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ACCIDENTALLY DELETED MY NOTES HOW CAN I RECOVER THEM

how can i recover my notes

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.1

Posted on Jun 30, 2011 7:53 AM

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Posted on Jun 30, 2011 8:26 AM

Were they synced to anything?

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Dec 5, 2011 5:57 AM in response to charlieorlando

I would like to know that to. I used to take notes on my iPad on a important meeting last week. Now I opened the Notes Application to read them. Several minutes later I closed my iPad's smart cover without closing Notes. Another 5 minutes later, I opened cover just to see how my text started to disapear just as I was holding backspace key, but I wasn't! I could not do anything before all text was erased and the note disapeared from list. I tried to open notes on my iPhone, so I put it on airplane mode to stop it from synchronizing via iCloud but it was to late - when I opened notes, I just saw for a fraction of second my note before it disapeared. That sucs. I felt like fool because I trusted the iPad instead of using a simple pencil and paper to document my meeting!


I won't use notes in iOS again, before I find suitable notes application which will ask me before saving and deleting notes!!!

Oct 5, 2012 3:46 PM in response to charlieorlando

I did all the right back ups, but when I restored my phone everthing restored perfectly except for notes which placed my husbands notes over mine. We use the same Mac to sync. I backed up my phone, then restored it and all my data restored fine with the exception of notes. Why is it so hard to restore notes? Why is this a common problem, why are notes so different than contacts. Everyone is using it for important information so when it disappears we are really, really upset and not thinking kind thoughts of Apple.

Jun 23, 2014 3:38 AM in response to charlieorlando

If you backup with iTunes and you restored from the backup and the notes were gone, then there is no where to retrieve them from unless you have another backup that contains those notes.


Launch iTunes on the computer and go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices. You will see a window with all of your backups listed in it.


If you see a recent backup that you are certain contains the notes that you need, recover deleted notes from iPhone backup.


If your note is gone from iCloud.com there is only a few ways to possibly recover it.


The first things I would check is a iCloud Backup, a iTunes Backup, or a 3rd party email that may have contained the note. To restore from a iCloud or iTunes backup follow this


link. This article explains how to restore a device from either back up.


Note if you have backed up since the note went missing, you will not have the note on the backup. Make sure you do not back up if trying to restore from a back up as this will


back up the content without the note.


To get to the "Set up assistant" on an iOS device, you must go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content and Settings. Once the phone restarts, you will be at the "Set up Assistant"

Oct 18, 2016 8:48 PM in response to charlieorlando

I Just jotted a note down in the note folder i named 'Randome' on my iPhone 6s, then accidentally deleted the whole folder, (1)just went back to all my notes, (2)went to search bar, (3)searched for 'Randome' and the whole folder came up under (resently deleted) then I just copy and pasted in a new note, Walla. Sorry if everybody knows this already, and this was a waste of time...cheers✌ ️

ACCIDENTALLY DELETED MY NOTES HOW CAN I RECOVER THEM

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