If, like me, you have deleted a note on your iPhone and want to restore it you can find it by searching the sqlite3 notes databases contained within your iOS backups. Be sure to do this before reconnecting the device, as this would erase the backup. You'll need - to be comfortable using the command line - to be using a mac (although this would w…

Find notes in an iOS backup

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup/ -name ca3bc056d4da0bbf88b5fb3be254f3b7147e639c -exec sqlite3 {} "select zcontent from znotebody where zcontent like '%Music%';" \; | sed -e "s/<div>/\\
/g" -e "s/<[^>]*>//g" "-e s/&nbsp;/ /g"