iPhone Notes Missing: How to Recover iPhone Notes That Are Disappeared?

One day when my day opened the Notes app on his iPhone, he found that a lot of his iPhone notes missing. So he asked me if I could do something to help get them back. He told me that he had not deleted them himself, so how did they get disappeared? Have you ever also found your notes were missing when you opened your Notes app? And still having no idea what had happened? Below I’ll explain to you why your notes have disappeared from your iPhone, where they’re hiding and how to get them back.



In fact, the notes on your iPhone are often synced to the cloud automatically, which is just like your email, contacts, and calendar do. When you sign up for an Apple ID using an email address, you use that email as the default account for syncing. All your notes, contacts, calendars and more are stored on a server that is tied to your email. When the notes disappear from your iPhone, they usually haven’t been deleted but stored on a server that is tied to your email address (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.). However your iPhone is no longer able to access them until you set up the email account again.

Find Missing iPhone Notes Via Email Settings

You can recover the missing Notes via email settings. You might have not realized that you had synced the notes off with their existing Gmail accounts. Therefore, once the Notes toggle setting is turned off on your iPhone, you will find your iPhone notes missing. Now follow below steps:

1 Go to Setting > Mail, Contacts and Calendars > Gmail.

2 Toggle Notes off. Notes have to be toggled off in settings to check if there is the notes folder in mail.

3 Go to all of your Gmail accounts and check if the notes are there.

Recover Missing iPhone Notes via iTunes Backup

If you have backed up your iPhone to iTunes, you can then recover iPhone notes using the iTunes backup.

1 Open your iTune sand click the iPhone icon.

2 Select the iTunes backup file that contains the deleted Notes and click “Restore Backup".

Note: Restoring a device using backup will overwrite the existing data on your iPhone, so make sure the backup you choose contains all your existing data, otherwise they will be lost.

Recover Missing iPhone Notes Via iCloud Backup

This is much alike restoring from iTunes backup, but there are some differences.

1 Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, choose your iPhone and then check the backup archives to see the date and size of its latest backup.

2 Go to Settings > General > Reset and choose“Erase all content and settings.”

3 From the Apps & Data screen, choose Restore from iCloud Backup, then sign in to iCloud.

4 Choose the iCloud backup file that contains the missing Notes.

Recover Missing iPhone Notes using iOS Data Recovery

If you happen to have no backup when you find your iPhone notes missing, you can still get them back by using a powerful data recovery app called iOS Data Recovery. This app enables you to recover not only notes but also almost everything on your iPhone. And here is how to recover iPhone notes using iOS Data Recovery.

1Start iOS Data Recovery after you install it on your computer.

2 Connect your iPhone to the computer via USB cable.

3 Choose the mode "Recover from iOS Device" and start to scan your iPhone.

4 Select deleted notes from the scanning results and click "Recover" to begin the recovery.