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Lost of notes from agreeing to apple icloud terms of service and conditions

right at first, i agreed to apple's icloud's new terms of service and conditions, and it deleted my notes that weren't backed up from icloud. i am missing 4 months worth of notes because of this. i dont know why agreeing to their terms of service reset all my notes and deleted a whole chuck of my notes. im currently sobbing bc i lost so many of my important notes please help. how do i retrieve back my notes?? ive tried turning on "on my iphone" in notes setting, nothing reappeared

iPhone 11, iOS 17

Posted on Nov 5, 2024 2:31 AM

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Posted on Nov 5, 2024 2:12 PM

Mine did the same. I can see them when logging into iCloud account online but they don’t show up on the notes app even though it says in settings that my notes are synced with iCloud. The new terms and conditions have messed something up

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Nov 6, 2024 12:05 AM in response to qqilinz

Hi all, I can’t believe that having agreed to iCloud’s new terms and conditions that all my notes disappeared.

Everything of importance is on there. I keep weekly records of my business on there, too. It said I had to agree to iCloud terms and conditions to continue using iCloud. Someone has said to update to iOS 17.7.1 but I’m on that already. There is an option to update to iOS 18 but I daren’t do anything at the moment. I have just seen that some of my notes are back and I haven’t done anything. Maybe if I log out of my Apple account and back in again it might help but like I’ve said I daren’t do anything at the moment.

Sorry for rambling but this is very distressing, as it is for many others by the looks of things. Will let you know if they all come back.

Nov 6, 2024 12:27 AM in response to qqilinz

They’ve all come back, one by one. Never been so happy in my life! I had emailed a few very important notes to myself just incase something happened to them. Will do a load more now. All I did was turn my iPad off an on again.

They’re coming back on my iPhone now. Happy Days. Not happy with Apple for giving us all such a scare.

Nov 6, 2024 9:35 AM in response to qqilinz

Holy cow! I just agreed to the terms of service on my iPhone, and the notes vanished like what happened yesterday on the iPad! I assume they will reappear on the iPhone like they did last night. I didn’t need to mess with any settings, just crashed for a few hours then opened the Notes app. They streamed back in order of year.


Lost of notes from agreeing to apple icloud terms of service and conditions

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