notes password forgotten

I forgot my notes password, and could not remember it at all. They contain important stuff and I was always used to open them using face-id. Is there anyway I can recover the password for the current locked notes?


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Posted on Aug 31, 2022 3:47 AM

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Posted on Aug 31, 2022 5:14 PM

From the article below.


To unlock a note, you need to enter the password that it's locked with. If you forgot the password, Apple can't help you regain access to your locked notes. You can create a new password, but this won’t give you access to your old notes. A new password will let you password protect any notes that you create going forward with the new password.


Notes - How to lock on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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Aug 31, 2022 5:14 PM in response to baker109

From the article below.


To unlock a note, you need to enter the password that it's locked with. If you forgot the password, Apple can't help you regain access to your locked notes. You can create a new password, but this won’t give you access to your old notes. A new password will let you password protect any notes that you create going forward with the new password.


Notes - How to lock on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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Aug 31, 2022 5:24 PM in response to baker109


The password isn’t saved, it is used as the decryption key to access the data.


Which means no key, no access, no bypass, no backdoor. Apple used robust encryption.


Right now, without that password, you’re no different from an attacker trying to access the data in that note.



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