When iPhone users accepted new iCloud terms, some were shocked to see all their Notes disappear from the app. Here's how to get them back.

I temporarily lost all of the content in my Notes app on my Mac, so I know that rush of panic that follows a discovery like this. Apparently, there’s one such bug on the iPhone right now. Some people found the notes in the Notes app disappearing after ...

If you saw your files vanish, you're in luck. There are steps to fix the issue, and it won't take a long, angry call to Tech Support. On your iPhone, open your Settings app. Tap your Apple Account settings (the top subsection where your name and profile picture are). Scroll down and Tap on iCloud.

This happened to me on my phone running iOS 18.2. Based on the number of reports on social media from aggrieved users worried that all their notes are now gone forever, this is a relatively widespread bug that impacts iPhones running any iOS 18 version.