How to Recover Deleted and Lost Notes from iPhone X/8

Recover Deleted Notes on iPhone X/8

By Selena KomezUpdated on May 18, 2018

[Summary]Carelessly delete some important notes on your iPhone X/8(Plus) and don’t know how to get them back? This tutorial will offer you three safe and secure methods to restore deleted notes on iPhone X and iPhone 8(Plus), as well as iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 6/6 Plus in iOS 11 or lower.

The Notes App on your iPhone or iPad is a very convenient tool for managing and organizing day to day activities. However, there are several reasons why notes disappeared from your iPhone X/iPhone 8(Plus) or other device. Some of the most common include:
– Accidental deletion of notes without noticing.
– Data loss including notes caused by failure of iOS upgrade or iOS jailbreak.
– Wrong setting of Email account you use to sync notes.
– Restoring iPhone to factory reset causes data loss including notes.
-Virus attacked.

Why It Is Possible to Recover Deleted Notes on iOS Device
Some people may wonder if it is possible to recover the notes from iPhone even without backup files. The answer is yes. The primary reason is because of the device doesn’t actually delete the Note, it only removes the file marker to make room for a new file. Therefore, if you get the help of some data recovery tools, you can easily recover the missing note.

It is always annoying when notes which contain important information all of us don’t want to lose. When you are encountered with such a problem, what to do to recover lost notes from your iPhone device? This article will introduce you how to recover deleted iPhone notes in 4 effective ways.

4 Methods to Recover Deleted Notes from iPhone X and iPhone 8(Plus)

Part 1: Recover Deleted Notes on iPhone X/8 from “Recently Deleted” Folder

If your device has iOS 9 or later iOS version(iOS 10 or iOS 11), you’ll find a Recently Deleted folder in you Notes App. If your notes on iPhone have been deleted for less than 30 days, you can recover the deleted notes on iPhone from “Recently Deleted” folder:

Go to Notes app > Recently Deleted > Tap Edit > Select the notes or Move all > Tap Move to another folder.

recover recently deleted notes on iphone X/8

Note: If you are running with iOS 8 or older iOS version, you can’t recover deleted notes on iPhone with this method.

Part 2: Directly Recover Deleted Notes from iPhone X/8 without Backup

iPhone Data Recovery is a professional iOS data recovery tool which is able to recover deleted notes from your iPhone X/8(Plus) directly. Besides, this tool is a great helper to extract and restore lost notes from iTunes or iCloud backup. And this process can be used to recover deleted or lost contacts, text messages, iMessages, calendars, photos, videos, call logs, WhatsApp messages on iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 6S/6S Plus, iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 5S/5C/5, iPad/iPod devices as well.

Step 1. Download and Install iPhone Data Recovery
The program has two versions: one for Windows computer and one for Mac OS X. Choose the right version and install the program on your computer. Launch it and link your iPhone to the PC via a USB cable. And select “Recover from iOS Device” to start.

iPhone data recovery hone page

Step 2. Start to Scan iPhone 8 for Deleted Notes
Next, select file types you want to recover. Here choose “Note” and click “Next” to go on.

select notes to scan

Then you will enter the scan interface, wait patiently until the app find and display all your data after finished scanning the iPhone device. It may take a while, just depends on the number of files on iPhone.

scan iPhone for deleted notes

Step 3. Preview and Selectively Recover Deleted Notes from iPhone X/8
Once it done, you can click “Note” & “Note Attachments” files on the left side to preview all your notes data one by one. Mark the notes you want and click “Recover” button to get all of them back at once.

recover notes from iPhone X/8 directly

Part 3: Restore Deleted Notes from iPhone X/8 via iTunes Backup

To restore deleted notes on iPhone via iTunes without easing the current data, iPhone Data Recovery is what you need.

Step 1. Scan the iTunes Backup File
To perform this mode, you must ensure that you’ve synced your iPhone to iTunes previously. Click the “Recover from iTunes Backup“, you will see a list of iTunes backup files. Choose the latest one from your iPhone and click “Scan”.

select iTunes backup file

Step 2. Restore Notes Data from iTunes Backup
After scanning, all contents will be displayed as well-organized categories like: notes, contacts, message, photos, and more. If you just want to recover deleted notes, you can select “Note” & “Note Attachments” category, and click “Recover” to recover the deleted notes on the computer.

restore iPhone 8 deleted notes from iTunes backup

Part 4: Restore Deleted Notes from iPhone X/8 via iCloud Backup

Step 1. Download and Scan iCloud Backup
Choose “Recover from iCloud Backup”option after running the program on the computer. Then sign in your Apple ID. You’ll see the program showing all iCloud backup files in your account of a list.

Choose the one you want to extract to download it and click the ”Next” button.

download iCloud backup

After that, you can directly scan and extract the selected file types from the downloaded backup. Click”Next” after selecting the file type for scanning. For Notes recovery, you should click “Note” under the “Memo & Others” option.

select note file to scan

Note:Please keep your internet is connected during the process.

Step 2.Recover Deleted iPhone Nots from iCloud Backup
When the scanning stops, you can check notes data in the categories of “Note” & “Note Attachments“. Select the data you want and click on the “Recover” button to save them on the computer.

recover notes from iCloud

Part 5: How to Backup iPhone X/8 Safely

Fortunately for you, there is a better solution that can allow users to have more control over the restore process. This solution is backup iPhone as frequent as possible. iOS Data Backup & Restore tool that is designed to back up or restore your iOS data selectively. It provides you with a safe solution backup iOS device without iTunes/iCloud. More than 19 types of iOS data can be backup and restore,including notes, text messages, call logs, photos, contacts, WhatsApp messages, calendar, reminders, documents, etc,. More importantly, it could do the backup & restore job for your iOS device without overwriting your current data.

backup iPhone data to PC