weird iCloud Notes issue

[ignatius345]

I just recently set up a new M1 MacBook Air by using Migration Assistant to bring in my stuff from a Time Machine backup of my old MacBook Air. Everything seemed to come through OK, but when I open up Notes, I'm not seeing any of my iCloud-synced notes. Everything else in iCloud seems to be syncing just fine.

But in Notes I only see the On My Mac category, and weirdly when I open Preferences in Notes there's no option to enable iCloud, just "On My Mac". (And yes, I do have Notes sync set up in iCloud in System Preferences > Accounts.) I've tried toggling it off and on several times, to no effect:



And here's the really weird part. When, under "On My Mac" I try to create a new note, when it appears it immediately fills in with an existing note that I know is in iCloud -- I know this because iCloud Notes are working on my iPhone and my other Mac so I can see all my notes there. They're pretty old ones, too, from 2014 or so. Every time I hit ⌘N to make a new note, the text of another old iCloud-based note appears in a new note that lives in the On My Mac section.

What I've tried:

1. Toggling the Notes checkbox in iCloud Preferences on and off
2. Restarting the machine
3. Creating new notes with the hope that it'll somehow shake something loose

I haven't yet fully signed out and back in to iCloud on the machine yet because it's always a PITA to do this and I'm hoping someone will have come across this issue and have some other solution before I sign out and back in again...

thanks

 

[ZoranP]

I have the same issue on my iMac and MacBook Pro 2020 (not m1) just won't sync with iCloud. Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[appltech]

Hi! You can always check the system status to see if icloud is up and running. I'd also suggest logging into icloud.com and see if your notes are actually on the server. If they are - you can sign out and back in to troubleshoot the problem