How to reset forgotten Notes password on iPhone

What are you talking about? If you forgot passcode from old notes, you can reset Generic password inside Noetes App with the help of your Apple ID. After stting up new password, just move your old locked notes to any new folder and you will be able to unlock them with the new password, regardless the fact which password were there before, whether your forgot them or not.

Nonrecoverable old notes with forgotten passcodes is a myth! Why everyone spread it?

Remove the note lock altogether with your thumbprint and then lock them again after changing the password. Settings - Notes - Reset Password

Previous locked notes are not accepting the new reset password.

The new note password is only for new notes.

Difficult to retrieve previous notes now.

Keep putting your password in until it tells you to reset it or reset your password to get into your phone like your cloud password and try it

correction = “due to the fact”

Spell check keeps correcting my writing and replaces it when it’s not needed...too sensitive with the new iPhone update! And, after posting a reply I can’t simply go back in to edit it. Bummer! And, major flaw! 🙁

I went from using a touch ID to the iPhone X which is face ID. It won't let me open any of my locked notes nor can I copy and paste as you suggested above. Does anyone else have other ideas or facing the same problem? Thanks!

Hi, I am having the same issue and when I went to Apple to get assistance, it was a useless attempt.

Please let me know if you figure a way to unlock your old notes. I really need to access mine.

Thanks,

P

Can you attach a screenshot of the pop-up, or provide the exact wording and description of its contents? This is what comes up when I attempt to open a locked note (using iOS 11.2.2):

Also, FYI - the password is your Lock Screen password - the one you put in when your Touch ID is not recognized. If you change your Lock Screen password, the locked note retains the original password.

One last thought - have you checked: Settings>Notes>Password, to make sure that Touch ID is turned on there still?

Thanks,

GB

SOLUTION

You need to follow these steps, writed above:

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

1. Go to Settings > Notes > Password.
2. Tap Reset Notes Password.
3. Enter your Apple ID password.
4. Tap Reset Notes Password again.
5. Enter your new password and password hint.

Then

Go to notes:

1. Create a new note

2. Lock these new note with your new password

3. Open these new note with your face id to test

4. Open the old locked note with your face id (A note that you have forgotten a password)

5. That's it!

well I’m pretty sure I didn’t create a separate password for my notes either. When I locked it’d ask for a password and I’d enter my phone password and it’d open. Then I deactivated the password and when trying to unlock the note the older password didn’t work, even when activating it again. I don’t think there’s a solution :/ as setting a new password for notes will only work on new notes. I hope you didn’t have anything important there.

If you’ve locked notes on your phone and resetting the password doesn’t work. You can reset your password as well as enabling faceID. You can then delete locked notes, reopen the notes in the deleted folder and faceID will open them and you can move them to your ICloud notes folder.

When you keep typing in your password wrong in notes it’s going to eventually prompt you to activate back face ID and you’re going to get in your notes the same thing happened to me you have to do it like 2 to 3 times even four and then it pops up and prompt you

Hi,

I forgot my password too and i have been trying for months to unlock it, i just figured it and very simple,

create a new note and lock 🔐 it known password then

Go to settings- Note- reset password-enable your face id

come back and open u locked note

it work for me.

hope this help someone,

note !! I switch from fingerprint to face id

If you have the iPhone with the Face ID you can also set new password for your notes with the reset password thing and then open locked notes with face ID then remove the password and set it again.

It worked for me

.. this is a HUGE oversight

Actually, this is excellent security.

Did you enter a password hint when you created your password?

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