How to undo the deletion of all the contents of a note?

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How to undo the deletion of all the contents of a note?

Yesterday I marked all the contents of a note and deleted it since I thought it was full off crap (turns out it actually contained some information I need). I have tried to recover the note using the normal method of looking for it in the "Recently Deleted" folder in the notes app, but its not there.

I expected the note itself to exist, but be empty such that I could just undo all the deletions from yesterday, but that is not the case. The problem might be that deleting the contents of the note turned it in to some sort of anonymous note which is not saved, but I don't know. Does anyone know a solution to the problem?

iPhone 13, iOS 17

Posted on May 29, 2024 5:44 AM

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pjswiz

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May 29, 2024 7:27 AM in response to Robert1378

Hi Robert1378,

I just tested this with my own Notes app. Yes, if you delete all the contents within a note (so it’s completely empty) and then leave the note, it is deleted just as any empty note would be. However, since there is no content and you didn’t delete the note the normal way, it treated it like any empty note and just removed it. This would not be in your Recently Deleted folder.

The only way to recover these notes would be attempting to revert to a backup where the note existed. I’m not guaranteeing this works, but is an option if you really need these notes back.

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