I do not have a "Recently Deleted" folder on iphone notes folder

I appear to have a similar issue to Charlotte0718. In my case all of my notes disappeared after updating my iPhone7 over the weekend. None of the online and apple-suggested fixes appear to work. In fact, sorry to add, apple are happy to leave users on their own with this issue. Pity because notes is a handy thing to have but it hardly makes sense adding notes if apple will make them disappear! I suspect, Charlotte0718, that you didn't actually delete your notes. However, did you update your device recently?

I do have to say something here. I’m late replying so again sorry if it’s already been said. I had the same issue and what I realized is that everything hadn’t fully transferred over to my new phone. Maybe your notes issue is different but it sounds exactly the same as mine. What happened to mine was I wasn’t fully aware that my phone had to stay plugged in charging besides being connected to WiFi. Maybe it’ll help you i dont know. But thought I’d give my example

Charlotte0718, the reason I was asking if you had updated your device was to establish if the notes disappeared immediately after an update. This is what occurred on my device (iPhone7) whereby I updated and all notes just disappeared.

I'll keep you posted should I come up with a fix. Apple are no help, I agree.

Thanks kerrifromzanesville! As a matter of interest, did you recover any lost notes?

Charlotte0718 wrote:

All the research says, to go to a "recently deleted" folder.

It's good that you did the research!

However, the existence of a "Recently Deleted" folder depends completely on where your notes were housed.

If you used iCloud to contain your notes, then you would in fact have a "Recently Deleted" folder. So it certainly sounds like you kept your notes somewhere else. Perhaps the place you housed your notes has its own backup method.