Apple in September updated its iCloud terms and conditions with some minor changes, and this week it has been notifying iPhone users that they must accept the revised terms in order to continue using iCloud. Unfortunately, after accepting the new terms, some iPhone users have seen all of their notes disappear in the Notes app.
While some users have turned to social media to justifiably panic about all of their notes being gone, thankfully the issue can be fixed by following the steps below.
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap on your name at the top (aka your Apple Account settings).
- Tap on iCloud.
- Tap on Notes.
- Turn on "Sync this iPhone" (green = on). If it is already on, turn it off and on again.
- In the Notes app, wait several minutes for your notes to be restored from iCloud.
We began monitoring this issue earlier this week, but it is unclear what the underlying cause is. Apple did not respond to our request for comment.
Tag: iCloud
Top Rated Comments
Privacy. That's iPhone.
You have to completely depend on iCloud and hope that a bug doesn’t delete all your notes.
i heard that this was a simpler way to fix it.
but more concerning is apple's silence on the matter.
why the silence?
refusal to acknowledge the bug, when it is blatantly obvious to the rest of the internet?
well as big as apple is, the internet is bigger!
and not even helping people with a workaround to fix it, leaving it up to sites like macrumors to provide the workaround?
that’s very poor form on apple's part