apple notes how store only in icloud and not locally on ios

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apple notes how store only in icloud and not locally on ios

Storage space on iPhone and iPad growing exponentially. Migrated Notes from Evernote and have been adding many new notes daily since last September. I am afraid to lose my 16,932 notes if I do the wrong thing on the IOS devices. I still want to be able to view notes that are in iCloud and the notes folder structure while using IOS devices. I wanted to verify that the following advice would work: [ Go to Settings > Apps > Notes > Notes Accounts > iCloud > Sync, and turn off sync to iCloud ]

Thanks, Ken

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Jan 22, 2025 10:11 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 22, 2025 10:45 AM in response to MrBriarPatch

If you turn off iCloud syncing, future notes that you make on your iPhone and iPad will not be synced. You will not see notes you made on your iPad on your iPhone and vice versa. You will not be able to access them from iCloud.

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Jan 22, 2025 11:03 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Phew, glad I asked. Thanks. Wish Apple Notes worked like Evernote and stored locally only the folders you designated and still had access to all Evernote Folders & notes. Really like Apple Notes but wish I had not moved from Evernote last September; still have all my 10+ years of Evernote available in Evernote Free but finding all my additions to Apple Notes for the last 5 months and copying to Evernote is a huge task. Evernote is EXPENSIVE. Note to future self; leave all Evernote notes that you don't need immediately on Evernote [ you can access them in Evernote Free but can only add one note a month ] and start fresh with Apple notes. Looks like ~17K notes is no problem for Evernote but a big issue for Apple Notes.

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