iOS 14 text notification issues

Text notifications / vibration do not work in silent mode with locked screen in iOS 14 on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. However, I get vibration / notifications on my Apple Watch 4, which is also set in silent mode.

An interesting detail is that I can make it work IF I take off my Apple Watch. Then text notifications / vibration work exactly as they should on my iPhone.

Did you see my link just above this? Mine notifications are working now. I don't get the red numbers as to how many calls, texts, etc but I am getting banners both at top of screen & sound. I have new icon pix & widgets. If you used shortcuts there is where you set up the notifications. It is written by Apple.

my original reply is on page 5. But then I got a notice to reply to the discussion just a few minutes ago. Hope it works for you.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251815788?answerId=253485414022&page=5

i have a screen print above also but you have to start out in shortcuts. Then use the 3 dots in the upper right corner & tell it to put on home page & go down to notifications and use the photo for that shortcut.

It was stressful deleting some of my iMessages with family but I deleted everything, did a hard reset and appear to be getting alerts now. Hope this resolved the problem because I missed an important text this morning.

Mine fixed too by turning off the Bluetooth too!! But the problem is if you have your Apple Watch connected it will totally DC after you off your Bluetooth :( kinda annoying ! even I update to iOS 14.2 but it doesn’t help and it only happen when I update to iOS14.2 all the while was fine! Apple pls fix this ****!

Check several items to check:

1. Settings -> Messages -> iMessage should be on.
2. Settings -> Phone -> Notifications -> Sounds (default is Off) select a ringtone.
3. Settings -> Phone -> Incoming Calls and Announce Calls should be set.

I've seen reports of this being fixed in the 14.3 beta. Several users have reported it that are using this public beta. Whether or not they're publicly referencing it is a different story but there seems to be hope.

I think there is no question Apple is now aware of this issue. Whether or not they read these forums, many here have called and opened support tickets with regular, and in some cases Senior, Apple advisors in the last couple weeks and have pointed them here. Multiple tech blogs have covered it and even Twitter and tiktok is crazy with reports. Sadly from beta testers it seems we will have to wait until a release after 14.3 since they reported the issues remain. <Fingers crossed> it’s addressed soon!! I’m one of the lucky ones who this is just a minor irritation and not a business or livelihood interrupter.

if you read this and haven’t, open a support ticket and leave feedback or tweet. The more who do the better off we may be in the end.

After upgrading to 14.3 I tested text notification which wasn't working for me. First test did not work so I did a hard reset of my iPhone 12 mini. Subsequent text test all worked like normal. Today is second day after upgrading to 14.3 and text notifications are still working normally.

My iPhone does not give text message notifications or vibration alerts, unless the BLUETOOTH function is TURNED OFF within SETTINGS (not from control panel). I have gone through countless other strategies to test: reset, sounds and haptics, accessibilities - vibration ON, etc etc etc.

Only when the Bluetooth function is turned off within settings, does this work. Turning Bluetooth off with the Control Panel, doesn't change this (I understand this method doesn't actually tuen off the Bluetooth, but keeps it on and doesn't allow connection to other devices).

This same issue happened 3 years ago with my iPhone 5s. I have done complete reinstalls on that old phone to try and remedy, to no avail, and have done them again with this iPhone 11 Pro while setting up the phone

Please help.

I think I found a solution for apps like WhatsApp, Facebook messenger , gmail and YouTube I wasn’t getting notifications for these and I have tried uninstalling and installing on 14.2 but It didn’t work then but seems to be working on 14.3.

Before doing it for the apps like WhatsApp Try it on Gmail or Facebook cause they don’t need a backup

You have to do perform the following steps

Number one uninstall the app that is having the problem

Turn off the phone

Turn on the phone and install the app again ,it will ask for the permission for notifications select allow notifications

Since my backup for WhatsApp was larger than 5 GB I subscribed to the trial version of Apple one which gave me 50 gigs of iCloud storage and I backed up WhatsApp on it and a other apps which were having the problem and then one by one I reinstalled them

Now all of them are working properly.

The solution works for 14.3 I don’t know about the previous versions

Hope it works for you

I am having the same issue. I’ve noticed if I left the messenger app open but locked the screen I will not get any notifications. If I have it left open in the background and some other app open and lock the screen it is the same thing, no notifications. But if I back out of messages and then close the app I will get notifications. This is the dumbest update apple could do. Both my phones do it and one of my phones is for business that I am on call for and I miss text notifications all the time! Fix this or let us have an option to shut that off!

Running 14.3 on an IPHONE-12 Pro Max and the text bug is still present. I've also tried turning off the Face ID Attention Aware Feature and that did not solve it.

The only dependable work-around is still to either back out of the individual text window to the main chat window or kill the text window completely (swipe it away) after every text (sent or received).

I first saw this issue with my IPhone-X after I installed IOS14.

Had the exact same problem.

The only thing that works is uninstalling and installing the apps again.

I got the free trial of apple one which includes 50Gbs of iCloud and I used that for backup.

trust me

nothing else works.

uninstall and install them again and remember to select “allow notifications” when you reinstall.

Apple has repeatedly stated that we are basically at their mercy. The last 14 iOS update was never promised to fix this issue, and it’s apparent that technicians and developers don’t read these threads. Apple has also said that they don’t know when they’ll be releasing an update with a bug fix for this. I did however see that turning off your Face ID awareness fixes the problem for some people. I haven’t tried it just yet. Apple sure did a bang up job.

Jeez everyone! Whats the problem? Didn't you hear? All you have to do is turn the Bluetooth off and everything works again. Just like it did before you bought it. You didn't really need Blur tooth or all of those accessories anyway. Right?