Apple - Transfer Notes from iCloud

I was able to move my iCloud notes to a new iCloud account using the following method.

  1. Signout (if required) and Signin to the old iCloud account (via Settings / iCloud)
  2. Go into Notes app on Mac
  3. Go into Preferences
  4. Select "Enable the On My Mac account"
  5. Select all notes you want to move, right click and select "Move to/On My Mac/Notes"
  6. Signout of the old iCloud account and Signin to the new iCloud account (via Settings / iCloud)
  7. Select all notes you want to move, right click and select "Move to/iCloud/Notes"

Transferring notes from one Apple-ID to another is quite difficult on iOS, because when you logout from one account all the notes in iCloud disappear locally, dissimilar to the contacts. so I recommend you to do this job on your Mac, it's so easy. I assume your notes sync with iCloud on your OS X machine.

  1. Open note app, login your original iCloud ID if you haven't and wait for all the notes sync completely
  2. Click the "Notes"->"add account" menu to add another iCloud account (you can only check to select "notes" service)
  3. Click "View"->"Show Folders list" if the folders is hidden
  4. Select oringal account from the folder on the left side
  5. Choose the notes you want transfer by or Click, you can choose "Edit"->"Select All" as well
  6. Drag all your selected notes to the new account on the left folder
  7. Wait for the sync to complete and check the result on the iCloud web site.

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