iOS - how to merge "on my iPad" Notes to iCloud after iCloud already activated?

I keep encountering this problem at friends' and it's always the same thing. They wonder why Notes does not sync up to iCloud.

I grab their iPad or iPhone and realize that their notes are written to "On My iPad" or "On My iPhone".

I then google around for a decent app, never find one (is there really no such thing?)..

And wind up copy-pasting them from "On My iPad" to "iCloud" one at a time. Thankfully this time he only had 27 notes so it didn't take that long.

Sometimes I panic and start emailing the Notes one at a time to his email address and then paste them onto his iCloud via OS X action.

Is there really no better way? I've checked around for advice and it seems to always be "Just email them" "Just copypaste them".

Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Here is what you can do, on at least iOS 9.

1. Launch Notes on your iPhone or iPad.
2. While on the list of notes, tap Edit to enter edit mode.
3. Tap Move All to move all notes or, alternatively, select the note(s) you want to move and tap Move To...
4. Select iCloud Notes

That's all.