Why are my notes messed up after iOS9 update?

You are not addressing Apple here. This is a user to user support forum. So all of the "Apple, please" and the "what the flip" are not getting to whom you wished them to get to. Feedback to Apple goes here. http://www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate subject area. I don't have any notes currently, so I cannot say if mine acted the same way as yours did. Although I haven't updated my iPad Mini yet, getting ready to, so I guess I can create a note similar to yours and see what happens.

I can understand frustration, but if you know it wasn't going to Apple, why did you write it that way?

I upgraded my iPad Mini with iOS 9. I decided not to update Notes at first to see what that would do. I had typed in the same list you did. There was no change. I went into the Note app to the area to upgrade it to the latest version, and then checked, no change. I've powered the device off and back on again, after force closing Notes, no change. Not sure what might have happened with yours, but I'm sorry (in a way) to report that mine did not react the same way that yours did. And unfortunately, I cannot think of a reason it would have done it as well.

I have the same exact problem with line breaks on my iPad Mini 2. Oddly, some notes are not affected, but most are. It is definitely related to the new Notes app. When I later upgraded my iPhone 5 to iOS 9 I intentionally did not update to the new Notes app and the formatting on the iPhone is fine.

One workaround I'm doing is to email the notes directly to myself from my iPhone with the correct line breaks. I copy-paste the email text into the new Notes app on the Mini. It's certainly not an acceptable workaround, but it is better than manually inserting line breaks.

I hope someone will come up with a better solution.

OP, backup your Outlook data before syncing with your iOS devices. FYI, I usually sync my iOS devices with iTunes for Windows and sync Notes to MS Outlook. After I synced my Mini with the new Notes app to Outlook, it messed up my Outlook data. I now have duplicate notes: the original note and a duplicate without line breaks. What a nightmare!

I suspect that there is an incompatibility with the new Notes file format and MS Outlook.

FYI, my iPad Mini is the first one. I also use Outlook on my computer and my notes are synced. I upgraded my 5s to the new Notes and it did not affect any of them I tested. It did not affect my iPad, but then my original Mini gets the upgrade to Notes, but not the ability to draw. Since I sync with Outlook on my Windows computer, that affects your contention that it is Outlook incompatibility.

In iTunes, do you still have this option for your devices?:

This option is gone from my iOS 9 devices.

If your Outlook notes data looks OK, I recommend backing up your notes *.pst file as a precaution. I wish I had backed up my data.

I still see that in my iTunes. As far as Outlook, I always auto archive Outlook, and my Outlook.pst file and the archive file are part of my daily computer backup as well.

Do you still have that option for all of your iOS 9 devices? What is your version of Outlook? Mine is 2013.

Here's a related discussion of the issue some of us are experiencing:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7223922

I'm still on Outlook 2010. And I am still using Windows 7, I see many of the posters there are using Windows 10. One other thing I noticed with one of the posters was they referenced iCloud Notes. I do not use iCloud, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Thanks for your help. I am still on Windows 7 too. I do not use iCloud notes either. My iTunes version is 12.3.0.44.

This is what iTunes looks like my iPhone 5 with iOS 9 with the new notes app not upgraded yet:

As you can see, there is an option to sync calendars with Outlook, but not notes. So strange.

I know it was there last night when I looked, but I'm not in a position to look right now. I'll check back later, but I know it was there as I was searching something last night about notes for someone else, regarding the iPad and the new sketch function.

I've been trying to resolve this same issue on my iPad AIR and IPhone 6 wirh Apple since 10 am EST this morning. I've restores the iPad from the device itself once and once from iTunes and the iPhone from the devise itself once. I'm currently waiting for them both to be fully restored from my iCloud backup, however, the rep who's been helping me contacted tier two who indicated that I should try to

1. Log out of iCloud from my devices simultaneously

2 Answer yes when it asks if I want to delete the information on my phone after signing out of iCloud

3. Sign in to iCloud again

4. Answer yes when it asks if I want to merge the information.

Let me know if those steps work!

I just got back in and was able to connect both my iPad Mini and the iPhone 5s and I discovered as of today, the ability to sync Notes in iTunes and Outlook has disappeared. Funny thing was I had updated iTunes before I updated the two devices. I'm not sure what it was. I didn't update the Notes application on the iPad at first, maybe that was what it was, but once I updated it and synced both devices it must have changed. Guess I'm going to have to figure something else out. It would be interesting to know why that was changed. Time to write some feedback to Apple on the feedback page.