Thanks to a software update bug, Apple users across the world have gone into a panic over the loss of one of their most treasured digital collection of memories: their notes app. Thankfully, there is a simple solution to restore your missing notes. Phew!
There is no bond greater than the one between a girl and her notes app. In that humble app is a library of sacred texts that are essential to the essence of one’s being.
From drafts of texts to a situationship you had in 2019, to stockpiles of grocery shopping lists and passwords, or the collection of un-used Instagram captions you keep on the ready. It’s a space for everything, and as a result contains everything.
However, in a tragedy equivalent to the burning of the Library of Alexandria in 48 BC, Apple users across the world recently found that their vast collections of notes had been deleted as a result of scary software bug.
“Happened to my wife’s iPhone a couple days ago, scared her to death,” shared one impacted Redditor.
?my entire notes app is gone what pic.twitter.com/RGC6Lrt7B5
— Kazi (@Tawfiqwk) November 10, 2024
All of my notes randomly disappeared on my notes app pic.twitter.com/lTD8FwsrkC
— Lauren (@libralaur) November 7, 2024
The issue is apparently a result of a widespread bug on Apple phones using the iOS 18 software. Thankfully, this great loss of knowledge and art is not permanent, and some tech wizards online have found a quick solution that helps to restore the deleted notes for affected users.
So please, for the love of maintaining beauty and wonder in the world, send this to all your friends who may have lost their notes app and are currently crying in a corner.
Do not mourn, dear friends, help is on its way. Here is how to restore all your lost notes on the Apple Notes app.
How to restore all your lost Notes
Chin up, brave Apple Notes soldier. Your lost notes will soon be back on your trusty app, following these simple four steps.
1. Open your iCloud page on the Settings app.
2. Go to the ‘Apps Using iCloud’ section and find the Notes app.
3. Ensure that the ‘Sync this iPhone’ option is enabled.
4. Wait a moment, then reopen your beloved Notes app and find your notes restored.
And just like that, all your priceless words and musings should have returned to your Notes app! Huzzah! The darkness has passed. A new day has come, and the sun is shining out clearer than before.
Fair warning: it may take a little while for your notes to return to the app as they sync from your iCloud account. Mine took about 10 mins, on account of the gargantuan (111.5MB) Self Insert X Spider-Man fan fiction I’ve been writing since I was 15-years-old.
Additionally, this fix may not work for all Apple users at first. However, repeating step three a few times seems to be the resolve to that issue.
Thankfully, there are no reports of a permanent loss of data caused by this bug. So all your precious notes are safe, despite their momentary disappearance.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to document this horrifying experience on — you guessed it — my notes app.
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