Accessing locked Notes: neither password nor face ID work

Is it STILL on your “old” phone or did you [pre-maturely] erase it ???

The normal transfer routine leaves everything on your old device for just this eventuality.

The short answer is that unless you can remember the password used to encrypt the note … it will remain encrypted for eternity.

The “thought” is if your FaceID opened the note on your old phone … maybe it STILL will. 🤞

When you lock a note on an iPhone you are warned that if you forget the passcode you will not be able to access the note again, and you were given the opportunity to add a passcode hint. If you didn’t heed these warnings you are pretty much out of luck; the only possible way out is to guess the passcode. You get unlimited guesses.

Face ID is a shortcut to entering the passcode; it is not a replacement for the passcode.