iOS 14 text notification issues

Shawniemarie wrote:

Notice how Apple hasn’t made a peep about this either, as widespread as it is.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple's participation here is minimal. And, based on the fact that there aren't a huge number of threads on this issue, it's probably not as widespread as it feels like. Unfortunately, based on reading this thread, people aren't reporting one problem. They are reporting one set of symptoms that have several (or more) causes.

If everyone who has a problem reports it to Apple (see the Get Support link a the top right of every page of these forums), it's possible that Apple will start to get enough data to resolve some of the issues.

Well... I hoped you may be onto something, terskac. Given your thoughts about one device at a time, I powered down my iPad (but just left my MacBook Pro asleep), and then started sending texts from my wife's iPhone. Whaaaat? I started getting notifications on my iPhone repeatedly. So, then I turned the iPad back on and resumed sending me texts. Amazingly, notifications persisted on my iPhone. And they appeared also on my iPad... but inconsistently. Sometimes just popping up, sometimes chiming. Apple just can't seem to figure out how to handle multiple devices.

Unfortunately, even this solution failed later, even with the iPad powered off and after setting my iPhone to not forward messages to my iPad. So, back to TURNING OFF BLUETOOTH to keep notifications coming (my only reliable solution).

Like all of us on this post, I've been fighting this for nearly a year now when my iPhone 11Pro is locked. I was hoping iOS 15 would fix it, but you're saying it doesn't. Blast it, Apple!

This makes me think that I may have only been missing notifications on my iPhone when I was actually using my iPad or Mac at the time, since I had alerts for messages disabled on them. I also noticed the handoff indicator showing on the Messages icon on my Mac once, so maybe this problem also had something to do with handoff. I’m not going to try to verify any of that, since signing out of my Apple ID in the Messages app on both my Mac and iPad seems to have solved the problem for me, which is fine with me since I never really used Messages on them anyway.

i had that problem i deleted the messages of that person and it fixed it

i Just got off the phone with a senior advisor. He tested it with his phone and it’s doing the same thing. He then went into his resources from the apple engineers and he confirmed it’s a known bug.

Just downloaded 14.2 Beta version and notifications are now working once again

Update to Beta 14.2 or wait for it to come out following release of new iPhone 12

Solution

Delete all your IMessage conversations then hard reset your iphone

Let Apple know here

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

If you stay in a text message thread and don’t go back to your list of text messages from everyone, you won’t always receive notifications. This is the only way I’ve been able to fix it.

Tweet Apple support also and get in their DM’s

Same problems. iPhone 11 (iOS 14.2) / Watch SE (watchOS 7.1)

Workaround: Quit iMessage to the conversation list before Standby Mode

It‘s very annoying...

Sorry to hear this. Have you got Twitter? If so, you can direct message Apple support and they can investigate it further with you.

I understand that. Maybe you could try and update to 14.4 beta-1 to then see if that makes a difference?

How about if you reinstall the OS through a computer?