I accidentally deleted a note that I need. I need to restore it. I do not have a recent backup other than iCloud.

rockmyplimsoul wrote:

When this was all complete, the Note that I had deleted came back to my iPhone from the iCloud backup, even though it had been deleted from iCloud and all devices linked to my account. This Note was also pushed to all my other iOS devices.

One slight correction to my conclusion above ... the note did not get pushed to my other iOS devices (I was looking at the wrong note).

Apparently, when you recover a note that was previously shared via iCloud, the recovered version remains only on the device that you restored. To get the note back to iCloud you need to copy and paste it into a new note (assuming that your notes are sync'd to iCloud).

If you did the backup of your notes before deleting then you can easily know how to recover deleted notes on iPhone by the following steps:

1. First don’t connect your iPhone directly to computer because the iTunes only saves the most recent backup

2. Now make sure that you have a valid backup as listed iTunes> preferences> devices

3. Before connecting your iPhone make sure to check iTunes>preferences> devices “prevent iPhone from syncing automatically.” Because this will ensures we don’t erase the previously stored backup. Then select “OK” and close the window after checking “ don’t sync”

4. Now connect your iPhone to your computer and run iPhone Data Recovery .

5. Select the iPhone as seen in the left bar of iTunes, as listed under the devices.

6. Select version and click on restore from options.

7. It takes a while to for iPhone to erase itself, reset and restart.

8. After the iPhone is restart you will see Set Up Your iPhone in iTunes on your computer, and now just click the restore from the backup and click continue. It will take 10 to 12 minutes to recover your deleted notes, photos, music, videos, etc.

Honestly this feature wt iPhones is all screwed up. Just to restore one long important deleted note, you have to restore an entire stored backup. I'm 99% sure that I didn't delete a note today, but I'm 100% sure I didn't permenantly delete the note from my recently deleted notes . Yes I was looking at it, and yes it's now gone, but I looked in my recently deleted notes folder, and it's also not there. I never permanently delete longer notes, because there my be something in them, I might need. Sometimes I'll edit them shorter, and those notes I'll delete. There are a bunch of shorter notes in the recently deleted folder, but not the long one I'm looking for. That note had important things to remember for the gym. For instance when it closes on different days, my gym padlock password, specific exercises, and the amount I now lift. What a pain in the arse. Luckily I have my padlock memorized, or otherwise they would have had to cut my lock off.

You are right. I would rely on iCloud or thrid party apps such as iPad Note Recovery (Mac) to keep a backup of my iPad notes and restore at any time should I need to.