Can I restore Notes from my iPhone backup to my iPod Touch?

Question

Hi folks
I regularly backed up my company iPhone contents to iCloud (wifi), including Notes. I have now given up my company phone but had some personal Notes on it. Is there any way that I might be able to get specifically at the iCloud backup of Notes and restore it my personal iPod?
I don't have the laptop any more which I was manually backing up the iPhone too - new job!
No point doing backups that you can't get at to restore, huh? Lesson learnt!
When I log in to iCloud, it shows the standard apps but there is nothing there - no data at all. I'm assuming that's ebcause I never used the iCloud versions of those apps (if that is actually different!).
When I try to enable iCloud on my iPod, it asks me to create an @icloud.com email address, even while Settings knows the normal email associated with my Apple id, which it shows under Settings>>iCloud>>Account.
I would really be grateful for help; I'm looking to retrieve interview notes that I had made on the iPhone .
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you kept notes in iCloud, you should be able to access them at iCloud.com > notes on any computer.
If however those notes aren't there and you wish to try restoring from an old back up, you may find results are hit and miss and the process of trying isn't all that straight forward.
The difficulty in restoring iCloud data from a back up is that the back up is older than the current version on iCloud and anything that is restored gets removed again when an iCloud sync occurs. I have previously suggested ways to recover contacts, calendars etc, and other users have confirmed that they work, as such I am making the following suggestions to recover lost notes, but please note, as yet success is unconfirmed.
Recovering your notes is quite time consuming, you may wish not to save all your notes to save some time, if they are not of importance.
Ensure the device is connected to your local network.
Start the restore from iCloud back up.
Allow the devices settings to restore (watch for the confirmation of completion).
As the apps begin to restore pull the connection to your router WAN port (the one that goes to the telephone point).
Wait for the time out confirmation.
Open the 'Notes' app, and open your first note (assuming your deleted notes have now been restored).
Select the share option at the foot of the screen (rectangle with arrow) and choose mail.
Send the email to yourself (If they won't send, save them to draft)
Repeat steps 7 & 8, until you have copied all the notes you wish to save to email.
Reconnect the router to the internet and let the restore process complete.
Navigate to settings > iCloud and make sure 'Notes' syncing is enabled.
Open the 'Notes' app, check that iCloud notes have reverted to how they were before starting the restore.
Open the 'Mail' app and open the first email you sent yourself and copy the text you want in the note.
Open the 'Notes' app and create a new note in the iCloud, paste the text you copied.
Go to iCloud.com on a computer and check that the note has synced to iCloud.
Repeat steps 12, 13 & 14 until you have recovered all your notes.
May I suggest that you carry out a back up to iTunes before you try anything, that way should things become even worse, you can at least restore back to where you are now.