[izacus]

Uhm, Apple also holds emails, calendars, contacts and notes on their servers via iCloud.

[eridius]

Beyond explicitly using secure notes (which are encrypted), I don't recall Apple promising "confidentiality" of those things. I mean, I don't expect Apple to give that data to others, but I also don't assume Apple has no way of accessing that given a court order.

[ceejayoz]

Notes can be set as secure, which encrypts them with a password Apple doesn't have access to.