Lost Your Notes or Deleted Notes Default Account?
YOU ACCIDENTALLY DELETED 'APPLE NOTES' DEFAULT MAIL ACCOUNT... OR JUST LOST ALL YOUR NOTES?
Okay so after an hour on apple support chat and getting no where at all... this is what I did:
Firstly... I'm assuming you backed up your iPhone to iTunes... otherwise STOP READING NOW... you're doomed.
Secondly... you need your laptop or desktop and I'm talking about a Mac so if you're on a PC... you might still be doomed?
Begin...
>>>DO NOT CONNECT YOUR iPhone<<< Now launch iTunes. Go to MENU - iTunes - Preferences.
Click on Devices. There you will see your latest Device backups. Top of the list will be your most recent backup. This is the one you'll have to back up from... so if there's anything on your phone after this date that you don't want to loose... your doomed.
(But you might not be if you can copy it and email it to yourself).
Now... tick the box 'Prevent iPods blah, blah... from syncing automatically'... DO THIS!!!!
DO THIS BIT NEXT: Get your iPhone. Go to settings - and select Cellular... REMEMBER WHERE THIS IS!
Remember also... how to turn off 'Celular Data' and 'Enable 3G'... practise doing this a couple of times!
Go back to settings, select 'WiFi'... practise turning that off also.
Now then... you can't turn these off now because the RESTORE will turn them back on again! You NEED an internet connection in order to complete the RESTORE FROM BACKUP... so it's no good turning that off either.
Basically... you've got to prevent your iPhone from connecting to the Default Account... where all your Notes were... and are no more! If it does connect it will wipe all the notes you just restored from backup off your phone and... you'll be doomed again.
THIS WORKED IN MY CASE... but my WiFi signal is not brilliant (and it's a pain trying to turn the router off as it's hidden in the wall behind the telly)! If this doesn't work first time, either you're an OAP with the reactions of a snail with arthritis (I told you to practise that bit didn't I!)... or you'll need a trusty assistant standing by the router ready to turn it off when you shout "NOW!"
Okay here goes...
Step 1) Connect your iPhone to iTunes, wait for it to show up there.
Step 2) Go to the Summary tab - Backups and hit 'Restore Backup'.
Step 3) Keep an eye on your phone... it'll say 'restoring'... wait for it... then you'll get a little pop up thing in iTunes, ignore that... then the phone will reboot.
Step 4) PAY ATTENTION! The apple logo appears... wait for it... progress bar appears... get ready... phone will buzz (if you've got vibration on)... get ready... home screen appears... SHOUT "NOW"!!!
Step 5) QUICKLY!!! Dissconnect your phone from the USB cable or dock... too slow man! Quickly access settings and TURN ALL THOSE THINGS YOU PRACTISED... OFF!!!
DO NOT OPEN NOTES before you do this or... you're doomed again.
Now we're back in the game...
Step 6) Open Notes... there's all your old notes "I know you"!
Step 7) Open the first note (I hope you don't want them all... cos you'll be here for ages) press the little box with an arrow (or forward icon) select 'copy'.
Step 8) Open Mail... write a new email... paste your Note there! Keep doing this untill you've got all your Notes pasted there... thensend the email to yourself. JUST DO THAT NOW... before you do anything else!
Clean up your iPhone...
Step 9) Go to Settings on your iPhone, go to Mail, Contacts, Calenders... select iCloud and turn Notes ON. Yeah get an iCloud account, it's free. Forget gmail.com man!
Step 10) Go Back to Settings, select Notes... make Default Account... iCloud. 'It'll say 'delete all notes?' Well they aren't there anyway fool... so **** yeah!
Step 11) Now you can turn all those WiFi and Cellular things back on again.
Get on your desktop/laptop...
Step 12) Go to Finder - Apple Logo - System Preferences... hit the iCloud icon. Tick Notes ON.
Step 13) Open Notes, open you're email that you sent yourself... copy and make lots of new Notes!
Get yer iPhone...
Step 14) ... there's all your Notes synced to your iPhone by those nice people at Apple iCloud!
Then ask yourself this question... why does it have to be this complicated?
Good luck! If not... you're doomed.
Hello Lone,
If your note is gone from iCloud.com there is only a few ways to possibly recover it.
The first things I would check is a iCloud Backup, a iTunes Backup, or a 3rd party email that may have contained the note. To restore from a iCloud or iTunes backup follow
HT1766. This article explains how to restore a device from either back up.
Note if you have backed up since the note went missing, you will not have the note on the backup. Make sure you do not back up if trying to restore from a back up as this will
back up the content without the note.
To get to the "Set up assistant" on an iOS device, you must go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content and Settings. Once the phone restarts, you will be at the "Set up
Assistant"
Gmail emails are very commmon sources for notes and you may have been adding them to the gmail notes without even knowing it.
Best Regards,
Mariya Sharapova
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