notes are gone after accepting new icloud terms and conditions

CompactSwing you’re actually a lifesaver. went to my notes app to put down a draft for a bug report on discord and found out all of my notes were gone; figured it was because of the icloud agreement. i had several medication logs, years of writing, notes for video game builds, and dream logs — all stuff i don’t want to lose. thank you. i seriously thought i lost all of it.

Happened to me too. I didn’t have iCloud storage space synched for over a year either so I was worried.

I went to settings > iCloud > apps using iCloud Show All > Notes > Manage Storage

And it resolved itself. I went back into the notes app and they started loading.

The exact thing has happened to me. Agreed to the terms last night. This morning I’ve gone into notes to find important information I keep for work and it’s all gone, apart from notes I made in 2016? I have course work notes in there and tax return notes all all kinds of log in details etc.

Hi,

Had this too and found a simple fix….

1) Go to Settings and search for iCloud

2) Select iCloud Apple ID (at the top of the list)

3) Under ‘Apps using iCloud’ select Show All

4) Select Notes

5) Turn off ‘Sync this Phone’ and wait for a few seconds

6) Turn ‘Sync this Phone’ back on

This should kick the notes app back into life to use iCloud again.

Hope this works for you and helps a few others along the way 😊

That’s what I did as it’s only the iCloud notes that it says will be deleted (which are already missing!)

The notes should still be stored in your iCloud so when you switch it back on the Notes App sorts itself out and downloads the missing notes again.

This worked for me and my partner so I hope it works for you 👍

Brilliant. Thank you for the information. I had the same problem after accepting new T & C’s.

1 - Deleted the Note App (as mine were still in the iCloud).

2 - Re installed the note app.

All ‘lost’ notes reappeared in less than 2 minutes !

Mine also vanished. So I navigated to iCloud settings on my phone. Checked that Notes are turned on for syncing. Toggled the switch to turn it off. It asks if you want to delete Notes from iCloud, and I just chose no. That seemed to somehow push the syncing and my notes are back. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you so much for this, it worked and I have all my notes back - phew!

Very helpful. Whew! My notes are back

Same here! They do appear in my macbook so at least I know they are not gone forever, but I got scared at first because they don’t appear in my iphone (se 2020, iOS 16.smth). Hope they fix it soon.

Omg I was about to be in the fetal position crying because all of my notes were gone. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you that worked Stumble! 🥰

This worked for me. It restored Notes back. Thanks for sharing!

I get the screen that says it will delete all notes from the phone. Do we go forward with that?

go to settings – notes – default account – on my iPhone, and they will come back

go to settings – notes – default account – on my iPhone, and they will come back