Something odd happened to my iPhone

[fivemack]

All the notes in the Notes app made after 11 May 2012 and before this morning have vanished from my phone. I can still make new notes, the old notes are still there in the Notes app on the Mac and in the Notes app on the iPad, though notes made on the phone don't seem to be syncing to the Mac.

Quitting the Notes app and restarting it doesn't help. The power switch on the phone has broken, so I can't try rebooting the phone.

Any advice?

Conclusion I got the power switch repaired (at the shop at the Milton Road / Arbury Road junction); disabling and then re-enabling synchronisation with iCloud made the notes come back. My contacts had also vanished, but again disabling and re-enabling synchronisation brought them back.

I suspect 11 May 2012 is relevant because it'll have been the day I updated the phone to iOS 5.1.2

Comments

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I'm told it's possible to reboot an iPhone even if its power switch is broken, via Assistive Touch:

"
Enable Assistive Touch in Settings | General | Accessibility | Assistive Touch
Tap the round Assistive Touch button
Tap "Device"
Tap and HOLD "Lock Screen" - after holding for approximately 5 seconds, the "slide to power off" option will appear
"

The household iPhone is not present as I type this, however, so I can't confirm. (Also not sure if it's still true for iOS 8.)

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

(then, allegedly, it is turned on again by plugging it in / charging it.)

[lnr]

Heh, that's a useful detail!

[miramon.livejournal.com]

Are you on IOS 8? Might be this problem http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/29/reset-all-settings-icloud-drive-bug/

[lnr]

I found my iPad was doing an odd thing with notes where it was storing them as emails in an imap folder called Notes on my Gmail account. When I changed sync settings for the Gmail account not to include Notes they all disappeared off the ipad but were still in my email. (From memory, so this may be a bit garbled)