Lost notes app

You’re asking about lost notes, and not a lost (deleted) Notes app as this thread was discussing.

Lost notes (your case) are an entirely different situation from a deleted app (this thread).

Please start your own thread in this topic.

And please tap or click on the following blue-text link for what Apple suggests doing here, if that’s not already all been tried >

If you're missing notes on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

If you’ve deleted it, click lr tap on the following link to learn how to restore it > Delete built-in Apple apps from the Home screen on your iOS 14 or iPadOS device or Apple Watch - Apple Support

The same thing happened to me a couple of days ago. I've searched all over to either find the missing Notes or find advice that worked. So far, no luck. My Notes are not in Recently Deleted or apparently anywhere else including iCloud. com, Gmail, my Google account, other iOS devices, and so forth. The one place I've not yet looked is on my MacBook where I'm hopeful my Notes can be restored from Time Machine back ups. Interestingly, there are four notes remaining on my iPad and in iCloud storage, but I had a couple of hundred Notes now gone.

I would accept the idea that I clumsily deleted them myself but how I could have been so thorough by accident escapes me.

Anybody know what's going on here?