Weird Sync Issue = iPhone Notes Will Not Die

Hola, amigos. s’up? I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I’ve had a lot of stuff goin’ down.

I’ve had an issue with Notes on my iPhone. Sure, I could use a content service like Evernote – which I did – but an even simpler tact for us Mac folks is to keep a couple long-lived Notes around and just edit them. Lists n’ shit. You know the deal.

Anyway, so every once in a while Mail.app will have a sync conflict, and every once in a while I’ll click [Sync Later], always by mistake. Now what I noticed is that there was a one-to-one (or nearly) relationship between the times I made that mistake, and Notes that would appear on my iPhone … that I couldn’t get rid of

there was no trace of them in Mail.app. I explicitly flushed my Trash a couple times, but to no effect
you’d figure that the the mobile Notes would have singular authority & ownership, but nope. I’d delete them, they’d come back, and they kept getting older and more annoying
the friendly Genius Bar staff had no other advice to give besides doing an explicit iTunes re-sync via Advanced :: Replace information on this iPhone :: [x] Notes, but to no effect

Now, I know that this isn’t a particularly technical post. However since I couldn’t find any reference to anyone else having this problem – at least based on the keywords I was using – I figured I’d drop a few of them and describe the solution:

view the Note, select all, and delete
the mobile app auto-deletes the empty Note
voila!. It’s gone for good

There. Now you know what I know

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