Comments on: iPhone Notes Application

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:23:08 +0000

I keep losing recently added “notes” on my iphone4 when I sync my phone with itunes (on my iMac). It keeps reverting back to my notes from 3 months ago. I don’t even know where these notes are on my computer, nor do I know where to change the setting to allow the changes I make on my phone take precedence.
Any help would be greatly appreciated…Thanks!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:57:09 +0000

Hard to say what might be happening. But keep in mind that Notes are either part of your email account (iCloud, MobileMe, Gmail) or things synced to your Mac (“on my Mac”). So figure out what these notes are and then track them down that way. Perhaps they are with one of your email accounts and you’ve got an email settings to archive new messages and it is doing that to your notes.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:58:01 +0000

Just recently, text from some of my Notes has disappeared either when I reopen them to add to them or once, while I was entering info. I know the text is there because I can email it, but cannot see or edit it on my iPod. Even using the magnifying glass, I cannot see it (as someone who posted a question earlier on your page could.) Do you know why it might be happening to some notes and not others and do you have any suggestions for resolving it? Thanks!!

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:31:55 +0000

I opened my Notes app and found that all my information was gone – it said No Notes! Don’t know when this happened since I don’t use it that often, but what I had been collecting over the last few years is gone. Have you heard of this problem? If so, is there a way to find the data? I stopped by the Apple store and they suggested that the Notes app would have sent me emails regularly, but I can not seem to find that information anywhere in my email inbox. Thanks.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:32:39 +0000

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:26:34 +0000

You should really look into using a more sophisticated Notes app if you are going to be using it that heavily. Try Evernote.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:03:28 +0000

I have the old iPhone 3 (I think that’s what it’s called) and I had 1200 (twelve hundred) notes and I found this was too many for the phone to handle. I noticed I could only scroll down a very short way before it slipped out of notes and returned to the home screen. Soon after, I guess I had added a few more notes, I could not reenter notes at all, it would open a blank note and then slip out altogether. I tried turning it on and off but no remedy.I was thrown into panic for a bit but thought to iPhone search under a word I might have had in notes, and this found a particular note and opened it. I was then able to go forward and backward. I deleted about 200 notes yet wasn’t able to reenter notes from the home screen. A few days later however I could.
I heard that Apple Cloud might be able to transfer notes, but I also heard this contradicted. So I am now patiently manually transferring 1200 notes!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:42:00 +0000

Notes usually come attached to an email account. I don’t know if that is the case with you. But, for instance, a Gmail account can include messages, notes, events, etc. So check in your Mail settings to see what accounts you have and make sure notes are turned on.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:28:12 +0000

It’s the Notes app that came with the iPhone. I’m a newbie to iStuff. I don’t understand what “subscribed to that account” means.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:17:01 +0000

Perhaps you are simply not subscribed to that account anymore? What type of account was it?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:11:48 +0000

My Notes sent important information to the trash can on its own! I had been using the Notes app a lot and had about 20 pages on my iPhone 4. I was adding a new page and all of my other pages went to the trash can at once. I’ve searched, but I cannot find a way to bring them back. I had all of my passwords, safe combinations, propietary info. etc. in the Notes app. I really need this stuff. It will take me days to reconstruct this data. Please help.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:49:04 +0000

Calendars do this too. But it is important to distinguish between calendars that only update when you sync and calendars that update through “the cloud.” A cloud-based calendar will update over the network, without syncing. Examples are Google calendars and iCloud calendars.

By: Heather stevens

Heather stevens — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:40:46 +0000

I love Notes. Having just bought an iPad I have discovered notes automatically update to my iPhone. This is great meaning any notes I make or lists are already on my phone when I take it out in the morning without the hassle of syncing to a main computer. Wish there was a calendar that did this!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:56:48 +0000

Ok! Thanks a lot for your help!!!!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:35:53 +0000

If it is the same account, then yes. Notes are an element of email accounts, usually.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:58:50 +0000

Maybe because the email account of our work? We both have it in our iphones.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:34:18 +0000

Impossible to say without being there to analyze it. Something, some account, must be shared or have crossed over at some point.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:21:58 +0000

I have the Iphone 4G and in the utilities I have notes from my friend’s Iphone. We don’t share any computer, any account on Itunes or anything. The only thing is that we work in the same place. We have there wireless internet. I haven’t even see her in over a month and I have notes from her from 2 days ago. How is this possible? Thanks!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:44:23 +0000

Not that I know of. Probably best to use a more sophisticated note-taking app if you need something like that. Plenty of those.

By: John

John — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:50:46 +0000

Hi Gary
Is there a way I can hylight words in Notes?

By: Frank Dimino

Frank Dimino — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:24:09 +0000

3rd party note apps will not sync with outlook. Any other ideas?

By: Merrill

Merrill — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:44:23 +0000

I’m having the same problem now. Did you ever solve yours?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:11:33 +0000

Go through the account/Mail settings on both phones. Most likely you are creating notes under an account (MobileMe, perhaps) and that account is also set to sync with the other iPhone.

By: Sharon Dean

Sharon Dean — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:03:17 +0000

Why are my notes on my iphone4 syncing with my husband’s phone? He thought that I had been in his phone and posted the note myself. How can I stop this from happening?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:40:57 +0000

So you didn’t upgrade to the new iPhone 4 by restoring from the backup of your old one? If you didn’t do that, then it will be hard to get those notes. I would just email them from the Notes app on the old iPhone.

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:24:12 +0000

I just bought a new iPhone 4. I just realized all my notes are on my old phone. Now that that phone is no longer “active”, can I sync this phone to my laptop to save all my notes?

By: John

John — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:00:34 +0000

Notes app is great, and it is syncing well with outlook. However, need to sort alphabetically and need to pword protect. Is there an app that can do all of this, while taking all my current notes and still syncing?

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:01:43 +0000

The lines and words in all my notes disappeared. When I go to start a new one same thing lines and words start to disappear. I have an iPhone 4. Thanks.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:16:33 +0000

Notes can be part of email accounts like MobileMe and Gmail. IMAP accounts, basically. When you create a new note using one of these accounts, then they appear in your “Inbox” as Notes. They aren’t really emails at all, just notes. Try creating a note under a different account (look for the Accounts button at the top). I can create “From My Mac” notes that aren’t synced to my email account.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:45:40 +0000

When I write a note and hit done it immediately emails the note to my email address and deletes the note. Amy suggestions??

Thank you,