notes password forgotten

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. 

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.

You can only open locked notes with the password you used to lock them