in the Mail app, of all places, This is ridiculous!


Considering how wonderfully simple Apple makes everything, the way they've implemented Notes sync is almost criminal. Why can't it be as easy as reminders, contacts, and calendar?

Jul 25, 2012 9:09 AM in response to Yer_Man

I tried that, but it keeps turning itself off on the MacBook Air.


I have turned on Notes sync on my iPod Touch, both under iCloud and in the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section of the Settings app on my Touch.


It all seems to be tied to that @me.com email account I was forced to create on my Touch in order to turn on Notes sync, I just can't figure out how to add that same account on my Air.

Jul 25, 2012 9:27 AM in response to whitewater2

whitewater2, Thanks for the suggestion. I deleted my iCloud account from my iphone and then signed in again and it now appears that notes are syncing between my mac and iphone. Although old notes that i had on my iphone were not syched to my mac. it looks like it is only syncing new notes going forward.


Thanks again.

Jul 25, 2012 9:31 AM in response to fullme

So it doesn't sync existing notes? That's a major problem for me. I guess I can export them all and then copy and paste, but that sure isn't up to Apple standards, IMHO. Everything else in the cloud works so flawlessly!


There's still no separate section on iCloud.com either, though the notes I created on my Air are showing up in the Mail section of the site.

Jul 25, 2012 9:49 AM in response to whitewater2

I sure hope so--that would make things much, much easier. Hope that new iCloud site launches soon, or at least with the release of iOS 6.


I still don't know how to sign out of iCloud on my Touch though, and can't find any definitive answer here in support or on the web though.


Can you give a girl a hand? I'm still a Mac newbie, having been "born" a PC when I started with computers way back when.

Notes wont sync between Iphone and Mac on Mountain Lion

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