How to reset forgotten Notes password on iPhone

I recently switched from iPhone 7 Max to the iPhone 11 ProMax. When I did the transfer I forgot to unlock the locked notes on my phone. I’d always used touch-ID to access them but on the 11 that isn’t an option. After scouring the Internet I found no solutions to get into these old notes. After resigning to delete these notes I was prompted to answer if I wanted to use Face-ID to delete the note. I said yes and the note was deleted. I then wondered if that had now enabled Face-ID for my other old locked notes and lo and behold - it did!!! I can now access my old notes!! So in deleting one I got access to the rest. I don’t know if sharing the note prompts the same thing but I can say deletion does. Hope this helps.

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 have kinda the same problem, except I dont remember creating a separate password for my notes. I have always opened and closed these notes with fingerprint, not with my passcode and now that I have changed phone my locked notes are not opening anymore... It is always asking for a password but it is neither my passcode (old) nor my apple id password... Is this password one of these or is it something that you had to create specifically for the notes? Thanks!

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.

i have lock my note password and it don’t not reset I have try so many times and i have iPhone 6 Touch ID is not working so please help me to reset my password because in that I have store rest of password so plz help me

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.

After opening an email from someone in my phone contacts list It turned out to be malicious as the person who had sent was unaware his details had been taken and were being used improperly- result meant I changes my passwords for Appleid and several others quickly, however there was a possibility that I might still suffer loss of data from my notes - so since there were only two sensitive notes with all my relevant data both on my iPad and only one on my phone I decided to protect the iPad notes with passwords (not cloud items), what a mistake. DON’T EVER USE THIS PASSWORD FEATURE as password problems render notes irrecoverable. One day later I find that my new password fails (no mistakes no mis-entering of the password) to open the locked notes, most of my data relates to business accounts, government accounts and banking security so I now face a mountain of work to to work through each loss and recover my own data. I did read the help texts and was careful with checking that the. Toes worked afterwards but...... Murphy’s Law applies!

Sad that there is no double or even triple I’d verification process for the user to recover this password problem and we pay highly for the hardware and software we use.

Andy

If you locked your notes after a backup then there is some hope. If you have a backup available that was created by Time Machine before you locked your notes, then you can use the Migration Assistant with that particular Time Machine backup to revert your system. After the migration is completed you will be able to view your notes without a password.

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 forgot my password to my notes, and I reset the password. But when I put in the new password it declines it and gives me the same hint for my old password. How do I get a new password on my already existing notes??

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.

After a while of you putting in the password wrong they’ll ask you if you wanna use facial recognition if you have a facial recognition on the phone as for if you don’t I’m not sure quite how you reset it but all mines asked for is my facial recognization if I wanted to use it and I clicked yes and it just scanned my face and I was able to get him back to my notes

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

The purpose of iCloud is stores your photos and stuff in case you don’t have an SD card to store all your information iCloud stores all your photos your notes and the app and when you back it up in settings it restores your information.