This morning I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 14.2. After the upgrade, all my Notes are gone. I do not backup to the iCloud, and the last time was via iTunes (aka a long time ago since the app no longer exists). Is there anything I can do to restore my Notes to pre-upgrade? In over a dozen years upgrading iOS, I have never experienced such an issue so never thought to backup before upgrading. Guess my ticket was up.
iPhone XS Max, iOS 12
Hello scg2020,
Thanks for that info and for choosing the Apple Support Communities. If we understand correctly, you are unable to find your notes on your iPhone after updating. To help with this, please see if the steps in this Apple resource help with your situation and then contact Apple directly if you need any further assistance.
If you're missing notes on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Cheers!
If you do not set either iCloud or your email provider to host your Notes and use purely “on my phone” Notes, or calendar, or contacts, then you must must backup the phone weekly and certainly just before a major process like an update or upgrade.
Same risk if you lost the phone.
This didn't help. There is no recently deleted folder.
After upgrading to iOS 14.2, all my Notes are missing
