iPhone 13 Pro not loading Notes from iCloud

[cassyn]

I have bought a 'new' refurbished iPhone 13 Pro with iOS 16, now upgraded to 16.1.1. Logged in using my existing Apple ID.

Everything is working fine except that the Notes app will not load my 600+ stored notes from iCloud. It loads the folder names of about half the folders and has a zero (0) count next to each one. Been trying for hours with a good internet connection so I'm pretty sure they are not going to load.

I can still access all of the folders and notes on my old iPhone 6s, my MacBook and in icloud on a browser, so they definitely all still exist!

I have tried updating and restarting all devices and toggling Notes off and on in iCloud settings on the phone.

If I create a new note on the iPhone 13 Pro it doesn't sync to Notes in iCloud.

Can anyone help explain what is going on here and how I can get Notes syncing on the new iPhone 13 Pro?

 

[cassyn]

Ok so I solved my own problem by changing the auto-lock to 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds. It seems that the notes app needed more continuous o-time in order to load notes form iCloud. Seems a bit strange that it couldn't load them in the background, but very glad that it worked out.

 

[NO🇳🇴]

And remember that most updating happens while charging and locked connected to wifi.

 

[Scruff1026]

Any idea why notes from Macbook will no update on iPad or iPhone? Ipad and iPhone seem to be working together but not with Macbook. Everything look to be in check like it should be. Was working fine yesterday.

 

[now i see it]

Your issue probably has resolved itself- and that’s because sometimes syncing to iCloud can take a long time.