If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. As someone who uses the Notes app across all my Apple devices, I can imagine how scary it might be to suddenly lose access to all of my notes.

The iPhone’s native note-taking app has leveled up with live audio transcriptions, calculations, and organizational features.

Apple in September updated its iCloud terms and conditions with some minor changes, and this week it has been notifying iPhone users that they

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.