iOS app stopped syncing with desktop and web on October 19, 2026
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I’ve found a temporary workaround: log into the web version on your phone browser, then add the link to the site to your phone homescreen as a shortcut. It’s not as clean or efficient as the app, but at least you can access your notes on the go until the app issue is resolved!
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It doesn’t solve the issue, but even on mobile, the web browser still works. And let’s hope the team fixes the bug soon.
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Will Simplenote PLEASE RESPOND!! Many of us DEPEND on Simplenote & now it suddenly doesn’t work in iOS. PLEASE JUST TELL US… we know it is no longer supported but is it now COMPLETELY DOWN? ***JUST TELL US SO WE CAN MOVE ON**** This was the GREATEST NOTES APP I EVER FOUND… I offered to pay for it & donated back when you accepted such… WHAT A SHAME. *** JUST TELL US WHETHER OR NOT iOS app will work again or NOT! *****PLEASE*****
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Is there any precedent to suggest that they will fix the issue? I haven’t had any personal issues with the application for the years I have been using it.
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There seems to be a few notes about they reducing the support gradually, on Reddit. It also may be connected with apple’s new iOS.
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I have the same problem. :-(
thanks for all of your reactions so I know I’m not alone.
i’m still using ios26. Is there an issue with the new ios27?? -
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As was suggested above, the web versions seem to synchronize among different devices. It’s the app that doesn’t sync. So that’s a temporary workaround….
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I had the same issue but it just all started working again for me. The Mac app and the iOS app is syncing again.
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Same. That is good news, although the lack of response from them on here is worrying and may have forced my move to Apple Notes permanently.
(At least I figured out how to easily migrate. I just wished they’d communicated- the sudden drop and then no notice worried me that they could shut off servers with no notice or chance of backing up data). -
I have the same problem with my iphone not syncing with my laptop, which is doing just fine. Stopped working early morning on Jan 19. I too have read that Simplenote no longer has much if any technical support. I am worried I may need to abandon it, even though I have really liked it for 10+ years. I see one person on this thread suggesting Notion as an alternative. Anyone else have good alternatives? I will give Simplenote a few more days to fix it, but I am not optimistic. In the past, they solved things quickly.
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Hey folks!
While the iOS and macOS apps started syncing again, I was trying to import all my notes into Apple Notes. That’s when I discovered that yesterday’s backup was incomplete: around 2,500 out of my 6,000 notes were missing!
If you’ve exported your notes from the Simplenote web app, please be careful and double-check that your export contains everything.
Here’s how I caught the problem.
I installed the Mac version of Simplenote from their GitHub releases page:
https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron/releases#release-v2.27.1Unlike the Mac App Store version, this version allows you to export your notes. It also started syncing again. I suspect the timing was just a coincidence, and the syncing issue happened to be resolved around the same time.
After exporting my notes from the Mac app, I exported them once again from the web app. The two latest exports matched, but both contained around 2,500 more notes than the backup I had made the day before!
If you’ve experienced the same issue, please let us know! It would be helpful to know how widespread this problem is.
The big question now is whether we can still trust Simplenote with our notes. Honestly, I don’t think we can.
I hate having to switch to Apple Notes, but for now, it seems to be the closest alternative.
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It’s also worth noting that if you’re still using Simplenote, you should export backups regularly and compare the number of notes in each new backup with the previous one to make sure nothing is missing.
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Yet another person with this problem. Signed out of the app on Mac and now every time I try to sign in I get arror messages
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I think we need someone from the Simplenote team to join this discussion and explain what they mean by “only its basic functionality is being maintained at this time.”
What are the plans for Simplenote? Will it continue to be maintained, and what does that mean in practice? Or will it eventually be discontinued?
Also, what happened on October 19, and why did it take so long to fix the problem?
I really appreciate Automattic and everything they’ve done for Simplenote over the years. I understand that the company doesn’t owe us anything, and I’m grateful that they’ve given us such a great app for so many years.
I just hope someone from the team can give us an honest answer about what to expect in the future.
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Those of you who migrated to Apple Notes, were you able to keep the timestamps so that your notes are in the right order? Or does losing the ordering not bother you?
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Everything migrated fine. As someone else said you need to be careful what unarchiver you use to see if dates are maintained on the individual files once unarchived. I then had ChatGPT convert the notes to the (Evernote format – forget what the extension was but I put it in my other post today) and it imported fine to Apple Notes. Kept creation date and last modified date and tags.
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Thanks, good to know. Also while on the topic of Simplenote issues but it’s working again, do you all have the issue where you start using a different device and it will just restore to an older version of the notes as if you went back in time? Version history has no record of it either. Maybe I should make my own post but that happens maybe monthly for me where I will just lose everything that I wrote down for the whole day. The worst part is I don’t even know what I lost and it really sends me into a mental spiral trying to remember everything I wrote down. This usually happens when I’ve been using my iPhone and then open my Mac. Basically the Mac version somehow wins and the more updated iPhone version gets wiped off the face of the earth. There’s a split second before the iPhone syncs where I’ll see my notes if I look at it again but then they’re gone forever. It’s incredibly frustrating and why I still probably need to switch on top of Simplenote security concerns. Also, search in the Simplenote iOS app is pretty broken and basic to begin with. It will like highlight the wrong part of my notes but it’s close so I scroll around and find what I was searching for manually. Simplenote is perfect other than those three issues but alas, I have very little hope that they will be fixed.
