Deleted all notes by accident

I accidentally deleted all of my notes off of my iPhone 11. They are showing in my iCloud in the notes folder, but I don’t know how to copy them all back onto my phone. I can see them all in my iCloud Drive and after fishing around, I ended up in the “data recovery” folder, but they aren’t showing up there. I backed up my iPhone in my iPhones settings and even tried rebooting my iPhone. Nothing. Please advise on how to recover them if possible. Thanks!


this is showing my earlier iPhone 7, this is incorrect. I’m on the iPhone 11 and iOS is current.

iPhone 7

Posted on Nov 7, 2024 7:52 PM

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Posted on Nov 8, 2024 6:43 AM

Al, I can not thank you enough! My notes did indeed recover, but in a very strange way. I followed your instructions. Went to the notes icon inside iCloud and opened it up. The green sync button was on so I shut it off, I then received a pop up message saying, “Are you sure you want to turn off notes? Some changes have not been uploaded to iCloud. If you turn off Notes, these changes will be lost”. Below this in large red text, “Delete From iPhone,” or “cancel.” I obviously chose cancel. Thinking it failed, I then went to my notes app on my iPhone and opened it, just to see if anything had changed since last posting this message. I watched in disbelief as slowly my notes recovered back into my notes app over a period of about 15 seconds. Yes!!! To me this seemed an odd recovery, but you obviously have a great understanding of iPhone anomaly, lol. Again, I can’t thank you enough. I never would have figured that out myself. You have made my day, week even! 👌🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

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Nov 8, 2024 6:43 AM in response to AlWeir

Al, I can not thank you enough! My notes did indeed recover, but in a very strange way. I followed your instructions. Went to the notes icon inside iCloud and opened it up. The green sync button was on so I shut it off, I then received a pop up message saying, “Are you sure you want to turn off notes? Some changes have not been uploaded to iCloud. If you turn off Notes, these changes will be lost”. Below this in large red text, “Delete From iPhone,” or “cancel.” I obviously chose cancel. Thinking it failed, I then went to my notes app on my iPhone and opened it, just to see if anything had changed since last posting this message. I watched in disbelief as slowly my notes recovered back into my notes app over a period of about 15 seconds. Yes!!! To me this seemed an odd recovery, but you obviously have a great understanding of iPhone anomaly, lol. Again, I can’t thank you enough. I never would have figured that out myself. You have made my day, week even! 👌🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

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