Retrieving missing notes from iPhone 11 to iPhone 17

All of my notes on my notes app disappeared from my iphone 11 64gb. They are not backed up to the cloud and they are not deleted. It was due to lack of space. The storage in the app still shows that the documents and data are still there. I now have an iphone 17 256gb and everything has been transferred but I still cannot see my notes. Can I retreive them at all?


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Original Title: Notes disappeared


iPhone 17, iOS 26

Posted on Nov 4, 2025 6:24 AM

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Nov 4, 2025 8:06 AM in response to retreivenotes

Making sure you have the ability to store or backup data is important. It's like wanting to know how to retrieve a gallon of water you poured in the ground. There's no way to retrieve it as it's no longer really stored anywhere.


And LD150 is absolutely correct. You could have bought more space in iCloud for $1 a month. But once a phone itself is out of space, you have delete things you don't need or use to free up space. Or as you have done, buy a phone which has more internal storage.

Nov 4, 2025 6:31 AM in response to retreivenotes

retreivenotes wrote:

All of my notes on my notes app disappeared from my iphone 11 64gb. They are not backed up to the cloud and they are not deleted. It was due to lack of space. The storage in the app still shows that the documents and data are still there. I now have an iphone 17 256gb and everything has been transferred but I still cannot see my notes. Can I retreive them at all?

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Original Title: Notes disappeared

I'm sorry, but data which is not stored somewhere, like in iCloud or a backup cannot be retrieved.

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Retrieving missing notes from iPhone 11 to iPhone 17

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