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Lost notes

I’ve been saving important notes on my iPhone for years in an account that was not active (I hadn’t logged in). Where were they being saved? Locally somehow I suppose. I recently did log in to that account and it replaced all those notes with the ones from 2015. Is there a backup somewhere? I found them on another device, but before I could save them they too got overwritten.

iPhone XS, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 28, 2019 6:06 AM

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SravanKrA

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Apr 28, 2019 7:00 AM in response to Obediahveronica

Missing Notes from Notes App on iPhone, iPad

You can't find it in the recently deleted folder, then probably you have not deleted any Notes.

(See the GIF below)

The options are...

Check in your iCloud account: https://www.icloud.com
Check your email accounts that you had but removed. Because many of the accounts have notes synced like Google, Yahoo, Outlook, Exchange etc...

You may have shared the Notes over AirDrop
You may have sent the Notes via iMessage or email to someone
Did you backup on Mac/PC via iTunes? Restore from iTunes.
- Take a fresh BackUp (Or else you will lose all new data, photos, Notes etc)
- Restore from Old BackUp via iTunes (Not iCloud)
- Retrieve your Note(s)
- Restore from New BackUp via iTunes (Not iCloud)

Do not restore from iCloud backup.

iCloud backup doesn't include information already stored in iCloud, like Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, Mail, Notes, Voice Memos, shared photos, iCloud Photos, Health data, call history, and files you store in iCloud Drive.

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