Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Hello.
My client uses Notes in his iPhone 4S' iOS5. How come iTunes doesn't synchronize them to his 13.3" MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.3 and all updates? We didn't see any settings for Notes in iTunes. Mac OS X's Notes seem to want accounts? Why? We just want to do it locally.
Thank you in advance. 🙂
iPhone 4S, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 13.3" MacBook Pro (9,2/MD102ll/A)
I have both my iPod (Touch 4G) with iOS 6 and MacBook with 10.8.latest and I set up iCloud on both, and my contacts and calendar events appear to synch via iCloud but for some reason Notes does not.
I rarely use reminders in the iPod but I have some there, and I just checked on my Mac and all the iPod (iCloud) reminders are in reminders on my Mac, but still no iPod notes on the Mac.
I just re-checked iCloud and it shows Contacts, Calendar & Reminders and Notes checked (along with Find My Mac) but no iPod Notes, and the one note I have on the MacBook does show in my iPod Notes. I just checked it. I changed the content of that one note on the Mac and it changed on the iPod. I changed that note on the iPod and it was really cool to see it change on the Mac, but where are the rest of my iPod notes?
Oh semi-happy joy. I found out what's going on. According to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4191?viewlocale=en_US, my iPod iOS Settings> Notes storage was "on my iPod", instead of iCloud. Once I switched it to iCloud, a new note showed up on both.
Now I have to figure out how to get the rest of the iPod notes from local to iCloud, as the article (above) says I have to "copy or transfer them to iCloud or IMAP to sync with your other devices", but it gives no directions for that or a link to the directions or what to search for to find that (so only the applicable results show up).
I thought I'd lost my notes, too. I also have an iPad mini, and noticed the notes app icon and clicked on it. What was more obvious on the iPad was that there are different accounts; in other words, it had different sets of notes saved under different email accounts.My missing notes were saved under my icloud account, although I didn't consciously ever put the notes under any separate account. They were visible when I clicked "All Notes," too. It turns out that the phone had a different account set as the default. I changed the default on the iPhone, and there they were. I took screen shots so the notes are saved in my photos, too. This was a lot easier than checking through a lot of backups. I hope that helps. I will post this on a couple of threads I see in Apple communities. I see it's a pretty common problem.
Sync Notes?
