I deleted a note about 2 months ago…is there any chance I can find it/restore it?

I have attempted to find a note from my iPad, but I truly did delete it and it is over a month beyond the 30 dat restore mark. Any chance I’ll ever find it?

Posted on Aug 30, 2023 5:43 AM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2023 5:46 AM

Notes synchronised with iCloud are retained (and are recoverable) for 30-days after deletion - after which deletion is permanent.


If you don't have an independent backup of the Note's contents, your data is irretrievable.

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Dec 1, 2023 6:50 PM in response to Skenn848

Possible if you have an older iPad or Mac with that note on it that has not synced with iCloud recently.


I somehow deleted some notes and did not notice for several months. I have a MacBook Air that I use infrequently so I air-gapped it by turning off my home wifi and then booted it up. After booting, I turned off wifi on the machine and proceeded to look through the Notes App. I found the two very important notes that had deleted. I copied the notes by hand and then was able to enter them back into Notes on my daily driver Mac.


I don't know if this would work with an iPad but in theory it should. It should also work if you could boot with an air-gapped backup disk on a Mac. The key is to not let it sync with iCloud.

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