notes are gone after accepting new icloud terms and conditions

My notes are back, but none of the methods being shared here were the reason. I tried a lot of these and none worked for me. It appeared that I didn’t have the most recent update, so I updated it and my notes came back after my phone restarted itself. It sounds like a relatively easy solution, but there’s still multiple things I’m confused.

At one point, the notes in my phone and the notes in my iPad were the same. Making a note on one device would show up on the other as well. At some point it stopped doing this. The notes that showed up on both devices while they were still somehow synced were still there, but new notes on one device would no longer show up on the other one. And that’s how it remained for a long time up until this terms & conditions mess. After accepting it, all the notes

were gone off my phone, as well all know, but for some reason all the notes on my phone were now suddenly on my iPad, replacing the ones I had on there. And to complicate matters I found that even when trying to make a new note during the duration of time my notes were gone, the notes would save unless you messed with the settings.

they would just disappear right after you backed out of them. Which I’m sure most people hear tried at least once.

This ordeal is very confusing and they should be dealing with the problem.

I HAVE AN IPHONE 13 PRO MAX AND I DONT HAVE AN 'APPS USING ICLOUD' OPTION. THE TSYNC IS ON ALREADY BUT ALL MY INFORMATION IS GONE STILL. I LOGGED INTO THE ICLOUD AND MY NOTES ARE THERE BUT NOTE DO NOT APPEAR ON MY IPHONE,

I hit cancel aswell. Tried other things and two of my notes are still affected i.e. partially vanished. So by reading this, I am guessing the updated version of these two notes were stored locally. I don’t know why. After hitting the stupid new T&C’s everything vanished twice, the third time it pulled all my notes even from previous devices and notes that were recently created even after the two that were impacted. Just before I pressed that, I edited those two notes. My mobile was running low on storage at the time that it undone the changes I made. But still bizzare how everything else pulled up and no later version of my two notes came. They better fix this! Please keep me posted. I hope you get yours back too… I understand your frustration. It was a nightmare!

After the updated most of my notes are gone. What's left are only some parts of notes, and now they are divided by year. I had some notes that i have added to for over 5 years and now some parts are missing and the remainder are divide into separate notes by year.

I tried going to notes on icloud and turning off then back on the sync notes with this device, then waited...nothing. I turned the device off then back on, but that didn't work. If anyone has. solution for how to I may recover my notes I would be "eternally" grateful.

Mine are gone. I’ve tried the tips here and still gone. I had left a marriage where I was gaslit and would keep journals of different happenings soon after the events so I could go back and see I’m not crazy. I’d write or take photos and store them in my notes. All of it gone. Some cute sayings my kids would say, or poems I’d write and share with no one. It was basically my journal and loved being able to go back and see how far we’ve come… all of it gone. 😭

Update! I worked on this last night and it didn’t work. Mentally prepared myself they would never come back… checked this morning and they’re all back! Give “if I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.” Vibes. 😂

Hello, i also have the same issue. My payment for icloud backup was late and i didn’t realized it so i took notes as usual. After i had paid my icloud backup and followed all the helpful suggestions here, my “icloud backup notes” can be restored. But the notes that I had been taken before I paid the icloud couldn’t be found anywhere 😭. Does anybody know how to restore this kind of notes? Thank you

Same here, I've posted on another thread. I've tried everything ( I believe ). I believe my notes' were linked to one of like my 6 email address's, but, the notes are all turned on' for these...Had really important notes I relied on. Anyone have luck besides what Apple's advice was to do, which didn't work for me. ? Thx.

Same thing happened to me but only after the latest iPhone update 26 November 2024. STRANGELY - Notes still worked perfectly on my iMac. So it's obvious that the iPhone update was the culprit. Heads should roll.

I had lost all mine and spent 2 days trying to fix it. In the end I had to go into iCloud and request my data to be transferred. I’ll try and post the details I got to follow. All back now !!

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.

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

No. Just go back to notes and they should be back.

thanks very much, it fixed it