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nemo2021 Author

Level 1

10 points

Recover unsaved pdf file

Hi,

I opened a pdf document with Mail and marked it up with Apple Pencil. Unfortunately I did not save the document. The iPad ran out of battery and when it restarted, the file with the annotations was gone. Is there a way to recover the file?

Thanks

iPad, iPadOS 14

Posted on Mar 29, 2021 10:50 PM

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Mar 30, 2021 6:06 AM in response to nemo2021

Unsaved files will not be recoverable.

Recover unsaved pdf file

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