How to update Files successfully to iCloud from my Mac?

aydentorres1 wrote:

I had connected my laptop to my phone but my messages and Spotify and other files are from 3 years ago

...but your message and Spotify and other files from three years ago.... what? You don't seem to have finished the sentence.

Are both devices signed into the same Apple ID (which may or may not be the same as the Apple ID you used to log in here)?

You laptop and you iPhone both have to be using your Apple ID which you used to log into this Apple Community to have Notes sync between devices.