Recovering deleted notes on iPad

If you synced your iPad to your computer before the notes got deleted, you can restore it as the last backup you made- with the notes on it. Otherwise you might be able to get them off iCloud.

I had the same problem and followed HopPoleGal's advice and had my note back in mere minutes. Thanks! If you're not sure where your Notes are backing up, just check Settings-Notes to see your Default Account. Mine went to Gmail and sure enough, I found a Notes folder in there. Thanks HopPoleGal!

Ohmigod. shebster you just saved my life!!! Just lost a half finished article (2 hours work on a deadline!) - butter fingers on iPad! The hot flush of angst as I realised what I'd done! And there it was in my gmail. THANK YOU THANK YOU X

bloody google drive doesn't work well on iPad so had to resort to notes. Thank god for gmail sync and you sharing.

Thanks to all who triggered to look in the email id set in the settings ! . I can also find my daughter's work back.

I found the Folder name " Notes" in the email and got back all the deleted files....

Thank you so much for posting your solution. I retrieved my note from an email folder. It was sitting right there along with two other "lost" notes!

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! This saved my life (: Totally worked!

This is a suggestion that will work for those who use gmail for their notes. It's also a strong recommendation that if you can that you should consider using gmail for important notes. It will require a free gmail account, but there are worse things in life and you DO NOT have to use the email part of the account except to find your missing notes as described below:

1. When you use gmail for your notes each note is stored as an email with the FROM being your gmail address, the subject being the Note title.

2. You can therefore resurrect any NOTE by simply hitting restore of that email or by copying that entire NOTE (yes it's all there) and making a new note on your IOS device.

3. To find this archive which you will find stores the NOTE every single time you make a change to it and I think even every day if you don't make a change to it (not sure about that). You simply do a search in your gmail with the from being your gmail address and the subject being the name of that NOTE.

Therefore if you use GMAIL the likelihood that you would lose any important notes is almost ZERO, however, if you want to make sure a NOTE can NEVER be found again (ie you put some incriminating or embarassing info there), you will need to DELETE permanently ALL of the copies of that NOTE in your gmail account.

This feature might exist in other NOTE set-ups for other mail providers, but I am only familiar with GMAIL. I do not believe it works this way for iCloud or at least I couldn't find it that way there.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Worked!

SHebester's post saved my life .I had a long list of my desired books waiting for order. Then suddenly I deleted the notes stupidly !

BY going via safari to gmail , I found all of them .didn't test other ways .

one more recommendation : if you have several email acounts , check out the note settings in setting part. Then switch the default mail acount to your desired one.

Another suggestion : in ios 7 or newer vertions , there is an option in note app that you can choose between 3 options ( on my ipad / gmail/ notes) .

THis is the easiest way you can restore all the notes again 🙂

I tried to use the recovery software - it cost me 100GBP and I got nowhere. Moreover, the email address only worked to pay for more software. Not very impressive.

And now, two years later, your response is STILL helping. Thank you so much. Worked perfectly.

Thank you so much, you just saved my mom's file that was SUPER important. God bless you! 🙂

Thank you sooooooooo much! I lost two years of medical notes and you just saved them!!!

Go to icloud on laptop and login to your acc > choose notes > there's a tab on the left for recently deleted > recover

This really works...thanks a lot...