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abbeyrosepp

Level 1 (4 points)

How do I recover missing notes on Mac after syncing to iCloud?

my notes app on my mcbook had some notes that werent synced to my iphone, i did recently sync my mac notes to my icloud notes on iphone but now my notes that were on my mac are missing

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Original Title: missing notes on mac

Posted on Sep 18, 2026 1:01 PM

1 reply

sberman

Level 10 (280,982 points)

Sep 18, 2026 2:48 PM in response to abbeyrosepp

It sounds like the missing notes were just stored locally on your Mac. In that case, they can be recovered from your Time Machine backups. (You do use Time Machine, right?)

Recover files using Time Machine and Spotlight on Mac - Apple Support

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256360007