How to Recover Deleted Notes on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

If you Recover Deleted Your Notes on iPhone, iPad,a and Mac and now you want to get back your notes. So don’t worry. I will show you how to recover lost notes in iPhone, iPad and Mac. You can also recover lost notes from iCloud backup. Look at all the options and select the one that is best for you.

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Recover Deleted Notes from the Notes App

Apple has added a “Recently Deleted” option to the Notes app. If you delete a note and now you want to get it back. Note that this method will work for 30 days even after removal. It can take up to 40 days to get rid of iPhone notes.

For iPhone and iPad

• Open Notes → Tap Folders if you see the lists of notes.
  You might have to tap twice the back arrow (<) if you are inside an individual note.
• Tap Recently Deleted.

• Now, you will see all the deleted notes.
• To recover a single Note: Swipe left → Select the purple folder icon → Choose the folder where you want to save the note.

• To recover multiple notes: Tap Edit → Select the notes you want to recover → Tap Move → Choose the destination folder.

Note: You can also create a new folder to find the old folder in your device.

For Mac

You can get back your deleted apps with the help of Notes app by using the steps given above. You can also use the browser to sign in to your iCloud account and retrieve old notes. But apps can only retrieve more than one note at a time from iCloud Notes app.

• Visit iCloud.com via a web browser → Sign in using your Apple ID credentials.
• Click Notes → Choose Recently Deleted in the left sidebar.
• Find the missing note and open it.
• Click Recover to save it to your Mac.

Search to Find Missing Notes

It may also happen that you can’t find the missing notes in the recently deleted folder. In this case, you can search the Notes app to find the updated notes.

• Open Notes → Tap the search bar.
• Now, type the note’s name or tag.

• Select the note → Tap the folder icon.
• Choose the folder to recover it.

Retrieve Missing Notes from the Mail.

Have you attached your notes to your email? If yes, the notes will disappear if you delete the account.

• Open Settings → Choose Mail.
• Tap Accounts.

• Choose Gmail → Toggle on Notes.
  If you have multiple Gmail accounts, do the same for each.

• Now go to the Notes folders and check if it recovers deleted notes.

Restore Deleted Notes on Your iPhone Using a Backup.

Your gadgets should be backed up from time to time. You can use Finder or iCloud backup to do this. If you think that an important note of yours is left in the backup, then you can easily restore it.

You can use up third party apps like Fone, iMyFone, and PhoneRescue to recover lost notes from iTunes file.

Can you Recover Shared Notes?

If you are the owner of the note and then delete it after sharing it, the person you shared will not be able to see it in their Notes app. You can get it back from the deleted box. But only you.

If you’ve shared and you delete it, it’s taken from your Notes app, but it’s not included in Recently Deleted. It is not taken from the notice of the owner or any other participant. To open this note again, you have to click on the link given to you by the owner.

FAQs

By using these simple methods you can quickly recover deleted notes on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, but it also happens that your Apple Notes are not synced between iPhone and Mac. Your notes will disappear. If your iPhone has any errors in iOS, update your iPhone.