Are you the one who uses the note app frequently to note down several important tasks. What you will do if the notes which you saved on your iPhone gets disappeared from your iPhone. Right now are you going through this situation and need a instant solution to recover back those disappeared notes on your iPhone and that’s the reason you are reading this article?
If your answer is yes, then don’t worry, this is a very common issue which occurs on iPhone and you can easily fix it by following some simple steps.
But before we proceed with the solution, lets try to understand in which cases does the iPhone Notes gets disappeared.
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Why All My iPhone Notes are Gone
Accidental Deletion: You or any one who may has accessed your iPhone might have accidentally deleted the Notes.
Sync Error: iPhone Notes are stored and synced on iCloud Storage. If incase if something goes wrong with sync then your iPhone Notes could get disappear.
Software Updates: Sometimes due to recent software update which you performed on your iPhone could be a culprit of notes getting deleted from your iPhone.
iCloud Storage: If your iCloud Storage is full or exhausted then also the notes could get disappeared from your notes app.
Accepting iCloud Terms and Conditions: Several users have recently reported that after accepting the new iCloud terms and conditions their Notes count is showing as zero.
So, there can be many reasons why iPhone notes are missing, and the reason may be different for every iPhone. There may be different solutions or fixes for each reason, so if one solution doesn’t work, keep trying other solutions until you get your notes back on your iPhone.
FIX iPhone Notes Disappeared
There are many solutions to get back notes that have disappeared from your iPhone. But depending on the problem you are facing on your iPhone, any one of the solutions given below may help you get back your notes. So follow them carefully, and if one doesn’t work, try the next one.
Restart iPhone
This is one of the basic step which needs to be followed before you move on to the advance one. A quick restart of iPhone could fix the issue on your phone and may bring back the disappeared iPhone Notes.
Notes iCloud Sync
A quick Notes iCloud Sync ON/ OFF could bring back the notes on your iPhone. To perform this
Open Settings
Scroll down and tap on iCloud
From iCloud page tap on the Notes displayed under Saved to iCloud, if Notes not appearing then tap on See All and select Notes
If under Notes Sync this iPhone is turned off then toggle to turn on and if its it in turned on state then turn it off and after few minutes turn it on
Wait for the resync to happen, this could take several minutes depending upon the number of notes which you have.
This should possibly bring back the disappeared notes on your iPhone.
Offloading App
Most of the time offloading the Note app helps to bring back the Notes on iPhone. To do so follow the steps.
Open Settings
Tap on General
Tap on iPhone Storage
Scroll down and locate the Notes app and tap on it
From the available option under Notes tap on the Offload App, a prompt will appear Offloading “Notes” will delete the app but keep its documents and data.
Tap on the Offload App to proceed and the Notes app will successfully gets offloaded from your iPhone
On the iPhone Storage Notes you will get Reinstall App option, you may tap on the Reinstall App button to install the Notes app or you may open the app store and search for Notes app and install the app
Once the Notes app is installed, launch it and possibly your Notes will start appearing which had gone disappeared.
Recently Deleted
If you had accidentally deleted the notes then you can locate the deleted notes in the recently deleted folder.
To restore the deleted notes, open the Notes app
Open the Recently Deleted folder, if you are unable to see the Recently Deleted folder then it means there isn’t any notes deleted on your iPhone.
If you are able to see recently deleted folder then beside it the number of notes which are deleted will also be mentioned
From the Recently deleted folder tap on the edit button appearing at the top right corner
Select the notes which you wish to recover and tap on the move button
Select the folder where you wish to retrieve the notes and the notes will successfully get moved to the location you selected
Now you may open the folder in which you have moved the notes to access it.
Bring Back Notes On My iPhone
If the notes stored on your iPhone Storage has disappeared or the On My iPhone folder has been disappeared then you may follow the below steps.
Open Settings
Scroll down and tap on Apps
Under Apps page scroll down and tap on Notes
Scroll down the Notes page until you find “On My iPhone” Account
If the “On My iPhone” Account toggle button is turned off then enable it by tapping on the toggle button
Once you enable the “On My iPhone” Account, in the notes app “On My iPhone” Account folder will be visible
Blank Notes Screen after agreeing to the updated iCloud Terms and Conditions
This issue may occur after agreeing to the updated iCloud terms and conditions. It is not limited to specific iOS versions like 18.0 or 18.1. Users running older versions, such as iOS 17.7.1, have also reported encountering a blank Notes screen.
Make sure your iPhone is connected to the internet via WiFi or cellular data.
Go to Settings > Notes.
If you usually sync your Notes across Apple devices using iCloud, check that iCloud is selected as the default storage location.
If iCloud is not selected, tap on it to set it as the default location for your Notes.
After selecting iCloud as the default location, allow a few seconds for synchronization. The filenames of your iCloud Notes and locally stored Notes should start reappearing in the Notes app.
Within a few minutes, both iCloud and local Notes lists should be fully restored, and you should be able to see all your saved Note filenames again.
This is how you can easily bring back the Notes Disappeared on iPhone.
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