iOS 14 text notification issues

Hi I’m having the same issue with my iPhone XS Max I had just updated it to iOS 14.3 and now I’m not receiving any sound, vibrations or even banner notifications for Facebook messenger app every other app I still receive notifications including Facebook please help my situation and all others facing it too

Behaviour is very unpredictable. Apps which require login appear to work ok, apart from Facebook and Twitter. Some times they work, some times not. Could not indicate a pattern. For example facebook refuses to pop-up a banner most of the times. Yesterday it was working, today not.

Apps which do not require logins, e.g CNN, Sky News, BBC etc none of them is working.

I tried whatever imaginable and all proposed solutions. I cannot even remember how many times I have restored/backed-up during all the trials and errors.

Texts work fine. Currently on 14.3, 12 Pro Max.

Apple, please, honestly?

I just bought the new iPhone 12 and I’m having the same issue as well. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’m not getting any notification banners on my iphone screen when a text comes in, nor does my phone vibrate or make a sound when a text comes in. I’ve been missing incoming text messages from my contacts because I don’t even realize that a new text came in.

I have this problem with my mother who I've been talking to for years. We'll be having a conversation and I'll get notifications and then I won't and the message shows up as read. It's completely random and I never know when it's going to happen.

I stopped receiving notifications on various applications ; WhatsApp, Instagram, Mail just to name a few. The only way to get my notifications is by opening these applications. This is getting extremely annoying. Is there a way to solve this or revert back to prior to iOS 14?

Update: A much simpler workaround than signing out of iMessage on additional devices. Someone else in the thread has mentioned bluetooth but I apologize that I do not know how to search within a thread to find their username and thank them.

The simpler, less disruptive workaround: Disable new bluetooth connections temporarily, or turn bluetooth off entirely, on either your phone or on all secondary devices in range. Your phone notifications will then work normally.

To temporarily bluetooth connections: in the Control Center, touch the bluetooth icon. When it changes from blue to white, new connections are disabled for 24 hours. To turn bluetooth off entirely, go to Settings > Bluetooth and toggle the bluetooth switch off. Alternatively in Control Center if Airplane Mode is enabled, the bluetooth button there will then function as an on/off. (It is ok to leave wifi on.)

I’ll volunteer an answer. I have a 12 Pro Max, bought in November. Previously had an 8+. Text sounds stopped randomly in September, or whenever iOS 14 came out, so, before my new phone. I have been called by Tier 2 support, he collected analytics from my phone over the course of 3 weeks. He personally couldn’t do anything, he could only send off the analytics to whoever looks at that. He greatly sympathized with me but said the only other thing I could do is a factory reset. I’ve seen others here say that’s no help so I’m not doing that. Other things have happened like the timer not making a sound when time ran out. I’m out of options.

 This is a straight up Apple iOS issue. Been thru a number of reset-all-settings and reload apps. Not an App issue. Even with all app notifications off, iMessages still fail to notify. And it started when I went from iOS 13.something to iOS 14.2. 

My recommendation is to contact Apple Support about the problem. They will eventually tell you to file a "feedback report" to report the bug. You'll need to take that step too, because until they receive a number of these they won't put priority on fixing the issue. If there are any authors on here that can better publicize this issue, that works too.

iOS 15 is supposed to overhaul Notifications. Maybe that will fix what they broke in iOS 14.

i had the same issue and solved it.

you should change password of the iCloud ID being used in the phone (signout of all other devices when prompted) and don’t login that icloud ID into any other device.

hadanjm wrote:

I'm late weighing in on your comment, deggie, but you're right... and wrong. iOS is designed to defer iPhone notifications to the watch when it's being worn. Great design (when it works). But when you remove the watch, the notifications should default back to the iPhone. That aspect is NOT working.

It is supposed to and does for most people. If it doesn't, the problem is likely something with your particular set up or hardware, not a systemic issue. Unfortunately, as you know, issues like that are the hardest to troubleshoot. Apple really can't do much about it as they are unlikely to ever amass enough data (as what we're probably seeing is a bunch of different problems with the same symptom).

Yes, software is very complicated. How many decades have you been writing software?

I haven't told anyone they are doing it wrong. If I take my watch off all of my notifications go to my iPhone. I had lunch with my family yesterday and none of them have watches and all of them are getting their notifications on their iPhones. So as a software developer how do you resolve a problem where on most devices the OS is working but on some devices it isn't? What changes do you make in your OS code to fix this?

This has been happening to me where the badge icon stopped working and I could only get notifications by turning on the banner. I recently got the new iPhone 13 and went to messages and found that badge was off. Turned it on and after over a year it works again!

What seems to have solved this problem for me is signing out of the Messages app on both my Mac and my iPad. You'll know you've successfully signed out of them if they prompt you to "Sign in to iMessage with your Apple ID" when you open them (don't do it!). I have spent hours this evening trying everything I could possibly think of based on this thread, OTHER THAN the drastic steps of completely resetting my iPhone or logging out of my Apple ID everywhere, and signing out of the Messages app on both my Mac and iPad is what seems to have finally solved the problem for me. I hope this helps at least some people who are having this problem.

I’m having the same issues with notifications during a phone call. If I’m on FaceTime the notifications come through. I wish Apple would get this problem fixed. It’s very frustrating.

I also don’t get any notifications while on the phone with headphones