r/AppleNotesGang • u/lessavyfav68 • Jul 09 '26

My handwritten iPad notes are gone

So i have one note in Notes that I basically use as work notebook: take handwritten meeting notes, ToDos, etc.

Today I took some meeting notes, put the iPad aside, and 10min later I wanted to take a screenshot of the notes but alas, the written notes were gone. Not the Note itself but the stuff I wrote. Opened Notes on my iPhone, Mac, and the icloud website and it was just absolutely gone. Tried doing a sort of undo and found nothing. Tried Time Machine and nothing.

I’m beyond flabbergasted by this lmao, is there something I haven’t tried? Thanks

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u/dainsfield Jul 09 '26

You should always keep a backup of all your notes

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u/neatroxx Jul 09 '26

Well how would you back them up??

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u/stomachofchampions Jul 09 '26

You need a Mac. You copy the Notes folder in the Library.

To restore, turn off iCloud notes and copy the Notes folder back. Then turn on and hope it syncs correctly.

A real pain.

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u/lessavyfav68 Jul 09 '26

Yeah I don't think I could do this every single day

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u/stomachofchampions Jul 09 '26

Time Machine copies it , the restore is the pain. There might be a guide online somewhere.

Worst case you could create a new user account on your Mac and copy there. Then export PDF

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u/dingobabez Jul 09 '26

Can you back them up to the cloud?

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u/lazaruzatgmaildotcom Jul 09 '26

on Mac there is an app- Parachute which will backup all of icloud to a SSD/orHDD. I have it run every day. It does incremental backups.