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Help! In settings, notes, i turned off “on my iphone account” where I had notes, not in icloud, just on the phone. Then it deleted them. The notes are not in the “recently deleted” folder. I was just trying to put them in icloud

I was just putting the iphone notes on icloud because i am going to purchase a new iphone and wanted it to be saved all in icloud. But i missed. So now i dont have any of my important information.

Posted on Mar 17, 2018 2:30 PM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2018 5:04 AM

When you turned off that option you were given the following screen:


User uploaded file


What you wanted to do at that point was to select Go to Notes so that you could then select "EDIT" which would provide you with an option to "Move" the selected Notes to iCloud.


Unfortunately, by deleting them, they were completely wiped.


You can try to see if they might be in a backup. iCloud-sync'd notes do not go to your backup, of course, but local iPhone Notes might. Do you have a backup that you created prior to the Delete action?


Cheers,


GB

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Mar 18, 2018 5:04 AM in response to meli19cs

When you turned off that option you were given the following screen:


User uploaded file


What you wanted to do at that point was to select Go to Notes so that you could then select "EDIT" which would provide you with an option to "Move" the selected Notes to iCloud.


Unfortunately, by deleting them, they were completely wiped.


You can try to see if they might be in a backup. iCloud-sync'd notes do not go to your backup, of course, but local iPhone Notes might. Do you have a backup that you created prior to the Delete action?


Cheers,


GB

Help! In settings, notes, i turned off “on my iphone account” where I had notes, not in icloud, just on the phone. Then it deleted them. The notes are not in the “recently deleted” folder. I was just trying to put them in icloud

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