{"id":27236,"date":"2019-11-07T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27236"},"modified":"2019-11-09T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T20:34:37","slug":"apple-notes-and-icloud-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/apple-notes-and-icloud-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Notes and iCloud Syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@WarnerCrocker\/apple-notes-and-icloud-syncing-breaking-a-good-thing-badly-9c4690166f70\">Warner Crocker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@WarnerCrocker\/apple-notes-and-icloud-syncing-breaking-a-good-thing-badly-9c4690166f70\">\n<p>Recently, (and I sadly can&rsquo;t pin this on recent iOS or Mac OS system updates because I just wasn&rsquo;t paying close enough attention), I&rsquo;ll create a note on one device and it may indeed show up on all three, or perhaps two, and sometimes it won&rsquo;t sync off of the device it was created on until some random time down the road.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I had spent a morning creating a number of notes on the MacBook in preparation for a production meeting. I walked to theatre, opened up the iPad Pro and none of those notes appeared. I checked the iPhone and some of those notes appeared.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At the end of that testing period I ended up with four different note counts on three devices and the web.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Further, it appeared that some of the notes, not all, I created that morning were gone from all devices and the web.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And it happened again after the Apple Senior Advisor reset his iCloud database.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/catalina-vista\/\">Catalina Vista<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15\/\">Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-notes-and-icloud-syncing-update-2019-11-09\">Update (2019-11-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivan_pavlov\/status\/1192536480373039105\">Ivan Pavlov<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivan_pavlov\/status\/1192536480373039105\">\n<p>I can only confirm that since iOS 13 Notes syncing has become much less reliable. It is a pity since it was so good before. Apple is aware of that, my bug report FB7267359 has more than 10 similar reports with no visible actions since September.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_galvagno\/status\/1192584101162868736\">Michele Galvagno<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_galvagno\/status\/1192584101162868736\">\n<p>Wow! Thank you for this!<\/p>\n<p>At least I&rsquo;m not alone in this!<\/p>\n<p>How are you (people affected) facing this?<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve not had my sync for one month now... that&rsquo;s a lot!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronEhrlich\/status\/1192695966458998785\">Cameron Ehrlich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CameronEhrlich\/status\/1192695966458998785\">\n<p>This has been driving me nuts!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Crocker: Recently, (and I sadly can&rsquo;t pin this on recent iOS or Mac OS system updates because I just wasn&rsquo;t paying close enough attention), I&rsquo;ll create a note on one device and it may indeed show up on all three, or perhaps two, and sometimes it won&rsquo;t sync off of the device it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"f3f85528-9c94-4f6a-a535-c55a330d849c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-09T20:34:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8_hVKJyUT2qlNcVaMw2EnA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1016,16,31,1667,30,1666,700,269],"class_list":["post-27236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applecare","tag-datacide","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-notes","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27257,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions\/27257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}