I forgot the password for my locked notes. How can I reset the password?
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See the following from Keep your notes secure with password-protection - Apple Support
If you forgot your notes password
You can unlock a note only when you enter the password that it's locked with. If you forgot your password, Apple can't help you regain access to your locked notes.
You can reset your password, but this won’t give you access to your old notes. It will, however, let you password protect any notes that you create from that point forward with the new password. This could lead to you having multiple notes with different passwords.
If you have multiple passwords, you can't tell which password you should use when you look at your notes in the Notes list. When you open a note locked by your old password but enter your current password, you'll see an alert that you entered the wrong password with a hint for your old one. If you then enter the correct old password, you get the option to update that note's password to your current one.
Reset your notes password
When you reset your Notes password, it doesn't delete or change the password of your notes that are already locked. If you have a note that uses an old password, you can update it to the new password when you enter the old password, remove the old password, then apply your new password to the note.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:
- Go to Settings > Notes > Password.
- Tap Reset Notes Password.
- Enter your Apple ID password.
- Tap Reset Notes Password again.
- Enter your new password and password hint.
On your Mac:
- Open Notes.
- In the menu bar, click Notes > Reset Password > OK.
- Enter your Apple ID password.
- Click Reset Password.
- Enter your new password and password hint.
My Face ID would not recognize me. after the latest update. I finally entered the correct password, to unlock notes. Is it a good idea to use the Lock Screen number password for notes?
I was forgot the password of notes please suggest how to recover then
I forgot my notes password. Can I recover it. If I try to open a note it needs a password
Forgot my password to my notes how do I reaet
I forgot my notes password. Can I recover it. If I try to open a note it needs a password
How can I recover my notes but I don’t remember my password and I got a new phone so my apple Face ID was not available.
I do not have any memory of ever even setting a password for Notes; I had locked them with solely Touch ID. My fingers were dirty and my Touch ID wouldn’t work, so after trying a few times, I had to fill in a password. But if I have no password, how do I regain access to my locked notes?
Unfortunately, FaceID and TouchID are only aids which keep you from having to enter the Notes password quite as often; you still have to KNOW and enter and your password occasionally.
It’s not unlike your iPhone / iPad passcodes; FaceID unlocks your devices “most of the time” …
… but you STILL have to enter your passcode occasionally. (e.g. at initial “power-on” and at-least “weekly”)
Notes ➔ Preferences ➔ Reset Password
i agree with this statement, i had a fraudulent situation with my bank and i decided to change all my passwords. when i got home i forgot the new one i used and my phone ended up going into locked status connect to itunes. spent 9hours with several support reps that couldnt do anything but repeat the same solutions. sign into appleid, use itunes, icloud, backup/restore from itunes in recovery mode. all in the end none of these options worked out for me. i ended up wiping the phone and had to start all over again. i lost several important information access apps etc... when i finally got everything almost back up well at least half of the things missing i was able to retrieve. had to use my other phones tablets and PCs to find pieces of information that helped recover a few things. but still its pointless solutions really.
just a while ago i couldnt open my notes the pw that i used before i cant remember i had a pw hint but i forgot the format i used or if i had special characters or spaces etc... and all im told is if you dont know we cant help you. try to remember the pw and keep trying
thats a really vauge response. its 2019 and with the technology that is out and apple being around for so long, no expandable memory for ONE, the cheesy support you get and if you talk bad about apple you get disconnected or hung up on. But being human and frustrated you rely on support and recieve this kind of feedback by them convinces me to switch to blackberry or android devices.
i mean think about this with me for a moment. u got passcodes, note passcodes, phone unlock codes, apple ids, eye scan, fingerprint scan, yet you cant come up with a simple method for a notepad? you really think im buying that lame sense of excuse? umm no! sorry. come up with a better response and hmu in the morning! like get it together apple seriously. ive spent probably about 2hours so far trying every possible algorithim i can come up with and every possible pattern of passwords ive used to my memory throughout my lifetime. and none which help. even notepad has a reset password, but the joke is a small fine print that says this will reset your passcode for your notes going forward but notes locked prior to this change will not be effected.... why is notes this important. if they declare its for secure reasons then why cant there be locks for things like emails and text messages contacts phone calls etc.... whatsApp has a feature that they will send you if requested all ur information. many apps programs devices have a fail safe backup plan for those simple minded folk like me to recover pws in these critical moments with ease. we have to add on to the list of backup options two-point verification methods by call text email or code. why couldnt there be one of those options. as a matter of fact instead of apple asking me for my serial number just to ask if i tried this and that which ive repeatedly indicated that they dont work. they can remote into your phone and see and control ur phone but they tell you sorry nothing they can do. if u forget oh well whichs is a load of bs. apple needs to smarten up serioyusly. ive already started marketing my iphone for sale so i can buy a S9.
anyone want a iphone 7plus lol
set up face id for notes, go to locked note , it will show locked , but ask to view note. Touch view note and face id will open it. Don’t try to set up face id from your home screen note icon. Go to settings-notes-password-snd turn on face id button.
okay, now that i figured it out for myself. I upgraded a phone from one without face id to the iphone 11. so it doesn’t let you log into your old notes even if you reset the password. what you need to do is delete the note you want, then it will ask if you want to use face id. go to your recently deleted and you can unlock the notes! hope this helps
For Computer: I locked myself out of one of my notes and forgot the password. If you have touch ID on your computer, set it up and get into your locked notes that way. You can unlock or change password after that then remove the touch ID, if you don't want it.
I was able to get back into mine by resetting my password (which requires your Apple ID password) and then I turned on my Face ID and put the new password I just created in and now it works. I’m not sure about other phones but I have the 11 pro max
I had the same problem. If you don’t already have Face ID set up, set it up and make it so that Face ID can be used on locked notes as well. Go into your notes and use the newly set Face ID to unlock your notes and once you’ve gained access to the notes, remove the lock and set a new notes password. Then you can remove Face ID if you want. This is what worked for me but it will probably only work if you don’t already have Face ID set up.
How to reset forgotten Notes password on iPhone
