iOS 14 text notification issues

I am having the same issue. Checked all the settings in my phone, did a hard reset, and still nothing. When my phone is locked, I get no notifications for my messages. But my watch and iPad get them. When my phone is unlocked, I get notifications with the text tone associated to the contact. It’ started happening in the last week or so.

I am having the same issue along with when I text another person who also has an iPhone, and also the same update, it will immediately say they read the message as soon as I send it, which then doesn’t notify them when I texted back, and vice versa. Anyone else have the same problem?

I had this problem with my phone since ios 14.2 as well.

it may not work for everyone and it would be a pain if its all contacts

But I had one contact who wouldn’t come through with notifications.

i deleted the text thread, deleted from favorites, and deleted her contact.

I had her text me as if from an unknown number since she wasn’t in my phone.

it worked and had notifications!

was able to readd her to contacts and still works.

So I have sent a DM to Apple support and they have asked me to send them all kinds of screen shots. They have just asked if it’s only effecting text notifications and I’ve said yes. If any of you guys or girls have Twitter I would the same so they know how many people this is effecting. I will post more once they come back to me

Sorry should have been more clearer they asked me to send them screen shots of the settings on my phone. Eg message settings, do not disturb settings.

I did say other day that there is a forum on Apple support and a lot of other people are having the same issue so I doubt it’s anything we have done. It will be some kind of bug in the last update that’s caused this. We can’t all possibly be having the same issue and it’s just a setting that’s off in our phones.

So I have had just had the below back from Twitter support

You are correct. Thanks for confirming. Because this is only happening with text messages and iMessage, we wanted to let you know that we’ve heard reports of the issue you're describing, and it’s currently under review. We don’t have a solution at this time, but recommend that you keep your device up-to-date using Software Update.

thought I would let you all know 👍🏻

Good to know that Apple have at least "heard reports of this issue". Perhaps their next step might be fix it.

As for their recommendation to keep device up-to-date! It was last update that started this going wrong on my phone.

I would be happier going back to phone as it was prior to this update!

Thanks posting this latest snippet of news.

I’m having the same issues. I have a 10S, and it’s updated to iOS 14.2. I noticed the issue starting with the update, and it’s mostly with SMS texts from androids. I’ve restarted my phone a LOT, and I’ve turned the iMessages on and off several times. I saw that they came out with an update for iPhone 12s but not any other phone.

Same issue here. The Apple feedback form is extremely frustrating because, as another user stated, it doesn't even account for the latest iOS. I rely on my phone for work and everyday life. To not know when my messages will randomly decide to stop notifying me that someone has contacted me is beyond problematic. I kept thinking Apple would figure this out and address it ASAP but that was apparently asking too much. This truly needs to get resolved.

This is detrimental and hurting my business. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP! I am not getting notifications from numbers that are not "iphone" I signed up with Redfin to receive Real Estate leads and they send out a mass message and whoever replies YES first gets the lead. I am not getting notifications everything is on the highest volume possible and it still DOES NOT notify me. Guess who's not getting leads????

I have the same issue and at first I thought it was my phone and then my husband said he was experiencing the same thing then I went online and looked it up and saw him hundreds are having the same issue since the update. Absolutely HATE it, it’s so annoying and frustrating especially when I’m waiting for a reply and I think they haven’t and I go into the conversation and they did reply. I WANT the notifications for text or the notification in general to go back to normal!!!!

Im having the same issue. I called and spoke to someone and they said a ticket was opened on December 3rd for this issue and to basically wait for a update. But the more people of call in and complain the quicker they will move it up the list.

14.2.1 software here with the regular iPhone 12 and this is happening. Getting super annoying. No banner notification, no sound or vibration, no notification in the top right corner of the widget, nothing even within the app to suggest a new message was received. I’ve missed SO many important messages because of this and it’s getting old.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and iOS 14.2.1 (the latest update at this time.) Every now and again I’ll get a sound notification and vibration for a text sometimes and other times I won’t even know that I have a text message waiting until either my Apple Watch reminds me or I open my phone to see a red notification on my SMS messaging app. Is there any update here as to what Apple is doing to fix this bug? The point to having a phone is so that you can be reached anywhere, at anytime by a noise and or vibration. This is aggravating especially on a brand new phone.

When I filed my complaint/feedback with Apple just a few minutes ago, I wasn’t even given the option to select the most up to date iOS 14.2.1 the latest option available was 14.1 so that kind of clues me in that they’re behind. According to a couple things I’ve read they intentionally wrote this into the update, why is beyond me. The point of having a phone is to be reached anytime, anywhere for any reason and this hinders that. From what I have found, originally the latest update was meant for the 12 mini’s in response to screen responsiveness, however all other 12 models have been the fall outs. I haven’t even had this phone 2 weeks and now this is what I’m dealing with, let’s hope they get it together and repair this bug.