iOS 14 text notification issues

I am not getting text notifications (sound, banner, badge) every time I receive a text ever since I updated to iOS 14. My iMessages also take a very long time to deliver, sometimes it send right away but most of the time it takes a long time for it to send. I have reset my phone multiple times, even a hard restart and nothing seems to work. I work off of my phone so this is a very frustrating thing! Please advise. Thank you.

I'm wondering when Apple are going to acknowledge this issue. I will wait patiently for a fix as soon as I know one is coming. I did think of upgrading my phone to get rid of this bug, but reading posts here, that wouldn’t have made any difference.

I also toggled off in Settings>Messages...Filter Unknown Senders. That shouldn’t matter but trust me, I was desperate. I’m thinking maybe there’s a bug where it’s not recognizing someone in your contacts. So maybe it “filters” them by not actively showing their notifications. Worth a try. Between that and the iCloud, that worked for me still. Thank God!

I’ve been having this issue for two months now. It’s specific to one person who does not have an iPhone... I never receive notifications for the incoming texts. I’ve tried updating my software, restarting my phone, checking all notification settings... nothing seems to fix it. Very frustrating.

I found that if the VoLTE is turned on, I no longer get my sound notification. I turned this off and it seemed to fix the problem. Settings/cellular/cellular data options/voice & data/VoLTE, turn this off.

Yes, that’s what worked for me. I toggled off messages in cloud AND filter unknown senders. Now I have noticed that it is internment. After trying these yesterday (Thanksgiving), everything worked good all day. Today, it is off and on but only with 1 contact. My next option will be to delete that contact and re-create them in my phone to see if that fixes it permanently.

Another thing I am going to try is unpin (in messages app iOS 14) said contact. Could be an issue with that too. Maybe their texts get automatically opened so to speak when they are pinned (which would be a big of course not by Apple design).

This is also happening to me - though it’s intermittent. Some days it seems to work fine and others I miss texts because of the lack of notifications. For most people is this a constant reproducible problem or is it intermittent. For me it’s not just specific to one contact. I’ve left feedback twice. No point in calling support, since it’s not always reproducible I am sure it would work perfectly when I was on with them.

Ohhh it's always been an intermittent problem for me. I am now trying both settings together.

I had not thought about the pinned contacts. I have six so now I'm gonna pay more attention to which are associated with the bug. That's a good find. Thanks for that.

I'm running with both settings toggled off and I'm actively monitoring the pinned contacts vs unpinned contacts for notification alerts.

I’m also experiencing this problem in my iPhone X. It’s caused some problems with coordinating holiday and work schedules. Apple just caused me to miss Thanksgiving dinner. I work night shift and I worked Thanksgiving. I was getting ready for work and waiting for a message as to when I needed to leave my house... I rely on my phone a lot with my schedule and am really disappointed that something as simple as a text notification has made me realize I can no longer count on Apple products.

I am having the same problem, although my phone completely omits any form of notification of a text sporadically. It doesn’t happen for every text, probably for 5 or so a day. I am under the impression that somebody has completely not responded to my text only to open the chat and find that they did respond and it says that I have read it (which I clearly have not). I seem rude only because I never actually received any notification.

i am also experiencing this and read peoples replies. One person said that Apple told them this was a new feature in the update?? Surely this can’t be right they can’t take away notifying you when you receive a text. If so then apple are going very downhill with their software. The only reason I buy apple is because the software is much better than Android! If they really have made this a new feature I hope they remove it as it is really not helpful!

Surely not?? Did someone at apple really tell you this because if so they’re so stupid. They can’t just take away our phones notifying us of when we get a text message. That’s the whole point of having a mobile! So you can text and know when someone’s replied instead of calling or having to walk to see them!

Some of the solutions I posted recently worked for a few and then they seem to not work. It’s very sporadic. Sometimes I’ll get the text alerts, sometimes I won’t. What I recently did was delete some of my contacts and recreate them. That is working FOR NOW. We will see.

I'm running with icloud messages OFF and Filter Unknown Senders OFF and no joy yet again. Text bug remains. The only thing I've found that remotely works is killing the messaging window after EVERY text which is not feasible even as a short-term work-around.

Also, found yesterday that a known contact that is NOT pinned sent me a text and the alert bug reared it's ugly face.

My text alerts will sometimes work and randomly not work. I'll have unread texts out of nowhere in text windows that my phone thinks they've been "read" even though I didn't know they had arrived as I never got any type of alert. The only way I knew they were missed was because I went to each text window. 🤦🏻‍♂️

thank god im not the only one having this issue. its been driving my crazy. my watch no longer recieves notifications either from text messages. i have found turning off notifications in settings>notifications>messages sometimes allows my watch to get the notification strangely enough. please apple fix this bug.