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How to retrieve missing iPad notes after iCloud Sync

I turned on iCloud sync for notes on my iPad when I realized it wasn't on. All of my iPhone notes showed up on my iPad, but my iPad notes DISAPPEARED. They are GONE. HELP!


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iPad, iPadOS 16

Posted on Jan 13, 2023 4:37 AM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2023 7:58 AM

This happen to me 5 minutes ago and its my class notes that disappear and I have nothing to study for the coming up exams in 3 days. I have no any other backup too. Please does anyone know how to recover them? All I wanted to create a back up of my notes in iPad in my iPhone. This is just absurd.

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Sep 9, 2023 4:01 AM in response to ktlasersIE

I am very happy for you and hope that the problem can be solved for some others here.


I contacted Apple Support and to their credit, they were very patient and spent over an hour trying to figure out how to retrieve the missing notes. Unfortunately it is not possible in my case, and countless others, I suspect. The notes are just gone forever after “synching” to the cloud :-(

Mar 22, 2024 6:57 AM in response to ktlasersIE

Hello…I need help. This issue happened to me just now. And i have years of very important notes in my ipad that got overwritten by those from my phone. I have followed instructions to check on icloud but nothing is there except those from my iphone


someone please help if you know how to fix it. Badly need those notes back. I have a major event coming soon and lots of my work are stored there.


thank you so much

Mar 24, 2024 1:26 AM in response to ktlasersIE

Happened to me too and I recovered my notes on my iPad

i contacted apple support and then an agent chatted with me, we did basic troubleshooting and then she had someone call me.

i was asked to “restore setting” and while I was doing that, my apps were uploaded to the cloud. My iPad restarted after that and in setting up, that’s where we (me and the apple rep) clicked for the last back up IN MY IPAD (not the icloud).

i recovered mine like 90% and then i manually transferred the notes from my iPad to my iPhone prior pressing again (sync this iPad) before doing again “sync this iPad”


i hope this helped

Mar 25, 2024 2:43 PM in response to ktlasersIE

It happened to me too just this March 22 and I was able to restore about 95% of my notes.

I contacted apple support and they assisted me by screen sharing until we were able to restore them.


They will help you look for a back up in your iPad (not in the icloud) and they will help you restore that. Hopefully you do have back up in your iPad. Lucky for me cause my iPad was programmed to have a scheduled back up.


Reach out to them via: chatsupport.apple.com

They will initially do a basic troubleshooting and when they cannot go further due to technicalities, they will have someone call you. 


I hope you recover yours.

Sep 17, 2024 8:57 AM in response to ktlasersIE

The same thing happened to me a few moments ago. Apparently we were supposed to offload the notes app on your ipad to “save” the notes on there before syncing. The moment i synced the notes in my iphone to my ipad it just went poof like wth with no warning. This is honest so ridiculous and annoying since i had so many important things in there.😭

Oct 6, 2024 1:49 PM in response to ktlasersIE

I’m super heartbroken because I was using my iPad for my school notes and other IMPORTANT notes and now I don’t have anything. My iPad just backed up after trying what someone suggested on this thread so now I really don’t have any way to get it back from what it seems. Apple needs to fix this issue, I have exams coming up and they need to at least put a warning before completely getting rid of everyone’s notes.

How to retrieve missing iPad notes after iCloud Sync

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