This videos shows how you can recover your iPhone notes if they randomly disappeared from the Notes app but you can still search for them in the search bar. I explain this at the beginning of the video.
If you are facing the same problem then you should be able to get your notes back by following this tutorial.
Simplified steps:
1. Use a 'Backup Manager' software (iMazing or iPhone Backup Extractor) to copy the 'com.apple.notes' (or 'AppDomainGroup-group.com.apple.notes') folder from one of your old backups to the PC.
2. Navigate the 'group.com.apple.notes' folder on the Mac and delete the files there. NOTE: THIS WILL DELETE ALL THE NOTES THAT ARE ALREADY ON YOUR MAC SO MAKE A COPY OF THESE NOTES FIRST.
3. Copy and paste the content of the 'AppDomainGroup-group.com.apple.notes' folder you obtained form the Backup Manager into the 'group.com.apples.notes' folder on the Mac.
4. Open the Notes app on the Mac and you should see your notes (at least some of them but if you don't then don't worry, this is not the final step)
5. You should see a 'Backups' folder in the ''AppDomainGroup-group.com.apple.notes'' folder you got form the Backup Manger (THIS IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 'NoteStore.sqlite' YOU SEE ON THE SAME LEVEL AS THE 'Backups' folder.
6. In there you will find a file called 'NoteStore.sqlite'. Check the size of the file to make sure that it has some data in it.
7. Now from the 'group.com.apple.notes' folder delete the files with the names 'NoteStore.sqlite', 'NoteStore.sqlite-shm', and 'NoteStore.sqlite-wal' and copy and paste the 'NoteStore.sqlite', from the 'Backups' folder in here and open the Notes app on the Mac again. You should now see all your notes in the app that were on your iPhone (ASSUMING THEY WERE BACKED UP IN THE BACKUP).
NOTE: There may be easier and less complicated ways to do this but I have not found any yet. From what I know this is the only working method.
Any questions, feel free to contact me. I will try to get back as soon as I can.
iMazing:
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iPhone Backup Extractor:
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More on recovering data from the DB Browser for SQLite:
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Reddit:
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