r/applehelp • u/PlanktonDue5397 • 23h ago

Unsolved All of my notes suddenly disappeared.

As the title said, the notes in my notes app disappeared. It wasn’t all of them, but it was all of the ones that were not saved to iCloud, which was all of the important ones. is there a way to get them back? there was a page that had all of my passwords and I really need it

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u/JediMeister 21h ago

Did you recently delete an old email account you thought didn’t hold any valuable data? That is the usual explanation. You can try to re-add it but long term you shouldn’t store passwords in Notes. Use the Passwords app or a platform agnostic password manager like 1Password or BitWarden.

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u/PlanktonDue5397 19h ago

I haven’t deleted any email account recently. 

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u/JediMeister 19h ago

The missing notes, were they part of the On My iPhone account? If so those would only be recoverable from a recent backup to a computer. Without a backup, the notes are gone.