Recover Data on iOS Device: Retrieve Lost Notes after Updating to iOS 10

“The old iOS version one my iPhone doesn’t work very well now, so i update my iPhone with iOS 10. Actually it runs more faster, but i couldn’t find my notes, any way can help me retrieve my lost notes after updating to iOS 10?”

iOS 10 have been released for several month, so many people have updated their iPhone with iOS 10 with many different reasons. We have to say iOS 10 runs more faster and can make us enjoy more new features, but it may also make us lost some iPhone data after updating iOS 10. So in order to save our loss, we’ll introduce you some ways about how to retrieve lost notes after updating to iOS 10.

Follow below steps and choose the suitable one you need.

Retrieve Lost Notes from iTunes Backup

Before updating your iPhone with iOS 10, many guide will suggest us to do backup in iTunes or iCloud, when we lost some iPhone data, we can restore them from our backups. Now we will see how to retrieve lost notes from iTunes backup.

Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC, click iPhone image icon. Go to Files--Summary, then you can see all your backup files on the left side bar. Now click “Restore Backup” on the right page, and confirm with “Restore”.

Remark: we’ll need to restore the whole folder, so some of our iPhone data may be overwritten, so choose the latest backup is necessary.

Retrieve Lost Notes from iCloud Backup

Now we’ll see how to retrieve lost notes from iCloud backup, and please notes, it will need us to erase all content and settings before restoring.

Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--General--Erase All Content and Settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.

Retrieve Lost Notes with iRefone

If you haven’t done any backup, or you want to restore them selectively from your backups and don’t want to erase all content and settings, you can come to iRefone for help.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can recover as well as transfer and backup more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages, WhatsApp messages ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows you to preview them before restoring. And it can be compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.

Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.

Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “Note” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.