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My notes have been deleted! Help.

Ok i'm quite frustrated with this issue now.


A couple of weeks ago my iPhone 4S thought it would be a good idea to wipe all of my phone contacts. After some playing around I just turned the iCloud off and then on again and cosequently everyone's phone number in my contacts returned.


Now yesterdsy as I backed out from a note I had just typed up in the notes app obviously, my iPhone thought it would be a good idea to wipe this month's entire history of notes I had written out so essntially i've lost all notes in May. I dd the same again, turn off ICloud and turn back on again but it didn't work. I did all the little things like turn the whole device off, nothing worked. Yesterday was the 17th May.


Now I saw that I had manually backed up my IPhone to a computer on the 11th May so 6 days prior, so I decided to erase all content from phone and restore from there assuming my notes would return, albeit, being behind everywhere else by 6 days. However I was shocked to find my notes had not returned. I then frantically tried to restore back to yesterday's restore point but realised there wasn't a period for this. However, the ICloud had automatically backed up my data on the 16th May so the day before yesterday and when I realised that was the case, I restored to there but despite getting most back of what I had lost over that 6 day period, my notes written in May were STILL nowhere to be seen.


Now I have notes set to back up with the ICloud on my IPhone but all of my notes in May seem to have been mysteriously deleted and I cannot retrieve them again. What do I do now and why has this happened? I'm extremely frustrated and need answers ASAP.


Thank you.

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.6

Posted on May 18, 2014 9:17 AM

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May 18, 2014 11:59 AM in response to Reece94

Now your notes are setup to backup to icloud, but if you go to icloud.com and sign in and do not see your notes it may mean that "before" your notes were backed up somewhere else or perhaps nowhere. Go to notes app and click accounts under notes and find out what accounts you have. Check all those by logging in their respective servers.

Yahoo.com for yahoo, gmail.com for google. If you see group "on my iphone" - those are not synced up separately, but there is a way to retrieve those from backup by using instruction here

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841

You may need to change word notes when in article it says contacts and item number 9 may not work as successfully as with contacts, but at least you will see if notes are in the itunes backup.

My notes have been deleted! Help.

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