Yosemite Contact Notes Missing From iPhone iOS8

Question

After the nightmare of Mail crashes, and still not being able to get Calendar to work with Exchange calendars that work fine with Mavericks, iOS7 and iOS8 devices, I discovered yet another bug and new thing to worry about. Not sure if Yosemite or iOS 8.1 are the issue here.
I have someone's bank routing and account info saved in the Notes of their contact card on my MacBook Pro. Before my iOS8 upgrade the info was in the Notes of their contact on the iPhone as well.
I had to get to the bank on Friday to make an urgent payment and got there only to find that the Notes section of the contact card is blank on the iPhone. It was a wasted trip and caused lots of problems for people as I could not send them money in time. Coming back home I found the info is still in the laptop's contacts. I made changes to it just to force an update. But it is still not showing up despite rebooting the iPhone. I do see the info in iCloud so it appears as if the problem is iOS 8.1 Contacts.
Perhaps we are expected to go through thousands of contacts and check if each one's notes were synced.
One, looking for a solution. Two, wondering if others see the same problem.
Thanks.
Imran

Answer 1

Notes are no longer synced through iTunes.  I had the same problem and found this out by chatting with Apple Support.  Notes are synced only through iCloud and IMAP (ex. gmail).   I don't want my notes in the web, and  I could not find any free app that syncs without the cloud.   So although very clunky, I put my notes in Contacts.  Yes, it's clunky.  First name is the note's title and the last name is Notes.  Horrible.  At least I can sync through iTunes without external servers.
The following post helped me find my notes in my computer.
pandorazfruitcakeFeb 17, 2014 1:55 AM Re: Mavericks Deleted My Notes
Re: Mavericks Deleted My Notesin response to Tazamaraz
I was in the same boat, losing my mind because none of the suggestions were working or helpful until I stumbled onto this one.  It refers to problems encountered while upgrading to Mountain Lion but the solution worked for recovering my notes..
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19068486#19068486
Robin Darroch wrote:
I had this problem - all the notes I wanted were "On My Mac", which vanished as soon as I upgraded (and weren't in the new Notes app either).  In the end, I had to find the files which Mountain Lion had failed to migrate to the new app, in the following location:
~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/Notes.mbox/
There was one folder containing a whole bunch of numbered folders inside that. Going through each of the numbered folders right down to the "Messages" folder inside each, I found one or more files of the name format "nnnnn.emlx" (where "n" is a numeral).  I copied all the .emlx files I found into a single (other) directory - as a backup in case something didn't work or I needed to do it again - then selected them all and dragged and dropped them onto the Notes app.
It's pretty poor form that the upgrade process doesn't reliably handle On My Mac notes, but at least it's not too difficult to recover.
Hope this works for others!