Over the last five years or so I have encountered three significant problems with Apple Notes syncing. Today, I ran into another major problem. The short version is that I spent an hour or so reorganizing notes and cleaning others up. That is all I did: renaming a few folders, changing their position on the side bar, and cleaning up some notes and deleting ~10. Thatās it. For some inexplicable reason the changes made on my Mac would not upload to iCloud. In fact, each device showed a different number of total total notes. Not only that, but none of the folders match on any of the devices and not on iCloud. So, I decided to disconnect syncing Notes in iCloud on my iPhone to āresetā and redownload the notes to the phone. After trying and waiting for three hours, Apple Notes shows 0 notes on the phone. Iāve rebooted, restarted, and turned iCloud syncing for Note on and off. Nothing.
Iphone:
Mac:
Iām trying hard not to overreact but Iām seriously considering moving all my notes to a different note app (I hate even writing that!).
Iāve been committed to using only default apps whenever possible but when should one just give up?
Iām open to suggestions. Stick it out with Notes and erase my phone and reinstall everything, hoping this fixes the problem? Do the same on my Mac? That all feels like a ānuclearā option.
Use a different app? I use a note app almost exclusively for meeting and projects notes, from which I send follow-up tasks to a task manager.
Iām open to suggestions.
Needless to say, Iām frustrated but Iām trying to keep my cool and respond to the problem rather than over-reacting to it.
This post may be a sign of overreacting.