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notifications not working ios 13.1.2

Since installing iOS 13.1.2, I do not message notifications on either my iPhone Xr or my watch. Receives are received, but no notifications. I’ve changed settings on both watch and phone, but still no notifications. Is this a known bug? Fix on the way?

iPhone XR

Posted on Oct 6, 2019 4:57 AM

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Nov 28, 2019 4:45 AM in response to Street_Glide

Hello street glide,

Could you say which iPhone please, as different iPhones seem to be having different problems. Newer phones seem to be worse and did this fix 3rd party apps as well for you in Beta, or just apple apps.


After the second update all my apple apps work normally on iPhone 7, but 3rd party such as WhatsApp, messenger and Facebook still no notifications even with 13.3.2.3. actually that’s not strictly true. Occasional I will suddenly get a notification for WhatsApp. Only to see that the message was sent over an hour ago.


Am nervous of trying the Beta incase things get worse.

Dec 15, 2019 12:42 AM in response to Alexis588

iPhone 7.


13.3 hasn’t fixed it for me either. Apple apps work fine but WhatsApp, facebook and messenger ..... no notifications. With WhatsApp sometimes I get a notifications hours after the message has been sent. Didn’t help when my boss sends me a WhatsApp changing the time I start work that night.


whatsapp has updated recently too, so who is not finding and solving this problem, Apple or facebook who now owns WhatsApp.


cant believe I am also considering changing from Apple. Have been a staunch supporter of Apple Mac for years. “Once you go Mac you never go back”. But now I am not so sure anymore. Error and bugs happen, but this has been going on since September. Come on apple help us for goodness sake. It looks like you are not even recognising this problem as I don’t see mention of it anywhere (not even in bug fixes) except here.

Dec 15, 2019 1:42 AM in response to Lynnspain

Update.


Facebook is now giving notifications. I don’t use it and had notifications off on that. Thought if I switched notifications on for all Facebook apps it may trigger something.


I have done resets, switched all notifications off, restarted my phone and switched on again. No luck for WhatsApp. The Random notifications from WhatsApp has me stumped. Have tried a lot of things mentioned here. Except deleting contacts or conversations, ridiculous stuff Like that. Really getting frustrating. 2 friends that I stopped upgrading their phones as soon as I had this prob in September. No probs with their phones. So it is definitely iOS 13 causing this. I had soooo hoped the 13.3 would be our saviour, sadly not.

Dec 15, 2019 5:07 AM in response to siamless

thank you Siamless,

I had put off doing this because of all it entails. having to put all the wifi passwords and the worst, any cards in Apple Pay get deleted. still in desperation today I decided to give it a go.


Still WhatsApp does not work, if I am in the app or it is open in the background after just sending a message, the messages come through. But that is all...


Now my ordinary texts are taking forever to come through, so when I tried to verify cards in apple wallet, by the time I received the text message with the code, the time limit had expired.


so frustrating.


having to use normal texts with any friends that have a iPhone but for my boss its not possible as the same forum ( WhatsApp) is used for all his staff.


switched my phone off and on again and that didn't help either.



Jan 3, 2020 5:51 AM in response to project-52

Having bought 3 new Iphone 11's, I spent over 3 days trying to get the email notifications to work correctly. The notification vibrate or sound only works when the App is opened. Pointless unless you want to spend your whole life checking for new emails.


Apple is clearly aware of this issue so why are they allowed to continue sending out handsets to the likes of Vodafone, O2, EE etc knowing there is a fault ?


I have now reverted back to using Blackberry and have terminated the 24mth contract with my network provider and returned the iPhone 11 handsets. My provider claimed they did not know about this software problem - but they do now !



Jan 3, 2020 9:45 AM in response to bonchien

I did a hard reset and installed as a new phone. Installed whatsapp and only whatsapp and notifications arrived while the phone was locked. After half an hour I did a second hard reset and installed the back up from icloud. The first minutes all seemed to work fine, but again no notifications until I turn on the phone and open the app (whatsapp or mail, etc).

So, will have to wait until Apple do something....





Jan 19, 2020 7:14 AM in response to furkangulsoy

SOLUTION (SORTA) Well, I found out something that may help many of you. I have had (and posted about) my wife's notifications in messages coming through but with no notification at all. It also happened with a handful of my 800+ contacts who text me. I have tried everything posted on this and other sites and nothing has solved getting notifications of her text messages to me. BUT, she tried messaging me to my iCloud EMAIL address instead of my mobile number, and magic! I get her notifications. I know it is not a solution but a work around, but it works. Hope it helps some of you and the other guy who's wife's notifications aren't coming through either.

Jan 28, 2020 10:45 PM in response to Racerhead

I spent 3 hours on the phone with a Senior Support Tech yesterday troubleshooting this. The problem behavior IS intermittent in both frequency and manifestation. Intermittancy appears to be certain, which is actually a huge step forward, and explains the many different behaviors and suspected fixes I’ve read on this thread. The Support Tech believes he isolated the problem to the Watch OS, and has filed a case number to it for engineering.

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