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.

PANICKED iPhone users have reported that everything in their Notes app has mysteriously disappeared after accepting new iCloud terms. Apple recently put out new terms and conditions for using the

It seems when some users update and agree to the terms of the new IOS version, once they hit "agree", the notes go into the cloud. It doesn't happen for everyone who upgrades, but many have this issue. The notes "on my iPhone" is empty.

The clue is that if you’re confronted with an empty list in the Notes app, a closer inspection will show that these are in the “On My iPhone” section. That group applies only to locally stored notes that aren’t synced to iCloud. This section doesn’t appear when iCloud Sync is enabled unless some notes are already stored there.

Upon accepting new iCloud terms, some iPhone users say their notes are all gone. But fear not, there is a remedy.

Some iPhone users are reporting the sudden disappearance of content from the Notes app. Luckily for them, there seems to be a quick fix for it. According to 9to5Mac, this insidious little glitch can happen to anyone running an iPhone with any version of iOS 18 installed on it.