Possible to access/restore past versions of Notes in iCloud?

Assuming you have 2 devices, let's say an iPhone and iPad, there is only one thing you can do:

1. delete something on your iPhone
2. as soon as you notice, enable airplane mode on your iPad
3. unlock iPad & open notes
4. copy note to somewhere else
5. turn off airplane mode
6. copy note back to notes

Other than that, there unfortunately doesn't seem to be anything you can do.

Whoo hoo. Found a great solution for this issue in this question

Notes.app - how to access history?

You can use Time Machine to recover notes by restoring the 3 .sqlite files in

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/ Quit Notes.app Restore those 3 files If you use iCloud, disconnect from Wifi so the notes aren't synced from your iCloud devices when you re-open Notes.app Re-open Notes.app

So just make sure your time machine is up to date and that you open notes regularly on your Mac.

Short answer is no :(. That is, unless you can get to the note before iCloud updates it, but that would not be much time at all.

Not that they are in the same class, but one can do that with Time Machine. It allows one to go back through, and it has saved and kept track of the changes that have been made to documents.

This isn't an ideal solution, but when you have notes that you absolutely need to recover, this will do. I was able to recover partial aspects of the note I had written a day later.

1. Open Terminal

2. Run:

   cd ~/Library
   grep -r "[Some string you remember from your note]" ./
   

3. A lot will come up. Apen any file that has a match in TextEdit (you can ignore most of them i.e the ones that are from the Calendar app etc as your note probably will not be there)

4. When I did this my notes were in several pieces scattered across the file. Try to piece together the different chunks, pasting the pieces in their own new text files and saving them as .html
5. Open the html files in your browser - you should be able to see the content
6. Piece together your content

Again, not ideal, but this just saved me on a note that got wiped, but really needed!