still can't find not provided keywords in google analytics - what am i missing?

one more thing, Search Console only keeps 16 months of data. if you want longer history for year on year comparisons, export it regularly or pipe it into Looker Studio or a sheet. learnt that one the hard way when a client asked for a three-year view.

You're not missing anything, they're just gone. Google stopped passing organic search terms to analytics years ago, so "not provided" is never coming back inside GA itself. The queries live in Search Console now. Performance report, Queries tab, and you can click into a page to see which queries landed on it. If you're on GA4 you can link the Search Console property and get those reports inside GA, which is the closest you'll get to the old view. Just don't expect the numbers to tie out exactly, GSC hides very low volume queries for privacy.