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Turn on Notes in your iCloud Settings , or make sure you use notes stored on your device. Notes accounts that sync from a third-party service such as Gmail or Yahoo won't include some Notes features and can't be locked.

If you're signed in to iCloud with a Managed Apple ID, you can't lock your notes.

Set up your notes password

The app is accessible with a quick swipe from the top of your screen, and, better yet, functions as a convenient place for storing quick notes, recent files, and clipboard information. The biggest advantage of this software is that it is very small and very reliable.

Before you can lock your notes, you need to create a password. Make sure you create a password that you can remember easily by giving yourself a password hint. If you access your iCloud notes on more than one Apple device, you'll use the same notes password to lock and unlock all of them. https://newcomputing.amebaownd.com/posts/18255758. If you forget your password, Apple can’t help you regain access to your locked notes, but you can create a new password to use for locking future notes.

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You can create a password on your device in Settings or in the Notes app. After you lock a note, it's automatically protected with your password on all of your devices. If you use Face ID or Touch ID to unlock notes on your other devices, you must enter your password, then enable Face ID or Touch ID on the device you're using.

If you enable Face ID or Touch ID for your notes password, it adds the encryption keys used to encrypt your notes to your keychain, which can be accessed with your device passcode. This means that anyone with your device passcode can access your locked notes. For maximum security, you can opt to not enable Face ID or Touch ID for your notes password.

Create a password in Settings

Go to Settings > Notes, then tap Password.
If you have multiple accounts, tap the account that you want to create a password for.
Enter a password, then give yourself a password hint. If your device supports it, enable Face ID or Touch ID.
Tap Done.

Create a password in Notes

Open Notes and go to a note that you want to lock.
Tap the More button , then tap Lock.
Enter a password, then give yourself a password hint. If your device supports it, enable Face ID or Touch ID.
Tap Done.

Use Notes password protection

Whether your note has an image, scanned document or list of important information, it's easy to keep it safe with password protection. You'll see a Lock icon next to each note that's locked. Until you enter your password, or use Face ID or Touch ID, you will only see the title and the last date on which the note was edited.

Lock a note

Open the note you want to lock.
Tap the More button.
Tap Lock.

When you lock your note, it will stay open and you'll see the Lock icon at the top of the screen. You can hide the note's contents when you tap the Lock icon .

Open a locked note

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Tap the locked note.
Tap View Note.
Use Face ID or Touch ID, or enter your password.

Your locked notes stay open for several minutes, making it easy for you to jump to another note, copy and paste information from other apps, and more. If you close the Notes app or your device goes to sleep, the note is locked again.

Remove a lock

Tap the locked note, then tap View Note.
Enter your password, use Face ID or use Touch ID.
Tap the More button .
Choose Remove.

When you remove a lock from a note, it's removed on all of the devices that you're signed in to with the same Apple ID.

You can only lock notes on your device and notes in iCloud. You can't lock notes that have PDFs, audio, video, Keynote, Pages or Numbers documents, or notes that use IMAP to sync with accounts, such as Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. You also can't password-protect notes that you share with someone else. If you want to stop sharing a note, open the note, tap the Add People button , then tap Stop Sharing.

Change your Notes password

You need your previous Notes password in order to change your Notes password. Here's how:

Go to Settings > Notes, then tap Password.
Select the Notes account you want to change, then tap Change Password.
Enter your old password, then enter a new password and password hint.

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If you don't know your previous Notes password, you can reset it, but it won’t give you access to your old notes. A new password will let you password-protect any notes you create going forwards with the new password.

If you forget your notes password

To unlock a note, you need to enter the password that it's locked with. If you forget 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 forwards with the new password.

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If you have multiple passwords, you won't be able to tell which password you should use when you look at your Notes list. When you open a note locked by your old password but you enter your current password, you'll see an alert that you entered the wrong password with a hint for your old password. If you enter the correct old password, you get the option to update that note's password to your current one.

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Go to Settings > Notes, then tap Password.
Select the Notes account you want to change, then tap Reset Password.
Enter your Apple ID password, then then tap OK.
Tap Reset Password again.
Enter your new password and password hint. Tap Done.