Locked notes

Set up your notes password

Before you can lock your notes, create a password that you can easily remember. And make sure that you give yourself a password hint. If you forget your password, Apple can't help you reset it.

If you access your iCloud notes on more than one Apple device, you'll use the same notes password to lock and unlock all of them.

* If you enable Face ID or Touch ID for your notes password, it adds the encryption keys used to encrypt your notes to your keychain — which can be accessed with your device passcode. This means that anyone with your device passcode can access your locked notes. For maximum security, you can opt to not enable Face ID or Touch ID for your notes password.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

You can create a password in your device Settings or directly in the Notes app. Then you can enable Face ID or Touch ID, so that you can use your face or fingerprint to unlock your protected notes.

Create a password in Settings

1. Go to Settings > Notes.
2. Tap Password. If you have multiple accounts, tap the account you want to create a password for before you set up the password.
3. Enter a password, then make sure to give yourself a password hint. If your device supports it, enable Face ID or Touch ID.
4. Tap Done.

Create a password in Notes

1. Open a note that you want to lock.
2. Tap the Action button  , then tap Lock Note.
3. Enter a password, then make sure to give yourself a password hint. If your device supports it, enable Face ID or Touch ID.
4. Tap Done.

After you lock a note, it's automatically protected with your password on all your devices. If you use Face ID or Touch ID to unlock notes on your other devices, you must enter your password, then enable Face ID or Touch ID on the device you're using. Keep in mind that anyone that knows your device passcode can access your locked notes. For maximum security, you can opt to not enable Face ID or Touch ID for your notes password.

If you have imported some notes from Old iPhone to new one then it will have to attach the password to the new Touch ID / Face ID on your new iPhone. At some given time you must have created a password and enabled touch Id / Face ID to the password. Any Notes created there after will only use your Touch ID / Face ID. Because of this it ir very likely that you may not recall the password now.

Face ID / Touch IDs are not transferable from one device to another.