This is a late reply, but normally when there's conflict between two versions of the same note, Evernote does either of the following: - saves both notes, one as the original note, the other as a copy in a different notebook, usually named something like "conflicted note - date/time". - saves both note contents in the same (original) note, with a divider in between. The first case happens when the conflict occurs in the desktop version, and the second case happens when the conflict occurs in the iPhone or iPad version. So in the OP's case, since the older version note from iPhone synced to the server first, and the conflict must have occurred when the newer version on desktop tried to sync, it's likely that the first case would have happened. This is based on my experience, and I haven't had issues with sync overriding my newer version of notes.