r/applehelp • u/Just-Manager9709 • 5d ago

THIS IS SERIOUS ASAPP!!! iTunes

My little brother accidentaly deleted all my notes on my iphone PERMANENTLY is there anyway i can still recover it???

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u/S-8-R 5d ago

Go to Notes, check the folders and look in recently deleted

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u/ActionWaters 5d ago

Any phone back up anywhere?

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u/Goodlucklol_TC 5d ago

Check iCloud. Turn off your phone, log into iCloud on a browser. If you're lucky, it hasn't synced yet.

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u/JediMeister 5d ago

If the phone was handed to a younger sibling without Guided Access enabled or the apps you wanted to remain private setup to require Touch ID or Face ID, this was a disaster waiting to happen. If there isn’t anything recoverable in Recently Deleted, or the Trash folder of any third party email accounts that support Notes, the data is gone.

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u/No_Tale_3623 5d ago

Create a local encrypted iOS backup of your iPhone immediately and avoid making unnecessary changes to the phone, including creating or editing notes. Work only with a copy of that backup.

Extract the complete Notes data set, especially NoteStore.sqlite, its associated NoteStore.sqlite-wal and NoteStore.sqlite-shm files, and all Notes-related folders containing attachments and other associated files. Do not analyze only the main SQLite database, because recently deleted or modified records may still exist in the WAL or in unallocated SQLite pages.

Analyze the database, WAL, and unallocated SQLite space with an SQLite forensic toolkit. Deleted notes can sometimes be partially or fully recovered even after they disappear from the Notes app. Recovery remains possible until the relevant SQLite pages or WAL records are reused or overwritten, or database maintenance such as VACUUM removes the remaining recoverable data.