User level: Level 1 (4 points)I accidentally synced my notes from iphone to ipad—now all of my ipad notes are gone. Ipad notes are very important to me. How do I get it back?
Posted on Sep 26, 2026 8:26 PM
User level: Level 10 (334,506 points)Sep 27, 2026 1:56 AM in response to rheana241
If the missing Notes were previously visible on both devices - and the now missing notes had been manually deleted on either the iPad or iPhone - synchronising your Notes between devices will have synchronised the deletion.
If you are lucky, you might be able to recover the deleted Notes from iCloud:
User level: Level 9 (55,707 points)Sep 26, 2026 8:45 PM in response to rheana241
If you used iCloud to sync Notes to both devices, you should have gotten a single combined set of Notes which includes all of the Notes from your iPhone and all of the Notes from your iPad.
If you wanted to separate them, you'd need to turn off iCloud Notes synchronization on the iPad (without deleting any Notes), then manually go through and delete the iPad's copies of Notes that came from the iPhone. That would presumably leave you with Notes that came from the iPad.
User level: Level 9 (55,707 points)Sep 26, 2026 11:08 PM in response to rheana241
Were you synchronizing any Notes through an email account?
If you were, and you removed that email account from your Internet Accounts settings (or turned off the Notes switch for that account), the Notes associated with that account would have disappeared from your iPad.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Sep 26, 2026 8:50 PM in response to Servant of Cats
I synced Iphone notes to my Ipad, but only my Iphone notes appeared there, my Ipad notes are now gone.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Sep 26, 2026 8:51 PM in response to Servant of Cats
I synced Iphone notes to my Ipad, but only my Iphone notes appeared there, my Ipad notes are now gone.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Sep 26, 2026 11:23 PM in response to Servant of Cats
No, there was not an email account involved.
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Sep 26, 2026 11:25 PM in response to rheana241
I only tapped the "Sync this Ipad" button on Notes settings
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256365708