iCloud Notes not syncing across all devices

I try to add another iCloud account to do that but is not possible to sync notes with a second iCloud account. Just the major iCloud account has the Notes option to sync.

Any news? My notes still don't work.

Not on my side. Tried every single solution on the web and no cigar.

Contacted Apple Support, they escalated the issue to Engineering and am still waiting for the solution.

Please let us know if you hear anything back. I am having this same issue and deleting the app does not work for me. It appears as though my notes are trying to sync to iCloud from my devices to no avail. I can create a bunch of new notes and they never make it up to iCloud. ****

This has been extremely annoying. I havent been able to sync my notes from my iPhone with my Mac for weeks. Wish there was a solution.

More people with the issue:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-notes-suddenly-syncing-one-way-only.2 015541/

I check if it starts to work once a week. It's still broken.

Meanwhile I recommand Bear App for iOS/Mac. It's with subscription but if you decide to buy a 1 year subscription, you will get 1 month free trial (paymant runs after trial).

And that's my deadline. If iCloud will start to work within the month I will cancel subscription and stay with iCloud. If the subscription will start and I'll pay for Bear, I will stick with it for at least a year.

I was considering goin back to evernote but it's too heavy when it comes to loading times and user interface. Too many features for simple purpose. Bear is as lighweight as Note.app and looks stunning.

Has anyone tried reinstalling from backup or updating to the latest betas to see if a software change fixes the syncing issue with iCloud?

Personally I'm on the latest betas on both my iPhone, iPad and MacOS and Im still having issues.

I installed 10.12.3 Beta (16D17a) on one of my iMacs yesterday, and that iMac is now syncing properly with iCloud (both directions)

In response to payner96, I had a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of an iMac from around the end of October (10.12.1) so booted from that image and found Notes was syncing fine with that.

Also had a phone call from the tech support person I've been speaking to and he confirmed it is an acknowledged bug and will be fixed with a patch/update for macOS and iOS.

Given it's a recognised problem, I'm not going to play around any more, I'll wait for the fixes, but having switched to using Google Keep as a result of this issue, I don't actually need either Notes or Reminders now since Google Keep gives me both.

Cheers

Simon

It might be worth having another look at the link Vol24 pointed to:

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-notes-suddenly-syncing-one-way-only.2 015541/

There's been some success there independent of the awaited update from Apple.

In particular, the most recent suggestions there (briefly, enable debug on Notes on macOS device, reset some of the settings, delete Notes app from iOS device, reinstall app on iOS, enable syncing) seem to be met with some success.

Given that Apple know it's a problem, I guess it's up to the individual whether to try the "workaround" or wait for an update if you want to keep using Notes.

From what I can guess about the workaround, it's doing some kind of "reset" on the backend that kicks it back into life (OK, I'm sure it could be put better than that !)

Personally, I've lost a bit of faith now which is a shame, but that's the way it goes.

Cheers and happy new year

Simon

After literally trying everything possible on 'device' level - I too escalated the issue to engineering. Today received feedback from Apple that this will be resolved in future updates, without clarifying any timeframe. So that's it..I guess..

I DID IT !!!!!

At least it worked for all my devises

I had the problem of “one way sync” from Icloud.com to macOS or to iOS, but not the other way around.

This solution came from what was suggested from Vol24 with a little difference and fixed macOS sync and iOS sync (both ways) tried in two different iPhones + MBP Retina + iPad pro and it fu**ing works…

Here is What I did

First fix the Mac

1. Back up all your notes !!!

2. Open terminal and enable the Debug menu with the following command: defaults write com.apple.Notes DebugModeEnabled -bool true

3. From the debug menu in notes, select:

1. Delete Data (delete from iCloud)

2. Reset iCloud Migration

4. You will Get the same screen you got when notes was first upgraded

5. Close notes and open it again

6. Create a note on iCloud and in notes… synced both ways

Then Fix iOS

1. If you check iOS, sync still broken

2. Delete the Notes app

3. Download the app again

4. Enable iCloud notes

5. Check both ways sync

Thanks Vol24 !!!

Hope it works for everyone, this thing was driving me crazy

Thanks! <3
This finally fix the Notes sync issue between my iPhone (iOS) and my Macbook Pro (macOS).
Now everything is finally fixed!
Zero to Apple Engineer team! Ten to all of us that is trying for a long time how to fix this!

Update: and it failed again, did a delete on some notes on the mac and the update has not been synced, or the new notes I added after the first initial success....guess we have to wait for apple to fix?

Excellent! Thanks for the help, notes back working again between iCloud, iPhone & mac after several weeks of failure.

Total newb question - How do you get the debug terminal to show in the notes app?