How to Retrieve Notes from iCloud

The notes app on your iPhone or iPad benefits you a lot, and you may write down many important events on your notes. But have you ever faced the situation that you lost your important notes due to delete them by mistakes or destroy your devices. So what should you do when you lost notes. Fortunately, this article lists the 2 best ways for you to teach you how to retrieve notes from iCloud. You can learn to restore your notes in these ways following this article.

• Part 1. How to restore notes from iCloud to iPhone/iPad
• Part 2. How to retrieve notes from iCloud backup selectively

Part 1: How to restore notes from iCloud to iPhone/iPad

For most users, retrieving notes from iCloud on your devices directly may be the most convenient way for you to restore something important on your iPhone or iPad. Of course, iCloud provides an easy and reliable backup solution for those Apple users who want to back up their data on their devices wirelessly and automatically. However, you need to know you should reset your iPhone first. That means you must erase all contents and settings on your devices. In fact, iCloud doesn't back up data already in iCloud. Therefore, before you restore your notes from iCloud on your devices, make sure the deleted or lost notes are on your previous backup. Now here are the basic steps of how to retrieve notes from iCloud to iPhone or iPad.

Step 1. Open your iPhone or iPad and search for "Settings" icon on the main screen. Then tap "Settings" and go to Settings screen.

Step 2. Then slide your screen to find "General" icon. Tap on "General" in the Settings screen.

Step 3. Now you are allowed to reset your device by tapping "Reset". Then tap "Erase all Contents and Settings" to begin resetting your iPhone or iPad.

Step 4. You may need to wait for a few moments. After your device finishing the resetting process, you are allowed to tap on "Restore from iCloud Backup".

Step 5. Now you are able to see the backups on your iCloud. You can tap "Show all backups" to see all the backups. And then choose the iCloud Backup account that has the deleted notes you needed and then download what you want. Be patient and wait for the process being completed. And you are successfully in retrieving notes form iCloud.

Part 2: How to retrieve notes from iCloud backup selectively

As you see, the way retrieving notes from iCloud on your devices directly must reset your device first. When you don't want to erase all contents and settings on your devices to restore what you want from iCloud, maybe you need a powerful tool to help you retrieve notes from iCloud backup selectively. iPhone Data Recovery is a wonderful software which is very recommended to you. It provides you three recovery modes for you to retrieve the lost or deleted files on your iPhone or iPad. With the assistant of iPhone Data Recovery, you are able to retrieve and export your lost data from any iOS devices, including the latest version like iPhone X and the oldest version like iPhone 4/3GS, iPad and iPod is also supported. What's more, it supports Windows and Mac, both Windows and Mac users can use iPhone Data Recovery to retrieve notes from iCloud easily. It provides the chance for you to find the lost data when your iPhone is destroyed. Not only notes, but also photos, contacts, call history, all of the data which have been saved on your devices and backed up can be retrieved with this software. Follow the steps below and begin to retrieve notes from iCloud.

Step 1. Download iPhone Data Recovery

First of all, download iPhone Data Recovery from the official website. Then install this software following the instructions on your computer.

Step 2. Connect devices to computer

After finishing the installation of iPhone Data Recovery, launch it on your computer. You can see the words "Please connect your iOS device to computer via USB cable" in the interface. And now you need to connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer as the word says.

Step 3. Enter then scanning mode

After your connection is linked, iPhone Data Recovery will detect your device automatically. Then click "Start Scan" to begin the scanning of your devices. If the version of your devices are iPhone 4 or 3GS, you need to download a plug-in first. Then follow the three steps which is showed up in the interface to enter the scanning mode.

Step 4. Check the scanning result

The process of the scanning mode will end in a few minutes. When it is finished, you can see the scanning result of your backup files and deleted files in the window. You are allowed to check the detailed information of these files by selecting it from the left list. As it mentioned above, it enables you to recover deleted music, photos, messages, call logs, and more.

Step 5. Begin retrieving notes from iCloud

Now choose the notes you want to retrieve, and then click "Recover" to retrieve notes from iCloud. Then choose the output folder to save these files in the pop-up interface. At last, click "Recover" to begin the process of retrieving.

Conclusion

The two ways we mentioned in this article can help you retrieve notes from iCloud are really easy and convenient to use. If you don't want to download any additional software on your computer or phone, you can choose to retrieve what you want directly on your devices with iCloud. In this way you should reset your devices first. If you don't like this method, you can choose to download the best recovery tool to retrieve notes from iCloud. Hope you can gain something helpful in this article.