iOS 14 text notification issues

This feels like that there is a fix and Apple is holding back because of dumb policies. This is affecting my business as well as my personal life. Additionally this may not fix the problem, which means were waiting even longer to correct the problem. I think an effort should be made to release 14.3 to me today.

I’m fully convinced that this issue is a combination of conflicting notifications within the newest software between Apple Watch/Bluetooth connection to Air Pods and settings to “announce” text messages and being on an Audio or FaceTime call on the phone. I think there are massive issues across these devices and notification conflicts.

i think a lot of my lack of notification issues are also not a “lack” but the vibration I normally use to notify me is softer and/or non-existent so it makes me think I missed it. This explains why Apple keeps blaming the issue on other things.

Im honestly shocked with how long it has taken Apple to resolve. Which makes me think this is a deep seeded issue within the new shortcut integration as well... not that anyone needs to hear it but it’s just ridiculous to have a device that doesn’t work properly to have ZERO resolution after this much time.

Me as well. I don’t understand how this is A PART of an update. It’s frustrating especially as I rely on text messages as a big part of my business correspondence. My clients are not receiving timely responses.

Hello everybody, got the same issue since 2 days ago on my iPhone X with iOS 14.2 and it got me very frustrated. I think what triggered the bug for me was when I used 'Do not disturb' function for the first time since long time ago. I tried all the possible fixes that worked for others and in the end I updated my iPhone to iOS 14.3 beta and this didn't worked as well. After the update I tried to delete each app that was affected: Whatsapp, instagram and fb messenger, Spark which is my email client worked always fine and wasn't affected by the bug. After installing them again all of them work very fine, as they used to do before this annoying bug. I did all the tests( with app open, app closed from background, display off with app killed from background, etc.) and now all of them work smooth. Hope it helps!

I did the update because my keyboard was lagging when I was texting. This problem started coming up too. I randomly will not get any notification of a new text and it appears like somebody already opened it! It isn’t isolated to one contact, but is for random texts I get. Very frustrating!!

I am having the same issue. I don’t seem to get text notifications.... I reset my network settings and it was fine for a day or two but now gone back to the same problem. My husband is also experiencing the same problem with messages from me...

Me too, this has been happening since I updated to iOS 14.2. Only messages is affected. I have it set to show on the Lock Screen, show banners, and badges. It has happened randomly with all types of messages (text messages, iMessages, group messages) that I get zero notifications and it sits there looking like I’ve already opened and read it. Apple please fix this!!

I have placed feedback (as was suggested early on in this thread) but that clearly has not made an impact at this stage. I am trying to look at my phone less, but now I am having to look at it more to check if I have a reply to a text message. Nearly fired someone because I thought they were ignoring me... Whoops!

I am having the issue only with text message, with various contacts.

I had the same problem since the latest update and did some brainstorming. I went to my messaging settings and switched notifications OFF, and now I actually get notifications. Hope it’ll work for you too!

Adding my situation to the list here - iPhone SE (original) on iOS 14.2 and Apple Watch 6, intermittently not getting text message Notifications on either device, but they do seem to pop up on my iPad (just noticed them on iPad recently, so not yet sure if the missing ones always go there (my first impression was that my iPad was somehow stealing the notification, which didn't make sense at all). Today I spent an hour and a half on phone with Apple Support with no resolution other than wait for 14.1 (after restoring my Watch to New and losing all my data).

After reading this and a few other threads, I'm just going to give up and accept the fact that for foreseable future Notifications won't work. Very frustrating, have had iPhone since the very first early release and never had such basic loss of function

WOW - I see 4,752 people have noted they have this question too!

Adding my situation to the list here - iPhone SE (original) on iOS 14.2 and Apple Watch 6, intermittently not getting text message Notifications on either device, but they do seem to pop up on my iPad (just noticed them on iPad recently, so not yet sure if the missing ones always go there (my first impression was that my iPad was somehow stealing the notification, which didn't make sense at all). Today I spent an hour and a half on phone with Apple Support with no resolution other than wait for 14.1 (after restoring my Watch to New and losing all my data).

After reading this and a few other threads, I'm just going to give up and accept the fact that for foreseable future Notifications won't work. Very frustrating, have had iPhone since the very first early release and never had such basic loss of function

Are u saying to turn off text notifications from the Notifications option in Settings as in:

Settings > Notifications > Messages > Allow Notifications (slide this dial to OFF)

^Is that what you're saying to do?

Kazan96 - I'm a bit confused

Settings--> Messages (no "notify me" there)

or, did you mean

Settings-->Notifications-->Messenger--> Turn off "Allow Notifications"

?

Thank you for your efforts to help here!

Yes but your reply isn't clear. Which path are u using because the path I posted a few minutes ago does not have "notify me" in it.

If I go this route, there is a "notify me" for MENTIONS:

Settings > Messages > Mentions (slide "Notify Me" to OFF)

^^^^ Is that the path u took?

Whenever I am using certain apps I no longer get the vibration or banner notification from my iMessage app. I end up missing messages from minutes to hours ago. I wiped my phone backed it up and reset all the settings. Wtf Apple? I toggle everything on and off. Create a new update. This **** is wack.