Iphone 6 notes gone

Question

Hi,
I've had my Iphone 6 for about two months or so now, with no problems. But today, to my dismay I found out that all my notes (roughly 150) had disappeared. Now I've tried everything in the book to get them back and I will display a list of what I've done to retrieve them. Today is Monday the 24th of November and the last time I recall checking my notes was on the 21st of November. There's no reason for these notes to disappear into the abyss.
Anyway, here's the list:
Firstly, I turned off my phone and left it for a few minutes - nothing.
Secondly, I restarted the phone; holding both the home and the main button - again, nothing.
Thirdly, I checked in Settings >  Notes and it just said On My iPhone with the blue tick. Now I researched a bit and checked Settings> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and went into my email ( Gmail) and Notes was never turned ( not green). I know this is naive of me, but iCloud as had the same; Notes wasn't saved (not green).
Now, I clicked on the Notes to turn it green in the GMAIL> MAIL, CONTACT ETC. Still no sign of my notes.
I wrote a few notes to maybe reenact how I could possibly delete all notes at once, no such method is possible. One must simply do one by one or by swiping to the left each time.
Now I found the WONDERSHARE DR.FONE FOR IOS. I downloaded it without hassle and did what the video on youtube showed me. I patiently waited while it scanned. At the end of this ordeal, only three notes appeared. THE ONES I WROTE IN BEFORE. Which annoyed me the most was that there were pictures from over a year ago that popped up? Yet no notes bothered to display itself.
The last thing I did do was I was on the iOS 8.0.1 or something along those lines, now those of you who know that this software had bugs and the lot. Perhaps this was the case? Anyway, I downloaded the iOS 8.1.1 in the hope of getting the notes back and of course, nothing again.
Look I've tried a lot, but I'm willing to try more and would be deeply appreciative if you could give me some advice.I'm deeply sorry for whoever is reading this. I'm trying to be as descriptive as possible in order to get my notes back and Maybe, someone out there might have the knowledge of discovering how to get them back. Thank you.
Regards,
Oscar
Oscar

Answer 1

Same thing is happening to me on both iPad and iPhone after iOS 6.1 upgrade!  In fact, I noticed that if I try to start a new note, as soon as I minimize the keyboard and it starts to synch, the note disappears.  I can't even create a new note and keep it!  Same thing happening on both devices, so I think it's a bug.  I was able to find my old notes though, just by luck.  You'll have to log into a computer rather than your device though, and don't ask me why.  Here's how to find:
1) go to settings on your device and look at Notes. 
2) look at what it lists as "default account". That's your email account where it should have saved copies.
3) log onto that account on a computer.  Can't see it on your device - at least I couldn't.
4) in that email account, you should see a folder called Notes.  In there, you'll find your saved notes.  (Again, for some reason, this folder doesn't show up in my email folders on either mobile device.)
I'd be interested to know if you also experience the same problem creating new notes.