How can I get notes from iphone to notes on Mac

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changing the default account for Notes on your iPhone to your iCloud account? Now all future notes that i create on my iphone will go onto my icloud acct. Here's how: On your iphone, go to settings>notes>default account>icloud.

it will not move all the current notes to the cloud for you, but I emailed those notes on the iphone to myself, then copy/ pasted them into the icloud notes acct. and deleted them from iphone>gmail acct, and any other acct.

After reading the above and the other thread someone mentioned, I managed to get mine sorted out. Like many of you, I did not have my iPhone notes on my Mac, nor were they in my iCloud.

What I did was follow Robin's instructions mentioned above to find the old copies of my notes on my Mac buried inside:

~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Notes.mbox/

You have to copy the text out of the notes and paste them in Notes on your Mac to recreate them, so you're going to lose the original file dates. For me, most of the dates didn't really matter but some did. I also wanted to keep the notes in the same order. So, what I did was this:

1. Open Notes and make sure you've selected iCloud notes by clicking the icon below the probably empty list of notes, so you can see the far left column. If you don't see your iCloud account, go to Notes menu and click Accounts, and turn on iCloud syncing for Notes.
2. Recover old notes available on your Mac:
   1. Create a folder on your Desktop or something to hold copies of your emix files.
   2. Click down thru the directories to find the emix files (named things like 100096.emlx) and drag them to the Desktop folder (hold down alt when you drag them to preserve the originals, if you want). This will take a few minutes...
   3. Sort the notes by date so the oldest at the top.
   4. Open the oldest note and type cmd-A, cmd-C to copy all the test (no need to click the text itself before the cmd-A).
   5. Click + button in Notes to create a new iCloud note and paste the text in. If the note's date is important you'll be able to see it at the top of the emix file and you can add it to the title of the new note.
   6. Close the emix file and go to the next in Finder.
   7. Repeat 4-6 until you've have all the old ones copied.
   8. Note the date of the newest note here.
3. Get newer notes off you iPhone:
   1. On your iPhone, check the dates of the newest notes to figure out which notes are too new to be on your Mac at all.
   2. Open the oldest of these and click the arrow thing at the bottom and tap email to email it to yourself.
   3. Repeat 2 going up the list (or clicking the left arrow at the bottom) until you get all the new ones emailed.
   4. On your Mac, open the message, copy all the text out and paste it into a new Note; delete your sig off the bottom.
   5. Repeat 4 for all the messages.
4. Clean up:
   1. On your iPhone, make sure you have iCloud notes turned on under Preferences/iCloud.
   2. Also on iPhone, go to Preferences/Notes and set your default account to your iCloud account so new notes are created on iCloud.
   3. In Notes on your iPhone, click go to the notes list and then click left to Accounts and tap on iCloud so you are looking at your iCloud notes.
   4. Once you're sure you're ok with your iCloud notes, you could delete your old iPhone notes.
   5. On your Mac, delete your Desktop folder.

I had 117 notes and didn't save them all (some where old shopping lists), and this took 30-45 mins, I guess.

Hope this helps someone! God bless.

- Liz

This aproach is pretty simple, but I think it'll work for me: anytime I need to add information or edit information in a note I have stored on my iPhone, I'll take the extra second to copy and paste the note into iCloud first. Then they're available on my computer, too. Probably best to then delete the old note for the sake of clarity.

This only takes an extra second and eventually I'll be all synched up. I have 1000+ notes, but most are probably defunct and I can always search for them on the iPhone if I really need to find something.

What a nightmare, I struggled with this issue and finally gave up and purchased a third party app that allowed me to access files on my iPhone. All this because apple has created the biggest file jail. This and all the other synch problems have driven me over the edge and I am finally switching to Android for good. Never again will I buy another iOS device. Total Apple lock-in, might as well sell your soul to Apple. No thanks.

nodenetter wrote:

What a nightmare, I struggled with this issue and finally gave up and purchased a third party app that allowed me to access files on my iPhone. All this because apple has created the biggest file jail. This and all the other synch problems have driven me over the edge and I am finally switching to Android for good. Never again will I buy another iOS device. Total Apple lock-in, might as well sell your soul to Apple. No thanks.

What other sync problems?

Anyhow, goodbye and good luck.

Cheers

Pete

Everenote and/or dropbox. They do more and they actually work.