syncing wiped out notes
Alright so i’ll try to explain this as best as i can. i hope questions like these are allowed as im not familiar with this sub, so my icloud storage has been full for awhile but it hasn’t been years only a few months im pretty sure. so i went to my icloud to make sure everything was syncing, then saw for my notes app it wasn’t so i turned sync on so in case my phone ever broke i would have notes saved to icloud as i use it literally everyday, but it deleted and wiped out my entire notes app that ive used every single day for the past 5 years, and synced back to the version i first had when i got the phone im using which was in 2020. i turned sync back off to see if it would reverse it but it didn’t. this is more of a question so pardon for the useless question but does anyone know what happened? :( im just confused because i get my icloud was too full to sync my newest bits version, but my icloud was only full for a few months, yet it synced to the 2020 version. i didn’t know turning sync on would sync it to the latest version last synced? i thought it would just sync it to icloud so i’m very frustrated because i thought turning sync on would’ve saved my notes in case my phone broke but it actually wiped out the entire app and sent to the earliest version.
It doesn’t make sense because my icloud storage was full for months, so my notes app should’ve had time to at least sync to the version of the year beside this one or earlier in this year, but no it synced to the 2020 version but i’m almost SURE that within the 5 years of having my phone, it would’ve had time to sync to at least a earlier version rather than the first version. again, i’m just so confused on how turning sync on would sync it to the earliest version, and not just sync the newest version to icloud as that’s what i thought i was doing?
to sum it up, i turned icloud sync on for my notes and it synced to the 2020 version(earliest version) instead of keeping the version i last had in my phone and im not sure why or how to get it back