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How to find and retrieve suddenly disappeared iPhone notes?

As Apple Notes supports adding forms, scanning documents and other functions, it becomes more and more powerful and practical, and we can record our thoughts at any time. But have you ever lost your important iPhone notes? Deleted iPhone notes by accident? Or your recent iPhone notes were lost due to some unknown reason. Maybe many iPhone users have experienced this situation, read below to know why it happens and how to fix iPhone lost notes?

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The iPhone note database stored on both the local disk and iCloud, and it is safe to use normally. However, after the iOS system is upgraded or the iPhone device is restored, all iPhone notes are empty, the Notes application may be abnormal or the Notes database cannot be read. If your note application only lost some recent notes, If your note application only lost some recent notes, this may be caused by synchronization of the note application.

Another part of iPhone users lost iPhone notes because they locked the note, but forgot the encryption password. In this case, there is no way to crack it. So when we set the encryption password, please turn on Face ID or Touch ID option when locking notes. So even if we forget your password, we can still access the note.

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Is there any way to solve the above iPhone notes loss due to iOS upgrade, iCloud notes synchronization, or even accidental deletion?

 

Method 1: Recover or export notes from the iCloud

 

If you have turned on iCloud notes on your iPhone, all your notes will sync to iCloud and other iOS devices with the same Apple ID. If other iOS devices make changes or delete notes in the Notes application, it will sync to your iPhone. Go to www.icloud.com, and login with your Apple ID and password, access the Notes and find the notes folder and Recently Deleted folder, and then download notes from iCloud.

Recover or export notes from the iCloud

 

Method 2: Recover or export Notes from the iPhone backup

 

If you have made an iPhone backup with iCloud or the computer, retrieving notes from the backup may be the most practical way. Before restoring the backup, we need to confirm that your backup content contains the lost iPhone notes. Here we use the third-party application Fone Rescue, it can read and export all iPhone data from the backup. Download and install Fone Rescue here:

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Run Fone Rescue application, and select the “Recover From iTunes Backup” option, if you’re using macOS 10.14 and later, you need to add Full Disk Access list (Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Full Disk Access)

Recover or export Notes from the iPhone backup

Click Note & Others tab -> Note in the result view, it will display all iPhone notes, and you can select them and click the “Export the selected Notes” button to save them.

Recover or export Notes from the iPhone backup

 

Method 3: Recover or export Notes from the iPhone database

 

If you don’t have any iPhone backup, Fone Rescue provides an option to scan the iPhone device and get lost notes from the iPhone database. Please connect your iPhone device with the computer, and then run Fone Rescue. Click the Start Scan button in the Recover From iOS Device tab.

Recover or export Notes from the iPhone

Click Note & Others tab -> Note in the result view, it will list lost notes and exist iPhone notes, or click Hex Preview mode to search the deleted notes fragments and you can select them and click the “Export the selected Notes” button to save them.

Recover or export Notes from the iPhone

 

 

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